St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-18
CURIOUS WILL CASE.
On Trial in the District Court--A
Damage Suit and 9th er Cases.

Damage Suit and 9th er Cases.
A suit is now in progress before Judge
Young which furnishes all the necessary
groundwork for novel of the Mystery of
the Hidden Will order. Stephen E., Will
lam E., Rufus and Harry Woodcock, by
Frank W. Woodcock, their guardian ad
ltem, sue Herbert G. Woodcock, Amanda
E. Emery, William r. Emery, Asa E.
johnson, Hannah r. johnson, John
Rourke, Mary Rourke and the Farmers and
Mechanics Savings bank, the cause of COM
plant being set forth as follows: The
plaintiffs are the children and heirs-at-law
| of William E. Woodcock. deceased, the de-
PENDANT, Amanda E. Emery, being his
widow, and William R. Emery her present
husband. and defendant Herbert c. Wood
cock another son. April IS, 1882, William
E. Woodcock died interstate, after a long
sickness, which had affected his mind for
some time previous. 1t is claimed that
Amanda Z. Emery, Asa E. Johnson
assisted by R. W. Cummings, fraudulently
| took advantage of the incapacity OF the body
and mind of William E. Woodcock
and compelled him to sigma warranty deed
which purpOrted to convey lots 20 and 80,
of block Is, of Sibley's addition to St. An
| thony, to Herbert c. Woodcock; that the
pretended deed was never delivered to Her
! bert C. Woodcock, but was held in secret
trust for Amanda E. Emery, the mother.
to whom it was afterwards executed with
out consideration. Feb. IS, 1888, Asa E.
johnson, knowing all the foregoing facts,
| obtained from Amanda f. Emery deed
| conveying the property to himself, and May
%. 1888, in turn conveyed it to john
ROurk, who, March IS, 1885, mOrtgaged it
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bank to secure loan of 50, 100, the prop
| erty being worth about $4,000.
The testimony was principally as to the
condition of William E. Woodcock's mind
when the deed was signed April IS. 1882,
upon which point the witnesses for the OPP
posing parties differed materially. The de-
tense claimed further that the deed was
drawn up April T at Mr.. Woodcocks re-
quest and was taken to him April II, and
signed the day following. 1t was alleged
also that the mother has spent good por-
ton of the proceeds from the sale of the
land in educating the plaintiffs. The case
goes to the jury this morning with the un-
derstanding that the result is to settle two
! other suits.
THE DAMAGE SUIT,
The suit of Thomas A. Barnard vs.. W.
81. and E. W. Ensign. the Iiverymen, was
concluded Yesterday in Judge Rooms court
and will be given TO the jury this morning.
| The plaintiff seeks to recover $4,000 dam
ages for injuries inflicted by runaway
team belonging to the plaintiffs. the claim
being that the iron-heads on the whiffle-
trees were horizontal and allowed the tugs
to slip off. thus frightening the horses. On
this point number of liverymen, carriage
manufacturers and horsemen testified. The
! 1x4-I,i f1atr ,rrbf
into court and submitted to the inspection
of the jury The iron-heads proved to
stand perpendicular, and the experts testi-
fed that it was not usual to use thongs to
keep the thugs from slipping off when this
| was the case.
THE COURT CASES.
Judge Lochren yesterday referred the
petition of A. c. Bausman, for dissolution of
his partnership with J. W. Woodman and
an accounting, to J. r. Vanderlee for a
hearing. The parties entered into CO.
partnership for the publication of Wood
mans Court calendar by the terms of which
Bausman was to print the books and Wood
man was to sell them; the receipts were
then to be divided, which Bausman claims
has never been done.
In the suit of John II. Long. the attOr-
ney, against the legal firm OF Keith, Ihomp-
son & Webster, Judgeo Lochren sustained
defendants demurrer and gave the plaintiff
leave to amend his case. Long claims S61S
for services in securing Judgment against
Chadburne Il McClelland for certain clients
and alleges that the defendants and the as
signee have conspired to defraud him. J
AFTER MANY DAYS. :
Herman R. Hollinshead. who lives near the
rendering works at the Milwaukee Short
line bridge. was yesterday arraigned to
answer to an Indictment charging him with
stealing a buggy from Baldwin Brown. June
5. 1850. He plead not guilty and his BOND
was fixed at $1,000. Mr.. Brown claims
that Hollinshead borrowed baggy of him
ostensibly to 90 on a search for stray
horse. that he never returned it and never
could be found, having been out of the state
most of the time. The reason assigned for
the delay in causing the arrest is that Mr.
Brown did not know he could institute