The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-20
C0URT-HOUsE LOCALS.
Verdict for Defendant in the HUMPHREYS
Admire Islander Suit.
Dismissal Of the McCoy-B Beaver SANDER
euit-suit for So, 900 Against the
Globe Life Insurance Com
psny-Other Suits.

Jacob Mcclure ard others to foreclose
N orfesse given 80 secure = number OF notes
given several years ego. Demand, 5000.
The suit of Chester Bradford W. the 81.
prsne sitting of tie Order Of the Iron Hall
has been dismissed in Room 3 This was
tuit on account for services rs an officer OF
the Grand Lodge.
Elias ID. Johnson has fled suit against Syl-
vester Rennsrd to. collect 1922 note. De.
mand $3.50. The defendant is a nsn-resi.
dent, and an affidavit in attachment is filed
with The complaint.
The suit of William Patterson vs.. the es-
tate OF Gustavus II. Voss, deceased, is on
tlial by jury in the Circuit Court Plaintiff
euss to recover a claim for s.. 400. The wit
nssses In the case have been separated.
The suit Of Doc Wilson, colored. vs. Ernst
Knodel for damages for not permitting him
tc play pool in his saloon is on trial in
squire Judkins' Court. The defense claims
that Wilson was intoxicated at the time.
The case Of Eli Lopg VS.. the Board of
County Commissioners has been appealed to
tie Circuit Court Long applied for re-
funding Of money paid on application for
iicense 10 sell liquors, which the board re.
fused.
The jury in the phries-Admire Sian.
Ger suit yesterday retired at 8 o'clock for
dehberation ard returned before II O'Clock
with q verdict for defendant. The first bal.
lot stood nine for the defendant and on the
second the defendant got ten votes.
Building permits: L. A. Sewell. $1,000
frame on Park avenue, between Lincoln
avenue and Seventh street; G. A. Nicoli
~ coo frame corner of Illinois and Second
streets; Joseph g. Bruce, 81, 100 frame On
tof
Laurel streete.
Tie wife of John Carleton, bailiff in the
Criminal Court. died yesterday morning
after brief illness. To-day would have been
the thirty sixth we ddipg anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs. Carleton. The remains will be taken
10 Cincinnati for bur 81 at the Spring Grove
Cemetery tomorrow.
Catharine Morton has filed suit for divorce
from William E Morton. Abandonment,
drunkenness aud failure to provide are al
legged. William is accused of abuse and of
having threatened to kill his wife. They
were marrisd in December, 1882, in New
Mexico. William was last heard from in
Denver. Plaintiff is an actress and is now
living with her mother.
The damage suit of Robert P. Mccoy vs.
James III. Beaver, for SO 600, was dismissed
in the Circuit Court Yesterday. Plaintiff
sued Beaver for SANDER. for cause alleging
that in 1888 defendant said: Il believe be
mccoy stole bis own mothers body, for -
= him, he's ornery enough to do anything"
The attorneys withdrew their appearance
for the plaintiff. and the case went OF for
want OF prosecution.
john III. Clemments became q raving ma
MAC about year ago, believing that he had
Q hole in his head. and that he was not him.
self, but somebody else. His mental dis
traction was so violent that 1t would REQUIRE
several men to hold him. He was twice
wounded in the army; is q printer, forty
four years old; been married eighteen years,
and has three children. His home is at POS
Huron street. Yesterday he was declared in.
sane. and taken to the State Hospital.
In the case OF James K. Langsdale w. the
Indiana Phalanx Company. where judg.
ment for s545 was recently taken, q levy has
be en- made by the Sheriff. and notice of sale
has been given, to take place on the let of
June. The defendant is the company pub.
lishiDg the State temperance organ. A de-
livery bond has been given by the company,
with the understanding that at q meeting of
the pesson inter ested 10 be held Oh the 2Ssh
of this month the matter will be settled by q
payment Of the judgment.
In the suit Of the Home Insurance Com
psny We. John Roach on 8 note given for the
amount OF premium on fire policy, judy
nent was rendered by Squire Smock for
plaintiff. The decision establishes the right
OF one corporation to assign all rights and
property to another, and is to the effect that
. note given by any one to the Signing in
stitution and assigned over to q similar firm,
10 collectable, and that the maker is bound
by II, though he had no notice of the assign
nent.
EmmaN N. Foster hes fled for divQrce from
Robert j. Foster whom she charges with
cruel treatment in assaulting, beating and
driving her from home at night. She says
that on the 9Th OF this month he drove her
from the house, and, not being able to find
shelter, she was compelled to sit on
the doorstep all night long, when she
suffered terribly from the cold air. also on
the 10th he again assaulted her and swore he
would kill her, put her out or the house and
declared she should never again enter it. He
bas frequently been drunk and for the past
three months be has been drunk nearly
every night From the date of their mar
risge. which took place on the 2sth of o.
teoer, 1855. he bes treated Emma shame
July. Emma wants the custody o. the child
and 81 500 alimony.
Virgil G. Clsudia and Mary G. V. Ham.
mond, the latter By her next friend, III. J.
AulligaD, she being an infant have filed
suit against the Globe Mutual Assessment
Life Association. of this city, Francis NJ.
Packer and Marcus E. Frazier, to collect a
policy for s., 900 issued On the life of John
III. Hammond. who afterward died. The
complaint alleges that in response to
the assessment on behalf of Ham
moDd's heirs the members of the asso.
citation contributed their assessments to the
amount of $1,000; that Packer is the Presi.
dent and Frszier 10 the Secretary of the
association; that said assessments have
come and are now in their possession except