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Supreme Court Decisions.

Supreme Court Decisions.
 Recent decisions by the Supreme Court of
 Errors were received by Arthur D. Osborne, ] clerk of the court, yesterday. Following are l the decisions received:
 Elliott Pulford's Appeal from Probate.- New trial not advised; Carpenter, judge. This was appeal from the allowance of $350 to David Pulford by the Court of Pro- bate of the district in which Southbury is To- cated. Pulford claimed that the Norman Pulford estate owed it to him. A committee of the Superior Court reported there was nothing due, and Judge Culver at the Janu- ed the report The decision sustains him. The question in the case was this The com mittee admitted in evidence paper pur- porting to be statement of the appellants claim, when two suits, growing out of this and a counter claim by the deceased, were instituted but not pressed before jus tice of the peace. The defendant objected on the ground that this paper was placed in the hands of counsel and never produced by him until the trial of this case, when it was produced under objection, and that 1t was in the nature of a confidential communication to an attorney and not admissible
 Lucy A. Morse vs. Borough of Fair Haven. Manifest error; reasons by Park, c. J. This was an action brought to recover damages for injury to the plaintiffs dwelling by water carried by drain laid across a road by the borough. The defendant demurred. Judge Paroee heard the arguments in the Court of Common Pleas and overruled the demurrer, which was urged on the ground that the borough had no notice as provided by the statute. The hearing in damages was before JudO6 Harrison and he tha Io1aIntiH $250.
 Henry Plumb vs William w. Stone ct ux. No error and new trial not advised req sons by Granger, J. This was an action to recover for fancy goods sold In the Court of Common Pleas a jury rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover $1O4. 19 from William w. Stone, but for the defendant Sarah c. Stone, to recover her costs from the plaintiff. The decision sustains this The plaintiff claimed that the credit was given to the wife, but the courts find this not to be so on the evidence.
 The Albany Brewing Company vs. Town of Meriden.-Advise that the petition be dis missed; reasons by Pardee, J. This was a petition for the removal of two tax liens for about $221 on the property in Meriden owned by Brady and Gragan previous to the sale of the Brewing Company The liens were for their taxes. The company claimed the liens were not put on until over a year after the taxes were due; that the real estate under the circumstances of this case cannot be held and sold for taxes until the other es- tate of the deinquents (and it was alleged they had other property Is proceeded against, and also that there was Q mortgage prior to the liens. The case was reserved by the Court of Common Pleas
 Ida E. Hull vs Alfred G. Hine, trustee of the insolvent estate of William H. H. Mur- ray. No error, and new trial not ordered. Reasons by Loomis, J. This decision sus- tains that of Judge Cowell in the Court of Common Pleas, and leaves the title to seven of the Murray brood mares, stallions and colts in Miss Hull, the minister's sister-in- law and manager. The question was as to the admissibiIity of evidence. Miss Hull testified that Mir. Murray gave her the horses in payment for services on the farm, Nelson w. Murray testified that she never claimed them, and that Will liam H. H. Murray had always been their owner. To rebut this the plaintiff intro duced the stock book of the farm. Oppo- site each of the horses names was this sen tence in Mir. Murray's hand '.The proper ty of Miss Ida E. Hull, of Guilford" The defendant claimed this could not be admitted to rebut Nelson w. Murray's testimony, but the court ruled otherwise, and the highest tribunal in the State sustains the ruling The action was one of replevin, the animals having been attached by some of the creditors of the estate
 The Supreme Court have yet a number of cases to decide.
 City COurt-CrininaI Side-Judge Pardee.
 John T. Allen, breach of the peace, iudg- ment suspended; Bridget De Yarmond, theft, $6.o4 costs, two weeks in jail Thomas Hea- ley, theft from the person, probable cause found; William J. Hyland, fast driving con- tinued to July 24.