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CHITTENDEN COUNTY COURT.
Thursdays Proceeding The Case q
Rum ey VS.. Nelson Uncompleted.

I y
Rumsey VS. Henry j. Nelson. The testi-
mony for the plaintiff was completed in
the fore part of the afternoon, and the tes-
tmony for the defendant had not been
completed upon adjournment for the day
OF the cases assigned Erastus Field,
by his guardian. Ferdinand Beach,
appellant, VS.. the estate of II: r.
Whitcomb was set to the Court in Frank
Young, appellant VS.. Willard ruler,
Russell VS.. William II. Thompson, judg-
ment was entered for the plaintiff.
The Rumsey- Nelson Case Still Unfinished.
The New Docket.
The evidence in the case of George A.
Rumsey, VS.. Henry j. Nelson was com
pleted Friday forenoon. The opening
argument for the plaintiff was made by
Hon. w. l.. Burnap. The opening argu-
ment for the defendant was made by
| Bobert Roberts. Esq, and the closing by
Hon. w. G. Shaw. At about o'clock in
the afternoon a recess was taken until
| O'Clock Friday morning on account OF the
indisposition of H. S. Peck, Esq. who was
expected will close for the plaintiff;
The jurors not empaneled on the case
under consideration were excused until
Monday afternoon.
OF the causes assigned for Friday,
Orwell J. Hosford appellant VS. the estate
! of f.. F. Whitcomb has been settled, and
| Larry Sexton VS. Edward Flannery APP
pellant, and Samuel Howard ct al admin
| istrators VS.. J. w. Brown have been set to
/ the Court. The cases of Morillo Noyes and
wife VS.. William Meagher, Harvey
| Thompson vs. j. B. Morgan, G.. A. Ter
rill VS.. George w. Woodwork are under
stood to be settled so that Rumsey VS..
Nelson will in all probability be the last
civil case for the jury.
Vardict FIR tho Plaintiff n Rumsey
Nelson-Other Court Matters.
The closing argument for the plaintiff in
George A. Rumsey VS.. Henry j. Nelson
was made Saturday morning by Hon. w.
l.. Burnap The Judge charged the jury
and they retired about 1890 but a verdict
was not agreed upon until noon. The
jury returned verdict for the plaintiff
for S1454 16 and COSTS the amount claimed
being $4,000.
The jury were then discharged till Mon
day afternoon.
While the jury in the Rumsey-Nelson
case were out, the States attorney filed an
information against Edison A. Packard of
Milton. Bail was fixed at $500 and the
case was continued. Packard was charg-
ed with poisoning his neighbours cattle by
scattering paris green IN the pasture.
The cases on the new entry docket were
then called and nearly all the criminal
cases were marked for trial. In the cases of
the State VS.. John j. Sullivan, and State
| VS. George White recognizance was for
feited. In the State vs. Fred Guyette the
complaint was dismissed on account of the
fact that the Grand Jurors who signed it
had not taken the oath of Office at the
time the complaint was made,
The cases on the old docket were then
called and the case of q. A. Terrill VS..
| worth nndpr-
stood to have been settled was marked for
trial.
Judge Taft is disqualified in number
of cases pending in the County Court and
Judge Rowell will dispose Of them for
the present term. They are as follows :
Schlosnger and Blumental VS.. Austin
& Co., Vermont Horse Stock Company VS..
Avery, Whitcomb VS.. Burlington and La
MOLE Railroad Company, Leclair VS..
Cote & Miner and IT,, Burlington Wooden
Company, Spaulding VS.. Drew, Spaulding
vs. l.. A. q A A. Drew, Gleason VS.. Estate
of James A. Beers, Plat q Allen VS.. Col
chester and others, Underwood VS.. Blod-
gett and others. On the chancery docket,
Spaulding ct. ais. VS.. Drew et ais, Far
rand Administrator VS.. Gleason.
The Case of G. A. Terrill VS. G. W. Wood
worth Unfinished.
The attention of the Court Tuesday was
almost wholly taken'up with the case OF
G. A. Terrill VS.. G. W. Woodwork. The
evidence was completed about the middle
. of the afternoon and V. A. Billiard, Esq.
made the opening argument for the plain
tiff j. j. Monaban, Esq, opened for the
e defence, after which the jury were dis
t missed for the day
A. H. Norton, against whom an informa
ton was filed by the States Attorney
charging him with having liquor on hand
with intent to sell contrary to law, was
e taken before the Court He pleaded guilty
= and was held to bail in the sum of 800 fol
. appearance IN court this morning, to de
termine the point whether he shall bt
e held for a second offence. In default OF
: bail he was committed to Jail.
Verdict for the Plaintiff in Terrill VS.
Woodwork.
: The entire forenoon was occupied il
y County Court Wednesday in closing thu
s case of Terrill VS.. Woodworth and it was
c nearly l O'Clock before the case was giveI
l. to the jury, after which recess wa
l. taken.
n In the afternoon, the jury not having
Y agreed upon a verdict, A. Fl. Norton wa
s brought before the Court. Norton having
II pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the charg
of keeping liquor on hand with intent t,
n sell contrary to law, the Court decided
u
u could be admitted as evidence in thi
Re case Morton was accordingly sentences
d to serve term of one months imprison
n ment in the House of Correction and t.
- pay fine of $50 and costs Of the action
e with alternative sentence if the fine is no
IS paid.
< Judge Rowell then took the bench an
8 the cases in which Judge Taft is dsqual
,s fled were called The case of Platt & Al
Is, Il, len ct ais VS.. the towns of Colchester an
> Milton was taken up.
t, This is the case remanded from the ST
J., preme Court, involving the question as t
70 Whit proportion of the expense of col
- structing the new road from South Hero
!" including bridge over the Lamolle rive
A. below West Milton, about ten miles fror
D., Burlington, should be borne by this cit,
J.. 1t viii be remembered that the commits
in sioners appointed by the County Court i
~ answer to petition, to consider the ma
r. ter decided that the bridge and road ougf
n, to be built, and the estimated Z;
y, from $4,000 to sl5,0OO-borne by Gran
wv Isle, South Hero, Milton, Colchester an
hn M of