Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-21
THE COURT RECORD.


 Court Of common Pleas-Judge Tor
 rance.
 This court came in yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
 The case of Cormack Shields vs. Patrick Donnslly was on trial during the day. Shields sues to recover bill of about $20 for rent Donnelly claims that he paid for necessary repairs on the tenement moro than the rent The defendant also claims that the sanitary arrangements of the house were so defective that he and other members of the family were made ill by escaping sewer gas. This is another ground on which he refused to pay the bill. The arguments were con- cluded in the afternoon and without the charge being made to the jury.
 Court adjourned until this morning at 10 o'clock
 City Court Criminal Side - Judge
 Deming.
 November 20.-Chauncey B. House, non support of family, continued to Nov. 22; Theodore F. Rehbein, embezzlement, con- tinued to Nov. 25; Daniel M. Mullen, breach of the peace, $10 fine and $6.97 costs. Court Notes. The civil side of the Superior court will re- sume its session next Monday afternoon. The Supreme Court of Errors will meet in this city on Tuesday, December 2. The criminal side of the Superior court | will come in on Tuesday, January 6, 1885. 1 At this session Whipper, of Madison, and Johnson, of Wallingford, will be tried fol murder. The case of Beaudet, charged with a murderous assault upon Dr. Zink, of Bran, ford, will also be disposed of at this term ot | the court.
 Daniel M Mullen, thief and general vag abond who recently stole his brothers ! clothes, was fined $10 in the City court yes terday for an assault and breach of the peace, l the party complaining being Alice Feely. He was also fined for drunkenness, and the two l fines with costs will give him home at the ! jail during the winter.
 I The case of Schliepmann 6 Spittler vs l Anson T. Hale was commenced in the civil side of the City court yesterday afternoon before Judge Deming. Last summer, at the request of Howard 0. Payne, the plaintiffs l signed note for $200 with the understand l ing that the money was to be used to assist Hale in buying out a saloon. When the l note became due they were obliged to pay il and now sue Hale to recover. The note l went directly from Schliepmann & Spittle1 to Payne, but the latter says he was only act ing as Hale's representative in the matter and that Hale received the money realized from the note.
 In the City court yesterday morning Law yer Bollman, associate counsel in the Theo dore Rehbein embezzlement ,case asked for ( continuance, as Mir. Driscoll, the leading counsel, was sick and unable to appear | Judge Blydenburgh appeared for Jeffreys & Co.,, where Rehbein was employed, and said | that he was perfectly willing that the case l should go over for few days. Judge Dem | ing set the trial down for Tuesday, Novem- Der 23 Rehbein is charged with embez zling from his former employers, Jeferys & Go. of 453 State street, goods and money tC the amount of $1, 900. He was arrested by l Detective Brewer on November 7. Since | then there have been several continuances. Along with it's other tribulations, the Peo ple's party now finds itself placed in the at ! titude of defendant in lawsuit. It is be | ieved to be the first instance in legal prac 1 tice in which any political party has beer | thus proceeded against. w. G. Butler is the l plaintiff in the suit, the Peoples party il named the defendant, and B. Booth, th' | furniture auctioneer, is made the garnishee l MT. Booth has SIS realized as the proceed | of the furniture of the dismantled Butle l club room, and W. G. Butler has brough the action to prevent any portion of tn
 money to be paid over to MT. Whitehead ! one of his chief co-laborers in the late cam | paign of the Peoples party in Connecticut.