The New York herald., 1879-02-07
with instructions to be discharged when they should

with instructions to be discharged when they should
deliver sealed verdict.
against Augustus H. Wilton to recover $4,000
loaned January 16, 1861 for which there was left
as collateral security worth OF @ oonds
agent OF II. j. Kimball x Co. On the trial. before
Judge Donohue. the complaint was dismissed; The
General Term reversed this decision ana ordered u
second trial. which took place yesterday, pefore
Judge Van Brunt. and resulted in an aihrmance OK
the Judgment before Judge Donohue.
young Frenchman. named Justin Pettit1ean, en-
Tered the Jewelry establishment OF Ritton, Doer-
nlhger CO.. No Is John street. on the 2sth ult;
ana on the strength OF the representation that he had
customer received pair of gold bracelets. He
pawned them for s2S and was thereupon arrested
the same person who. two weeks before had been in
trusted by Downey Smith, of No. So East Seventy
had failed to return them When arraigned yester-
day by Assistant District Attorney Bell in tho Court
OF General Sessions he pleaded guilty but in view Of
him to the Elmira Reformatory.
On motion yesterday before Judge sinnott, in
Marine Court. Chambers in relation an attachment
which had been issued and executed on a saloon one
of the counsel in the made the statement that
the Sherffs men were getting from $50 to s35 n dav
from the defendant for permitting HIM to keen tle
place open for business Counsel also stated that
the claim on which the attachment was issued WAS
for little S7O0. and defendant being anxious to
pay as to be relieved from the attachment asked
for statement of tho additional costs of the levy
when he was startled by the announcement that the
whole would be 81 400. This sum he was not
quito 30 willing to pay ana has not done
Judge freedman, IN the superior Court, special
Term. yesterday, rendered a very lengthy and
elaborate opinion in the suit OF Magdalena Renniei
against Jacob Muller and others. The action ia
brought to possession Of the rents and profits
of real estate in this city from Jacob Muller and the
matter came before the Court motion for an in
junction to restrain Muller from paying such
rents to the alien next of kin of Carl Hafner. de-
ceased. The plaintiff claims to be the sole heir capa
ble under the law, of taking by inheritance while
the other hand it is asserted that she is not cit
of the United States that she had not lived five
years in the country at the time OF the death of the
intestate and that in fact she was not twenty-one
years old ut the time Judge Freedman after discuss
ing at length the many different questions of law in
volved finally granted the injunction.
John Nj. Jordan. by his guardian. has brought
suit in the Superior Court against Henry G. Bowen.
proprietor OF the Indepfdent to recover $4,000 dam
ages for injuries received The plaintiff who was
employed by the defendant in October, 1873, ~ o
press-feeder charges that account of the defec-
tive machinery used in the defendants Office and
without any negligence on his part, his arm was
caught in one OF the revolving cylinders and so
crushed and mutated as to incapacitate him from
work and render him disabled f. life. The defence
is that when the plaintiff taken in the defend
ants employ 1t upon representations that he
was q skilled workman, and that quite the contrary
true. and that, moreover, the accident was
caused by his own negligence. The case is now
trial before Judge Sedgwick and will probably oc-
cupy a day two. Messrs. Richard OGorman and
David T. Gyner appear for the plainti. and Messrs.
Nash & Holt for the defendant.