New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-06
CIVIL NOTES.

Mrs. Minnie +. Wheeler has brought an
action in the Brooklyn City Court to obtain IN absolute
divorce from her husband, Edward H. WAecler Il pro
ducc merchant IN SDuth-st. TINS cry.
I'm the suit of Mrs. Augusta A. Topping for
an absolute divorce from her husband. Clarence n.
Topping. Judge Pratt, in the Kings County supreme
Court. yesterday, denied a motion Tor a decree OF
divorce
Mrs. Catherine Roe, Of Washingtonville,
East Chester brought suit ut White Pains against
husband, ia. recovered $500. The Judge allowed her
) per cent ddlitlonal.
Judge Lawrence denied yesterday, in SUI
preme Court Circuit the motion 10 set down for early
trial the suit Of Cornelius j. Vanderbilt against William
H. Vanderbilt Tor 81 100000, the alleged promise being
based on the validity OF commodore N"hdeioAts WILL
and that be. NJ yet IN dispute
The trial of the Kings County Charities
Commissioners concluded Yesterday in Brooklyn.
Judge Gilbert in charging jury, SAID that the ques
ton ior the jury consider was whether the Commits
acted m good fatih or bad tlth The jury could
agree and was discharged.
An objection WAS taken yesterday to the
proceedings In foreclosure suit before Judge Brady
that A. L. Burns did not appear to have been served
Rut I, WAS m wercd how was one 20 ascertain which Of
the 49, Burns in the directory knew the defendant
That" SIiu Judge Brady, " mlght have been learned
by general rouha7rdilon'
In the suit by EleanOra Ferguson, on pol
icy Of insurance obtained tho lite OF Israel Ferguson
judge lfIcmOIC, III OhhlIOl liO'tsi 4Ial ltEll us
missed yesterday. the complaint. The policy contained
tho u-utl clause against scltmurdrr Ferguson was
found hang ny in Central Park indcr circumstance
showing suicide Judge LarremOre held tudt as there
evidence showing tat Ferguson was insane, the
clause applied.
Surrogate DALEY, of Brooklyn, recently re-
lccted i've wills made ny David rrsOu. eccentric
lawyer who died last February at New Rochelle. All
the wills were contested on the ground Of insanity.
IN peculiar feature Of each was the setting apart Of
10000 for the support education and maintenance Of
TWO detitutc white fsmaic orphan children" sixth
will was offered for probate yesterday. 1t made
September 1856 aud by it all the tesfa,Ors property
WAS bCqueathed 10 ms Wlte Tue surrogate Issued a
citation returnable December Is.
The Will of Mary Munro, filed for pro bate
I'm ,hc surroyatr's Office Yesterday, dcysrs $1,000 to
Dr. JOAN A. McyIcar OF New-York 81 900 to Corandt
Irving; $500 to Helen j. Irving; 5000 to Francis r.
Irving; 800 each to her nephew Petor Munro and her
niece Rather Munro 81 900 e. her nepnrw william
~ D.aWcv E; 500 to the Orphans Home ~ the Prot
csJaut Episcopal CHurci or Ncw-Iorh $1,000 10 the
Board FOrcisn Missions OF cue Presbyterian Church
IN the United States. The remaind,rot the estate Is
y.u TO the niece Oi tie teslatlX, Margaret Rochester,
OF Buffalo.
Judge Van Worst has fled an important
opnon IN The of LucrS, administrators, against
Buuues raised by tn demurrer, OF OF the defend
ants lie holds that where have been removed
and h'Ir place administrators with will annexed.
appointed the securities uf the pass without any
formal written assignment by the displaced executors
ana that II 10 SUN TENT To acge huJ plaintiffs hold
TUE from i'll Wy oPctdlloH VI iaN
question comes up The foreclosure OF mortgage for
| $4,000 on the snglr-hOuSc property IN Canal and
Washn gOusts ana tue tOurt OYrrrules the
George +. Martens aud Horace SCCOr, IT,. appeared I
s1ppurl OF the demurrers, and Elliott +. shepard In OF
| POSITION
! The suit of Mary f. Lechtweiss against
Hans TrcsRow ended in "a double blow the defendant
The plainnn sucd for 5000 damages for breach OF
promise TrcskOw had denied his promise OF marriage
In his Yesterday witness stand. before
Judge Donohue, he admitted that he might have
| promised 10 marry the plaintiff Judge Donohue On