Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-05
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The Supreme Court
 In the Supreme Court at Hartford yester- day the arguments were finished in Peck's appeal from probate, and the case of George P Brinley ct al. trustes vs. George Grou ct al. was begun. This suit relates to the right of defendants as heirs under will in certain privilege pertaining to the increase of capital stock of the Etna Insurance company, some shares of which stock (previous to increase) were given by the will to the defendants in this case. The next case to come up is the State vs. the city of Hartford, which relates to certain assessments made by the city on pieces of property owned by the State and so situated in the city of Hartford as to have been assessed for betterments on account of the northeast sewer.
 Court of Common Pleas--Judge Torrance.
 This court came in yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
 The case of Lanfair vs White, both of Branford, was on trial. It is action to cover $104 for board, use of horse and wagon and borrowed money It is claimed that the defendant fraudulently concealed his prop erty. The defendant claims he owes only $3650. w. A. Wright for plaintiff, Zacher for defendant.
 Demurrers were argued in the case of Me Gilvery and of H. H. Thompson against the oity The first is an action to recover for broken leg. The other is for a dead and an injured horse due to an unguarded excavation on Elm street. filling and Henry Stoddard argued them.
 Court adjourned until this morning at 10 clock
 City Court-CrimInal side-Judge Stud
 ley.
 Mary E. Judd, lasciyious carriage, contin- ued to May II Ellen E. Hendrick, breach of license law, continued till May 5; Timothy Potter. neglecting family, judgment suspend ed John J. Mcclure, statutory burglary, judgment suspended Edward Freeman, rape six months in. jail; George H. Millard dump ing ashes in the street, continued to May 5; Mary Boucher, breach of the peace, $1 fine and $7.37 costs Michael Daly, breach of the peace, $5 and costs; Michael Daly, theft, continued to Saturday; Joseph Tanning, breach of the peace, twenty days in jail; Alonzo G. Case, continued till to, day Daniel Fogarty assault $1o fine and $6.97 costs, appealed.
 Court Notes.
 George H. Willard was before the City Court yesterday morning on a charge of dumping ashes on Veto street. Hilton E. Doolittle made statement that Willard had dumped two or three loads of black, filthy looking stuff on Veto street and then covered 1t with ashes.
 Willard stated in his own behalf that he was directed to put the material there by the Messrs BIakesIee the contractors appointed to keep the streets in repair.
 Mr. Blakeslee said he so gave orders and that when he was riding through Veto street the other day he noticed holes in it and thought the stuff would be just the thing to fill up with. It was customary to do so and the material in his opinion was good and clean and did not give out any objectionable odor.
 Mir. Sargent, who represented the Board of Public Works, said that it WAS the custom to put iron cinders, which had been slacked on the street. The stuff out of the foundry which MT. Doolittle found so much fault with was pulverized iron and made an excellent hard road wherever placed.
 MT. Doolittle again said that the pulver- ized iron which Mir. Sargent spoke of was inches deep up around some of the factories on Whitney avenue, and in the dry summer months the air was thick with particles float ing around the neighborhood.
 MT. Sargent again added that the mixture with which fault was found was in his esti- nation, as an expert, perfectly wholesome
 The case was continued until to-day, the judge desiring to more fully investigate al- legged defects in the ordinance.