Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-30
IN COUkT.
rne First Weex Of Common Pleas

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BEFORE JUDGE LIVINGSTON.
Henry Gocbley, William Good, Samuel
Dillman and Elias Deibler W. Susanna
Graybill and Isaac c.. Graybill, her hus-
band, and Elizabeth Keplinger and
Rachael Richwine, issue derisarit eel non,
to try the validity Of paper purp0rting
to be tho last will and testament of Martin
Bear, deceased. late of East Earl township.
The plaintiffs simply produced the will in
evidence and then rested.
The defense then called witnesses to
show that Martin Bear at the time of
making the will was not Of sound mind
and understanding, nor was he able to
consistently conduct his own business or
in condition to nationally dispose Of his
estate. On trial.
BEFORE JUDGE PATTERSON
William Morris vs. John N. Read,
action of ejectment, to recover house and
lot on Locust street, between Third and
Fourth streets, in the borough Of COlum-
bia, and bounded on the west by Market
street, which, tho plaintiff alleges, the de-
fendant holds unlawfully. The plaintiff put
in evidence a deed of conveyance, which
is dated April, 1868, from John N. Read
and wife, to Joseph NJ. Watts for 81 900,
and another deed of the same kind from
MIR. Watts and wife to the plaintiff for the
sum of 81, 10, and dated April 1881. At
tho time of this sale the defendant Occu
pied the property, and when asked to sur
render it he refused to do 90. after tho
sale to the plaintiff. This action is brought
in consequence.
The defense went on to show by parOl
testimony, that at the time of the alleged
conveyance to Jos. Watts Read owed q man
named Keller $1,000, and to satisfy this
Watts, who is Reads uncle, loaned him
the money, and the judgment from Keller
was marked transferred to Watts. The
money which Watts advanced was not in
the shape of a purchase money, but only
as q loan, which fact Watts informed Mrs.
Read of in order to induce her to join her
husband in tho deed of conveyance that
was given only as security to secure Mr..
Watts for the money advanced.
It was shown that for four years after
the alleged loan Read had paid to Watts
interest on tho $1,000 loan, and that.
therefore, the whole amount now due to
Mr.. Watts was 81, 600, debt and interest,
which defendant offered to pay upon a
recOnveyance to him of the property in
question. The defense further proposed
to show that at the sale of the property
in 1880, by NJ. Watts, notice was given by
Read that the property did not belong t0
Mr.. Watts, but was owned by him (Read)
and any attempt to get possession of the
property, under . conveyance from Watts,
would be resisted.
Current Business
The court yesterday announced that aI
adjourned quarter sessions court would be
held in October, to commence ON Monday
the 3Oth. Jurors for this and other courts
will be drawn Monday.
Additional Viewers Appointed.
The following road viewers, in addition
to those on our fourth page, have beer
appointed
For public road in Paradise township
beginning on the White Oak and Whit
Hall road and ending on the road from
Strasburg to Mine Hill: John II. Brack
bill, s. 8. Hess and John Hildebrand.
For q public road in Strasburg town
| ship, beginning on the road bstweel
Farmers school house and the Green Tre'
and ending ON the Strasburg and Whit.
Oak road John H. Brackbill, s. s. He's
and John Hildebrand.
For vacating part of the road in Caez
narvOn township from Peter Yohn's t.
Pennytown Ephraim Hertzler, JOsepl
Weaver and Pearson Sample.
| For the division of Drumore TOWNSHIP
into two election districts Commissioner
George Pierce, Robert B. Patterson AM
VIM. King.
For the opening of South Plum stree
from East King to the junction of Locus
and John streets and assess the damages
Samuel Evans, Abm. N. Cassell, VIM
Ellmaker, Henry Eckert and Michael
Metzgcr.
Held for Robbery.
Walker Phillips, who was committed o
August ed by Squire Frank, of COlum