The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-06

$500 dozen Of good eggs; something over $1,000
| don't know positively. We put in thirty five
barrels of seconds but kept DO account of the
quality. We just candlei them; we bad to get
the best we coald out of them. We received
eggs daily from FIVE to fifty miles dis
lance from the city. We received
many from Illinois. / do not know about the
condition of the eggs myself only the condition
of the barrels know nothing Of the condition
of the eggs either when in or out of storage.
When they came out / examined the top layers
of a few barrels and found them bad, the barrels
bullying out with wet and tie oats sproutng"
When he came to tell of the butter he stored
there he said it was contained in seventy three
tubs, we'll packed, sweet, first-class country but
ter He did not. however until brought on the
stand in rebuttal, tell that this butter
packed In May kept in his own refrigerator
until August, and then stored with the Adams
Packing Company When put in storage"
he said, "butter was worth 123l. IA and Is cents.
When took it out the market price was % or
70 cents" He described the condition in which
he found his butter when he took it out Of stor-
age. 1t was wet and soft. Il tried to sell It,"
he continued, ''but could not. 1t was not worth
Dor 10 cents. l classed it as grease" In ex-
planning his treatment of butter when he re-
ceived it at his place he said IF we got ten tubs
of butter selected the yellow to itself and the
white to itself, and we took it, mixed it and
colored it,"
yellow butter does not need to be coloredp
mo, sir. But with the white, the streaked
and work it over. We work it right over as it
comes in. We never put any such white butter
in Adamss store house"
You put anything but good butter in that
store room}"
My instructions to the last to nv men were
to put nothing but frstclass butter in there
Maybe | saw half the butter that went there
The average butter we hold over, and the oldest
butter we sell right at once. l do not remem
Der telling Mr. Grimm about the middle of Sep
tam h0N hot 80 a.
l stored with Adams were seconds" AS to this
latter statement Mr.. Grimm testified that Sull-
van told him he had taken out only few barrels
of eggs and they were seconds.
Witness after witness followed relating to a
great extent the same process of Gambling. the
condition the eggs were In when they were
withdrawn from storage, and the methods of
dealing with butter. 1t cropped out that Sull-
van, during this period, sent lot of butter
day to the Insane Asylum. 1t was rejected,
and when brought back he had it mixed with
other butter, sent it to the asylum again, wnon
it was accepted.
An interesting witness was Suhvan's
book keeper Miss Maggie Korner The
Adams Packing Company gave her
employer receipts for the articles he
stored. She kept them in q safe until Sullivan
took them down to Ritzinger's bank, when he
drew for the value of the eggs and butter.
When the articles were to be withdrawn from
storage Sullivan would 20 to the bank, get one
of these receipts. and give it to Mr. Irwin, who
got what was wanted from tho Adams company.
If the receipt called for eleven barrels of eggs
and six were withdrawn, the receipt was retained
by Sullivan as good for the remaining five bar
rels. In September sixty-four barrels of eggs
were tax en- out of storage. The good ones were
sold in the city, and ffty-fve barrels were
shipped to New York.
On the shipment Sullivan, it is stated, would
draw from the Ritzingers the value and deposit
with them the bill of lading. AS the butter could
not be sold here, he shipped the whole A. 105
pounds on which he claimed damages from
Adams to New York. When it was put in stor
age he valued it at $780, It was stated in evil
dence that he got 1900 for it.
Sullivan wanted 81 900, willing to settle
for S., 900, refused ST. 000 and got verdict from
the jury for $780, Adams took an appeal to the
Supreme Court, and on exceptions to the in
structions Of the judge got reversal of the YER
dict and an order for o new trial. The case was
held in this position for some time, when Sui-
van agreed to pay the costs in the Superior and
Supreme courts and accept $500 for settlement
This was paid by Adams