The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-04-24

49, - 5000 Va pOlJuyi uHu HlS
term of imprisonment in the Peni.
Tertiary fixed at one year, moved for
an arrest Of judgment, which after
being deliberately argued, and con.
sidered by the Court, was allowed,
and Casey discharged, but he having
been heretofore found guilty of Petit
Larceny, the Court proceeded to
sentence him upon that charge Ak
ing his term Of confinement in the
County Jail, at five months. 1t is
the Intention Of the Prosecutor, we
understand, to have Casey brought
before some Justice on a warrant for
perjury, and have him sent on to
await the action of the Grand Jury,
next fall. So it will be seen that
Casey is not out of the woods yet.
A negro boy named Anthony, with
rather an intelligent face, was found
guilty of the charge of an assault
with intent to disfgure, disable and
main, white boy in Mason City,
and was by the Court sentenced to
two years hard labor in the Peniten.
tiary. Anthony's Counsel moved
the Court for a new trial, upon the
ground that the evidence did not
warrant the jury in finding such a
verdict as they did, but the Court
overrulcd the motion, and young
Anthony will render the State some
service at Moundsville.
Quite a number of civil cases were
disposed Of, amongst the number be-
ing that of Fred Ford and others VS..
the Clifton Coal Co., the plaintiffs
being non,suited. Thus ends for the
time being, a case which has excited
considerable feeling in this section,
between the party litigants thereto
and their friends.
The case of Geo. Lewis VS.. Ander-
son Wooten involving the pay for
5000 oil barrel slaves, placed or
claimed to have been placed on the
kanawha River Bank, at the mouth
of Longs lane, in December, 1876, by
the plaintiff, Geo. Lewis, in accor.
dance with the term of contract
entered into between him and Woo
ten, and washed away before Wootcn
could get possession of them, by the
freshet in January, 1877, was again
tried, the jury being out about two
days, and finding verdict for the
plaintiff for something over $500.
A motion was made by defendants
attorney to set aside the verdict, they
charging by affidavit that Lewishad
attempted, and had attempted to get
others to tampcr with the jury, but
the Court said there was nothing in
the affidavit to show that any one
had tempered with the jury, and
consequently, the verdict should re-
main as it was. The Court also re-
marked, that the plaintiff for his
indiScretcness should be punished
severely, but Wooten's attorneys did
not press the matter or it would have
been done.
There is a drama now being play
ed with extraordinary success on the
stages Of the Theatres in the leading
cities Of the United States and En-
rope, called "a celebrated case" but
We have one in this county that can
rival, if not excel it. We refer to
the celebrated case" of Vim. II.
Clarke vs.. G. w. Burlington, both well
to do neighboring farmers residing
on Graham Station Bottom. 1t is
an action of cjectment, and involves
the ownership of about an acre of
ground, worth, as we are Informed by
one of the litigants, $500. 1t ap-
pears as before stated that Clark and
Burlington own adjoining farms, and
that there is n lane between them,
running from the river, commencing
as Clarke claims, at a forked syca-
more stump and running back to
the hill distant about mile and n
quarter. Clarke claims the centre
of the lane as the true line between
him and Burlington, and Burlington
claims that the entire lane laps over
on his land, or in other words, that
he ought to have the whole of the
lane. The case has been given to
the jury at two Courts, after numer.
Gus witnesses had been examined
both pro and con, and exhaustive
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