Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-20
Washington County Court.
uo, rIuo p RFDFIELD, Chief judge, IfeslalnE
t ia,i' MIL ARD \ MARTIN, Assistant Iu9-e'
Hon. PHILANDER RIFoRD, Assistant ,s.ny 'u'se
FRANK PLUMLEY. states ATTORNEY
JoHN L. FUTILE. Sheriff
MFTvIILE r. SMILE, CLERK,
THO p MERBGLL, Deputy CLERK

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Henry OyIArT, Reporter II
The iury term of the court came to an {
end Yesterday afternoon. This morning
The court took a recess till next Wednes-
lav when divorce cases, etc, will be tried
Thi, has been the shortest and most unlm-
portant term for many years.
Under the rule of court the new docket
was callel Saturday afternoon last In
the law docket there are l2G new entries
and in the ehancery docket 63. Among
the new entries are 10 libels for clvorce'
as follows:
Eliza Lamson of Lowell, Mass, VS.. Dan
iol + Lamson of Plainfeld, for desertlon;
GEORGE ID. Marstin of Mortified VS.. Emma
NJ Marstn, for desertion, intolerable Sc
verityand adultery; Irena NJ. Goodell OF Cal
ais vs.. Lemuel r. Goodell, for intolerable |
severity; Eva A. Wiley of Berlin VS.. Leon
ard L. Wiley of Barre, for intolerable Sc
verify and refusal to support John II. feck
of East Montpelier VS.. Florence G. Peck OF
Newport, for intolerable severity; Bessie |
|. Marsh of Roxbury VS.. George A. Marsh,
for intolerable severity; Josie a. Rich oil
Berlin VS.. Hollis L. Rich, for intolerable
severity and adultery; Jennie l.. Batchel-
der of Plainfild VS.. Jacob Batchelder, for
intolerable severity and refusal to support
Edwin Lane of Plainfeld VS.. Lille Il. Lane
of Hardwick, for adultery; Lille +. Lane
VS.. Edwin Lane, for intolerable severity
and adultery; Abbie S. Teachout VS.. Ava
NJ. Teachout, for intolerable severity;
Roxana a. Stanton OF Calais VS.. Isaac M.
Stanton, for intolerable severity and refus-
al to support; Sarah A. Perkins of Cabot
VS.. Charles Perkins, for intoerable severi-
tv; Abigail Snow of Montpelier VS.. Robert
B. Snow, for intolerable severity, refusal
to support and adultery; Mary j. Cree OF
Marshield VS.. Orrin w. Cree, for intoler-
able severity; and w. F. Wardner of Rox-
bury VS.. Jennie l.. Wardner, a petition to
annul the marriage chiefly on the ground
that the said Jennie, the same being the
victim of an alleged assault in this village
Il short time since, was married to another
man ut tile time of her marriage to the Pc
titioner; William A. Witherill of Duxbury
VS.. Marietta Wtheril of Granville, for adul-
terry; Wesley Z. Dana of Warren VS.. Mary
j. Dana of Waitsfield, for adultery; Au-
custa Brown of Warren VS.. Henry Brown
alias Bisby of Warren, for intolerable Sc
verify and refusal to support.
In addition to these instances of conju-
Gal infelicity there are ten continued from
the last term of court, making in all %.
The states attorney had assigned the
following cases, criminal in their nature,
for trial on Thursday, but they were dis
posed of yesterday afternoon without trial {:
Against Lawrence, Preston, late of
Montpelier, (two complaints) for lilo gally
selling liquor; against Samuel e, Forrest
| L. and Nellie c.. Green, now of Marshfield,
for setting fire to the barn Of Gideon Burn
ham in Woodbury. in the fall of 1875; Gin
this case the jury failed to agree after a
long trial of the same last September) ;
against Charles Spaulding, for forgery !;
against Thomas Bruidnell and j. A. Lock
| lin, each of Montpelier, for selling liquor
against Mary Kendall, late of Warren for
keeping house of ill-fame; against William
Chaplin of Calais, for assault and battery
against John Sweeney and James Sweeney,
each of Waterbury, for assault and battery
against Hiram Pratt Of Warren, for selling
liquor; against Joseph Robert of Waits
field, for larceny; against Lyman Potter
of Marshlield, for adultery.
The case against Thomas Bruidnell was
nolprossed; j. A. Locklin pleaded guilty
to one first offence and was fined ten dol
lars and COSTS Hiram Pratt pleaded guilty
TO fourteen first offences and was fined one
hundred and forty dollars and costs. Mary
Kendall's bonds, three hundred dollars
were called and forfeited. The rest of the
cases assigned were continued.
John DAILY of Cabot having requested
the filing of an information against him
self by the states attorney, pleaded guilty
TO stealing two hundred and fifty dollar:
from his employer, John Bolton of Cabot
on the 18th of last February and was sen
fenced to three years in the state 5 prison
In the case of Harriet l.. Walcott VS..
Charles Lawrence, which was reported
in last weeks issue, the jury went ou
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morn
: inc returned IL verdict in favor Of the de
PENDANT to recover his costs.
The trial of the case, George l.. Newton
VS.. Edward Richardson only involved tb'
assessment of damages, Judgment having
been given to the plaintiff ut the last Sept
term of the court. 1t appeared that New
ton was ut work on and about the 25tt
and Goth days Of September, 1870, in TIN
+ stables of General p, Z. Pitkin of this vii
lage, which are situated on the east banl
of the North Branch, where he was seel
from the back part of the defrpdants hous
by the defendant and his family in the nc
Of indecently exposing his person, as wa
claimed by the dcfeuce. Dat of the us
/, & II, .
' The Jury returned IL verdict for the plainti
D to recover $32, 80 damages and costs.
D The next case tried was S. S. Kelton,a
n ministrator, VS.. the town of Marshtield
, and was Il suit to recover damages for tn
= death of one Samuel Eaton who was kille
by the falling of II bridge over which h
!. was drawing lumber on the 16h day G
! August 1876 The plaintiff claimed thu
the bridge was out of repair and the off
GERS of the town had not properly invest
gated its condition. The town officers o
the other hand claimed that there wa
= nothing about the bridge which could b
u detected as unsound under the most care
full inspection. After most careful trii
the Jury returned verdict to the defent
h ant town to recover its costs.
# Next was the case of A. L. Howard "
- Robert Dewey. The plaintiff claimed tn;
y on the 9th day of July. 1876, the plainti
u was driving down Middlesex street in tn
village and just rs he was turning int
= State street he claimed that the defendan
v who was then about eight years old, IN
, who was then playing with some 9th,
= boys on the common, fired II small toy pi
at tol and thereby so frightened his horse thu
~ he jumped to one side, broke down one
the wheels to his carriage and threw hi
s, out, breaking his leg and injuring him
n other ways, The chief claim of the d
fence was that the accident was caused /
70 the reckless driving of the plaintiff an
~ several witnesses were called who su
iu stanciated this claim, and that the iirir
III of the toy, which was not claimed to hit,
y been done with any malicious intent,
's no way contributed to the accident. I'll
jury, after being out eighteen hours faile
T. to agree. 1t is understood that they stoo
T. i've for the plaintiff and seven for the d
PENDANT from first TO last
y George w. Eaton VS.. Joseph D. Greg
a. ry. apt. On the 10Th of August, 1873, Ii