Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-14
TILE C0ERTS

UNCUT SOURT-JU0ge HUMP
Yesterday, Peter Schram and wife vs. J
Ford Thompson; trial resumed; verdict for
plaintlif for $462T4; appeal on exceptions
Cox vs. Kendall; Judgment for defendant
pany; Judgment set aside, and stricken from
| calendar. owen VS.. kraak: award approved,
and Judgment: LSnahan VS.. Douglas: dis
missed by court. Huth VS. KinSinger: verdict
for defendant: damages 800. Howe Machine
company VS.. Maria l.. Townley and e. T
Gibbons. verdict for defendant: damages
5000. thompson VS.. Sharp ct al; dismissed
by court.
EQUITY CoURT-Judoe Macarthur.
Yesterday Church VS.. Howell; trustees re-
mort ratified conditionally. Tuomey VS.
sweet; commission appointed to take ties
herd: sale ratified finally. DOOley VS.. Fifth
ward building Association; rule issued,
returnable June 18th. Fowler VS.. Kelley: pro
Myers; trustees bond approved. Parsons vs.
Parker; decree reviying cause, with leave to
amend. Iouhy VS.. Bigelow; decree TO be pre-
pared. Washington Market company VS..
Leese; decree of sale. Smith VS.. Dundore !:
bill dismissed with costs. Jones vs. Jones ct
al; reference to auditor. Grant VS.. f. s. & T.
company; order for production of defendants
books before auditor.
PROBATE COURT-RegiSter Webster.
Yesterday the will of Elizabeth Dabney was
ADMITTED to probate. special bond $50, by N.
ton; executor gave bond in 500. Estate of
Jane 6: Moss second and final account of
executor passed.
POLICE CoURT-Judge Smell.
Yesterday, Henry Lindsey, loud and bois.
ferrous; S.. Molly Hall street profanity: S.
Charles jackson, loud: s.. David SpeakeS
was sent down for vagrant and tramp. Wise
Williams. another of the same sort, was sent
to the farm for thirty days. Sam Shekells, an
o!d thief and tramp, was sent to labor on the
farm for ninety days Frank Ray and Thomas
M. Mckenney, two nice-loOking young men,
were charged with ARRAY on 10th street, near
ID street. Offcer Jones caught them striking
out at each other from the shoulder Both
men were under the influence of liquor: IS
each. Thomas Banks, larceny of some scrap
iron, pleaded guilty: thirty days in jail. Hen
rietla tIless pleaded guilty to an assault on
a threatening letter followed this assault de-
PENDANT was required to give personal bonds
of 500 to keep the peace towards Sarah for six
months. No testimony was taken: Ruth
bonds to keep the peace. GustavuS Broche
and Victor Archited were up for ARRAY: the
hrst- named was fined s. or fifteen days in jail,
and AIchited dismissed. Noble Peterson, lar,
ceDy OF pair of shoes: continued He was
caught by Officer Dubois. Joseph Anderson,
assault on Jeremiah Brown; s.. Mark Scott
DERBY house; an appeal was noted and 500
bonds fixed.
AFFRAY BETWEEN FATHER AND son.
Herman c. Mattern, a young man, was ar
ralgned on the charge of assault and battery
on his father, John &. Mattern. The father
testified that he keeps cigar store in the
n0ltnern portion or the city: his son has
great fancy for doing carpenter work and
neglects his cigar making to do jobbing work
in the store. Yesterday he got to work at his
carpentering. and witness ordered him to stop
it aud go to work making cigars. He refused
TO do ii. and got into a passion and drew a
pistol and fired 1t at witness, the ball Ca large
sized Derringer taking effect in his left breast,
making wound, but did not enter He was
afraid of him, as he had made threats. The
son, who was in the dock, testified in behalf
OF himself that he was repairing a window i'm
the shop, when his father came home drunk
and commenced quarreling with his mother
and witness was afraid he was going to beat
her, as he was very quarrelSome and deSper-
ate. Witness went into the room and told his
father that he must lot hurt his mother, as
she was weak and sickly. His father threw a
piece of board at him, which he lodged, and
he then threw some weights at him and
clinched witness to thrust him out of DOORS
Witness had the pistol in an inside vest peck
e., and during the struggle between them it
fell out on the floor and was accidentally dis
charged. He then left the house, and was soon
arrested. The case was postponed to hear the
evidence of DR.. Adams, who was called in to
see the old man