The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-14
? Addison County Court.

| The December term of the Addison
County court opened in the new court
house in this village at 2 p. m. Tuesday,
the 18th inst. These are the officers !:
Presiding judge. Hon. II. Henry Powers !;
assistant Judges. Hon. q. l.. Harrington.
Hon. G. Il. Stevens; clerk, Rufus Vain
wright; sheriff, y. F. DuDshee; States
attorney. L. WI. Hawkins stenograph-
er, Henry Ovatt.
Among the out-of town lawyers pres
ent were Hon. T.. X. Hard. Hon. Dan
iel Roberts, w. l.. Burnap, Burlington !;
George Il. Lawrence, p. r. Kendall Rut-
land; Hon. f. j. Ormsbee, Walter p.
Wheeler, Brandon; Hon. George w.
! Grandey, Hon. F. e. Woodbridge, Yer
gennes; J. II. Lucia. Montpelier; w. w.
Rider. Bristol; Il. G. Hunt, New Haven !;
Charles F. Kingsley, Salisbury.
After prayer by Rev. 5. L. B. Spcare.
the petit jurors were called. sworn and
charged. They are ms follows: Il. A.
Skiff. Cyrus ii. Smith, Bridport; Loren
II. Jacobs, Chas. f.. Smith, Bristol; BIS.
Field, NJ. Nj. Peck, Cornwall; ii. f.
Beach, Austin Booth, Ferrisburgh; SAM
uel Washburn. Goshen; Geo. A. Taylor,
Hancock; Clemon Bronson, Leicester :;
Elisha b. Clark. Lewis G. Balm. Lincoln !;
James A. Severance. Sdney Mead, Mid
dlebury; f. w. Meader, b. w. Bidwell,
Monkton; f. A. Langdon, Chas. w. Ma
son. New Haven; G. ID. Bush, w. o.
Ray, Orwell: Chas. A. Spalding. Pan
ton; Cyrus +. Brown, Ripton; Henry
NJ. Graves, Salisbury; j. Russell, Milo
Cook, Shoreham; Enos NJ. Sprague Sam
uel Lord, Starksboro; G.. ID. Bristol,
Waltham; II. b. Hagar, Weybridge; d.
j. Brown, Whiting.
John G.. Stapleton was admitted to the
bar. on motion of Hon. G.. w. Grandey
of Nergennes.
On the calling of the docket but two
of the cases on the jury calendar
were found ready for trial-risdale VS..
Persons and Darwin Rider VS.. Henry l..
Sheldon and another. Trial of the first
was at once begun and occupied the time
of the court till three o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. when it was given to the jury.
They soon returned with Il verdict for
the defendant and that he recover his
costs. The case is pretty we'll known
Henry Persons. against whom the suit
was brought. is superintendent at the
forge in East Middlebury, The son of
the plaintiff and two other young men got
into Il row in the forge and Persons sep
arated them, throwing young Tisdae
against a charcoal basket and fracturing
his wrist. The plaintiff sought to recov-
er for the services of his son lost by rea-
son of the boys injury-Sl5, and for
four weeks board of Il man hired to take
his place-$l0, altogether S25. Messrs
A. z. Upper and George f. Lawrence
appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs.
James NJ. Sade and Charles NJ. Wilds
for the defendant.
Wednesday morning Freeman James
of Starksboro, who was jailed here in
August last, was brought into cOnrt and
set at liberty upon his own recognzance
in the sum of $500. 1t will he remember
ed that he plead d guilty to 100 offences
of selling intoXicants and was sentenced
by the justice to pay a fine of 81 800 with
costs. lie appealed. but could not furnish
bail and has since been in confinement.
John G.. Gil ert, who stole horse of
Marion =. Day of Monkton in August
last, and Geo. Wilson, the boy who
drove off with +. W. Bird 81 Co.'S delv-
cry team something over a month ago,
were bought in and pleaded guilty. Gil
bert was sentenced to two and a half
years imprisonment in the House of Cor
rection at Rutland and Wilson to the Re-
form school for the remainder of his
minority.
The case Darwin Rider VS.. Henry l..
Sheldon and others was heard by the
court, Wednesday afternoon. The case
grew out of the sui of Hon. l.. f. Knapp
against w. j. Fuller AMI f. f. Smith, at
one time proprietors of the .1d,lisoR CONE
" JOuIRdi, for SANDER. He recovered
damages, costs and interest to the
amount of over 5000 When he got
Judgment, at the Supreme court in JanI-
AIRY last, those who rcceipted for the
property under the attachment as or
iginally made-O. #. Comstock, Henry
l.. Sheldon and others-were called
upon to pay the Judgment. That they
did not do; hence this suit. The main
point of the defence was that the receip.
tors directed the plaintiff to go and get
the property and that he failed in his
dnty because he did not. The court de.
cded for the plaintiff. The case goes to
the Supreme court on exceptions. Messrs
Stewart & Wlds and f. II. Hard for
Rider; Daniel Roberts and Il. ii. Nc
Leod for defendants.
Thursday morning the celebrated cases
of State VS.. Luther Blanchard were taken
up. and States Attorney Hawkins at.
tempted to put on trial that one in which
respondent is charged with stea ing from
DR.. f. &. Gale. The respondent not be-
ing present. the bonds in this case (S200)
were called and forfeited. The other
cases were continued. Messrs. Stewart
a Wilds. A. Z. Upper, Il. II. Mcleod
and +. +. Woodbridge for Blanchard.
The case State VS.. George ii. Atwood
of Ripton. apt, in which the respondent
is charged with intOXication. was called
The respondent was ready f or trial, but
the States attorney was not, one of his
principal witnesses having gone to York
State. he said. The court ordered a noH,
pros. entered. States attorney for State
j. NJ. Slade for respondent.
The demurrer in State VS.. ii. G. SEES
sions of East Middlebury, charged with
misunderstanding, was heard. In this
case, also, noHe-proS. was entered
States attorney for State, and James NJ
Slade for Sessions.
The jury were then discharged for the
. term. The court is now doing miscrl-
laneous business, hearing divorce cases
etc. An adjournment will probably be