The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-21
COURT.HOUsE LOCALS.
Thomas Bryant Files Damage Suit
Against q Number Of PARTIES
The Empire Bottlins Company Wants
Damages From the Western
Union-Other Court
Notes.

The new dog licenses for the ensuing year
ere ready .or customers in the City Clerks
Office.
The damsgs suit OF William Mckenzie vs..
William Il. Poore was smissed In Room
yesterday.
The divorce suit of John vs. Mary Cowen
vas stricken from the docket in Room yes
terdsy, the plaintiff having recently died.
The Suit of w. H. Whitehead vs.. the l.,
B. and w. Road for 81 600 damages for per-
soDsl injuries is being argued before the jary
In Room l.
George w. Hunter has fled fer divorce
from Mary C,<Hunter, whom he married in
1882. He chsrpes abandonment and prosti-
tuition for cause.
James sulgrove has fled suit to forecloss
. mortgage against John B. Brandt aud
others. demanding Judgment for 81, 900. The
complaint 10 in four paragraphs.
Henry r. Bond has fled suit against Will
liam F. Sharpe and wife 10 foreclose mort
gage given in November, 1876, to secure
80. GOO, and another mortgage given to secure
$1,000.
THE Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company has filed o suit against John d.
snts. to foreclose mortgage on certain city
property given in December, 1881, to secure
ass. eco note. and ten coupon notes for SS92.50
each. Demand, SIC, 600 and appointment OF
Receiver.
Morris Dalton has taken ont q 81 200
permit for . frame cottsge to be built on the
corner of Kaller street and Arsenal avenue.
II. c. Dewenter will erect q s.. 600 brick on
Alabama street, between Home avenue and
Seventh street. Frank Ruske will put up
81 200 frame on Cincinnati street between
Liberty and Noble. Other permits Issued
yesterday aggregate in value 5000.
Clara r. Brooker wants divorce from
Thomas Brcoker, and for cause alleges cruel
treatment by cursing and whipping her, and
threatening TO take Der life, and by locking
her and her child out o. doors all night. She
charges failure TO provide, although Thomas
owns property worth $4,000, portion of
which Is in their joint names Demand Is
msde fo- the custody OF the child and rea
tonabIe slimony. The parties were married
III July, 1858.
Albert Sutton, Joseph Cowcn and Jerry
Sample, Trustees of the Garfield Baptist
Church, have fled suit for trespass against
Oiof r. Olsen and j. c. Ayres, alleging that
en- tho 9th OF this month defendants entered
TIE church and took away fifty benches
and twenty chairs which plaintiffs had rent.
ed. Because OF this divine service csn not
be held for elk months. and because OF the
failure TO collect the church contributions
the sum of $1,000 Several intrrogatories
are propounded to discover who were actu-
ally engaged in the trespsss.
John X. Watt and James Miller, under the
firm name OF the Empire Betting Company,
have filed suit against the Western Union
Telegraph Company for damages. alleging
for cause the sending OF dispatch last
month 10 Joseph Schiitz Brewing Company,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. the following being
copy: "Ship rs Immediately sixty-nine bar
rels Pilser and two halves of Bavarisn. Draw
bill Of ladipg attached. Hasten shipment as
We will be entirely out of beer by Wednes-
day morning" The defendant accepted the
dispatch, but failed to send il until the
Thursday following, five days after the filing
thereof. This delayed the plaintiffs in their
business and damaged them, they say, 50 900
worth.
Thomas J. Bryant yesterday filed another
suit for damages against Oren II. Trook EN-
met ]. Heeb, Eli +. brown. William M.
Rednan and Cornelius N. Hamilton for
$4,000. He alleges that he established bust
pess college In this city in 1856 which, in
1864. he cold 60 Bryant, Stratton & Spencer,
and removed to st. Joe, Mo-, where he estab
lished another college, which he operated
until the fall OF 1888, when he returned to
this city and bought out the Bryant Il STRAIT
ton Busipets ColieRe and in 1884 he bought
out the Granger Commercial College, and
the brsiness vac conducted under the style
of j. Bryant & Co., his partner being Ham
iiton, who owned q third interest OF the
business. Heeb and Trook were employed as
teachers. The college was success and
bad large business. Plaintiff then
became dangerously sick, and was COM
PEELED to leave the business to Hamilton,
Heeb and Trook, he being part of the time
delir10ue. While he was thus afflicted, he
alleges, defendants conspircd together TO IN
lawfully and fraudulently wrong and cheat
him out OF his tuo-third interest in the col.
l.ge, their plan being to visit him during his
sickness and induce him to sell out to de
PENDANTS, except Hamilton, who owned
third interest. and who should threaten
plaintiff with the appointment OF Receiver
by the court IL he did not sell out. The
scheme Was carried out, and plaintiff de.
clinsd to sell. Hamilton said he could get
purchaser tor plaintiffs two thirds interest ut
$1,000. and when Bryant refused, the con.
plant SAYS, be exclaimed: "I'll be damned
II you don't do il, you'll never get a dollar.
I'll have Receiver appointed. IL you don't
do IT. within twenty-four hours." Although
defendants never disclosed the names OF toe
proposed purchasers. yet plaintiff was over
persuaded. and be finally Welded, and on the
24th OF last January be conveyed TO
Irook, Heeb, Rsdman and Brown his 10 ter
Get for 81 600. As soon as he discovered no
had been cheated, and as soon as he was
ply sicaily able to do So, he made . legal
tender oil the 81 0C0, and demanded q reels
sion, which was refused. Prayer is made for
the appointment OF Receiver to take poses
sion OF his two-thirds interest, to prevent ii
being sold and assigned to others by the de-
PENDANTS, and for 81, 600 Judgment or reels.
sion of the contract. He also pays into court
the 81 COO to be repaid to defendants at any
time they may choose to settle tina matter.