St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11
STILL THEY COME.
Damage suits still Occupy the Dis
1rict Courts- Cases.


trict COgrts- Railroad Cases.
The trial of the suit of j. B. Holmes VS..
Frank C. Grisw0ld, to recover 1000 dam
ages for the drowning of plaintiffs son in a
collar belonging to the defendant, which
was filed with water, was commenced yes
terdav morning. but after the first witness
had been examined the court discovered
that an error in the complaint made it nee
essary to dismiss The action, which he ac-
cordingly did.
The damage suit of Rosa Wright VS..
Ball & Strock, the plumbers. was COM
menced and continued through the day.
july 16 a row Of frame houses belonging to
the plaintiff. at the corner of Third avenue
south and Eighth street, caught fire from
small furnace used for melting solder by one
of the defendants WOrkmen. 1t Is claimed
that the damage to the buildings was
1000. for which amount suit is brought
on the ground that the gasoline furnace was
negligently handled. The defense is that
an ordinary degree of carefulneSS was eX-
ercised and that the gasoline exploded
through no fault of the defendants. The
case is not finished and will be resumed this
morning.
THE RAILROAD CASES
are over, the last appeal from awards of
damages in the proceedings instituted by the
St. Paul q Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany being concluded yesterday afternoon.
This was the appeal OF the railroad COM
pany from the award for land taken belong
inc to Bernhard Zwick and sors. The
proceedings were commenced inJune, 1884,
and the commissioners appraised the dam
ages for the taking of lot 4. block 4, BaS-
sett, Moore & Cases addition, at S7,575.
and appOrtioned the award by giving the
sons s.. coo. and the father. who held life
estate in the property, 81 515. Zwick APP
peaed, and in December the jury gave him
verdict for 81. 800. The railroad company
and the sons appealed from the award of
$1,000, and this was the case presented to
the jury yesterday, which returned a YER
dict fixing the damages at SS.071.33 This
makes the cost of the land altogether to the
railroad company nearly $4,000
The next case tried was the suit of John
Olmsheid against the railroad company to
recover $1,000 for trespass by the main
line of the road in crossing land at the cor
ner of Main street and Eighteenth avenue
northeast. The inrv returned verdict for
$3.50.
The suit of Frank Aubrecht against the
railroad to recover $500 damages to prop
erty on Bohemian flats was dismissed.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Thomas Preston. a cOlored man, who
showed signs of violent insanity. was yes
terday examined in the probate court. The
physicians were unable to decide whether
his mental arrangement was temporary or
not. and it was decided to hold him in the
county jail for a few days.
Judge Young yesterday fled decision in
the suit brought by the Ohio Building Stone
company VS.. Reed & Conroy ct al, to re-
cover 1892 and enforce the lien upon prop
erty. The judge allows S326.6S, but de-
cides that the same shall not be lien upon
the property.
Osborne Brashean and Nellie Watson,
Charles Peterson and Annie Peterson,
Henry Jackson and Annie Nelson, Eugene
Baker and Addie Sperry, Frank A. Upham
and Alexander hurry, William E. WILDER
and Catharine Archibald yesterday OBJ
tanned marriage licenses.
The Judges seem to have made up their
minds to stand the annoyance resulting
from the hardness of jurors no longer.
Yesterday II. Miller failed to appear. and
one of the Jurors reported that he had said
the evening before that he didn't believe
he'd come to court as the pay was too
small" Mr.. Miller was brought before
Judge Koon, who read him a brief but
forcibIe lecture and fined him S25. The
fine was afterwards leSSened to SIS, which
was paid. Judge Lochren also ordered NJ.
D. ingram and j. L. Lucas to pay SIS for
the trouble and expense they had caused by
nOn-appearance.