Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-30
court Notes.

Judge Deming was to have rendered his l decision yesterday morning in the City court | in the interesting case of A. O. Norton, who
 is charged with disposing of property by chance in giving his customers "guess" tick
 cts on his pumpkin, but he telephoned that he was too ill to get out and that he would
 reserve his decision until Thursday.
 The case of George Lowndes, the Foote street saloon keeper who is accused of vio-
 lating the Sunday liquor law, was continued
 until Thursday in the City court yesterday.
 Patrick Mortell, another saloon keeper in the | same sort of difficulty and whose case was | tried last week, had the usual sentence of $50
 and costs entered up yesterday and furnished
 bond on appeal.
 The bribery cases against R. W. Wilcox l and George E. Trask, which grew out of l Wallingford's many arson cases were to come ! to trial in Wallingford yesterday, but by 1 agreement between counsel they went over until Wednesday.
 | in this morning at 10 o'clock with Judge Henry Stoddard on the bench.
 THAT $9O, 900 cAsE-DEc1s1oN RESERVED. Judge Beardsley was engaged in the Su- perior court, Bridgeport, for two or three
 hours yesterday in hearing a motion for the
 release from attachment of part of the prop
 erty levied upon in suit brought by Ma
 thaniel Sohleeman against Lewis Hotchkiss, wealthy manufacturer of Birmingham.
 Schleeman is the inventor of 6 process for
 making gas and formed a company in which Hotchkiss became largely interested. The two had disagreement and recently Schlee- I1s 4o fha of eral hundred shares of the gas company's stock under a contract between them. Dam ages were also asked for, the whole amount claimed being $9O,O0O. On the suit to re- cover this the plaintiff attached real estate belonging to the defendant worth over $100, ,000 and various stocks and securities of the par value of $1O0, ,000 more. Hotchkiss claims the attachment and the corresponding bond he must give to secure & release of the property is highly cessive and asks for relief It is the first case of the kind brought under the new statute providing for reduction of bail in civil cases and is, therefore, of much interest to the profession. MT. Whitcombe, one of the plaintiffs counsel, stated to the court, under oath, that he believed his client had just claim for $90, 900 and was entitled to recover that amount. He also said that while the original amount sued for was only $90, 900 he thought the sum MT. Schleeman should and might yet claim was $130, ,000. The defendant introduced testimony to show the value of the property that had been attached. The attorneys for Schleeman at the hearing yesterday were c. B. Whitcombe, c. s. Hamilton and Judge Rufus s. Pickett of thiss city, and Raphael J. Moss of New York. The defendant is represented by Messrs. Wooster, Williams and Gager. The case was argued partly orally and partly in writing by counsel on both sides. Experts were put on the witness stand by both par ties to the suit as to the value of the Hotch- kiss property and as to the sncumbrances, which were found to be very heavy. Judge Beardsley took all the papers of the case pre- sented by the opposing attorneys and will give his answer in the near future.
 The hearing was brought upon provisions of chapter 79, public acts 1886, and as this is probably the first time the language of that statute has been consulted in any court for this cause it will attract the attention of the bar generally