New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-08
THE COURTS.
BITS OF LEGAL NEWS.

The General Term o. the City Court accepted the
apology of Charles Griffin. the lawyer, who wrote
pert Judge Nehrbas finding fault with one OF '
decisions
walter and George Thompson wv. Thompson CO..,
made an assignment yesterday James Graham giving
preferences for s1l.7s5
seligman Aaolph and Solomon Hirsch rs. Hirsch
Sons assigned yesterday to Alexander Wenke without
preferences
The General Term OF the Superior Court has set aside
the Judgment for si794e 43, obtained by Annie NJ B.
Halsey executrix Of her husband. Anthony Halscy,
against the Tradesmens Nationai Bank OF the City OF
N.w.York inpleaded with William ii. Hoes At the
tine Of his death Hasey indebted the institution,
and He had valuable securities deposited
with the bank which the institution claimed In part pay
ruent OF debt OF ESQ 000 His widow claimed that
Hoes whs was her lawyer and the bank, by collision
and fraud induced her permit those securities to 70
main In the bank, and demanded their value The Ap-
peate Court holds that the charges OF fraud are not
sustained
Annie J. Monitan says that William NJ Monitan,
without the knowledge Of her parents on September 70
1887 took her before Rev Dr. D. Brainerd Ray and
there married her She only sixteen years old She
sued for an annument the marriage but Judge DAILY
In the Court Of Common Pleas, yesterday sustained
demurrer TO the complaint the ground that 1t did not
contain facts SUFFICIENT constitute cause Of action
O. T. huntington the railroad magnate, was fined 800
BY Justice Beach yesterday for falling TO appear as
Juror In the Supreme Court Part I'LL Among the Jurors
sworn Gouverneur Morris
A decree giving MIS- NnsElOLJe d. Lcusct WOVuSoNA
an absolute divorce from William II. Woodcock, was
signed yesterday by Justice Ingfaham In the Supreme
Court 1t in evidence that Wocdcock had been too
intimate with his servant girl The amount OF amony
will be settled hereafter.
In the suit OF Henry Thaw against the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph Company order made in the
Superior Court Special Term January for the ap
pontment OF receiver OF the company with proviso
that nothing in the order should anect the rights ana
mowers Of any other receiver previously appointed over
this order the COM
many appealed chiefly the ground that the appointment
would create conflict with the Supreme Court which
had already appointed receiver in the case The order
appealed from has affirmed by the General Term OF
the Superior Court Justice O'GOrman, who wrote the
oninon declaring that ground for such appre-
hension.
Surrogate Ransom has settled the contest the Will
of james McKenna by admitting it TO probate 1t was
executed on April % 1887 and gave all his property TO
his wife Mary The objections to It, interposed by his
relatives were based the ground Of mental incapaciy
and undue influence.
The Central Trust Company yesterday appointed
by Justice Lawrence Supreme Court sole trustee
Of trust deeds In 1877 by the Western Railroad
Company, OF Minnesota, the St. Paul and Northern
Railroad Company to secure the payment OF bones
10 the amount OF 100000 The ST. Paul and Northern
Pacific and Charles B. Wright and Frederick Billings
who s167 Of the bonds the petitioners and
william S. Lane and Charlemagne Tower, the old trus
tees who wish be relieved Of their duties Joined In
their application
Justice Barrett In Supreme Court Chambers yesterday
partially dissolved injunction obtained by the Harlem
Bridge Morrisania and Fordham Railroad Company re-
strsnng the Southern Boulevard Railroad Company from
laying the Southern Boulevard The piain.in
claimed that stable property would be injured by the
operation Of the other railroad The Judge says the
damage 70 the plaintiff property owner is slight ana
the real injury probably the danger Of losing part OF
Its business as railroad company. He disselVes inc
Injunction as TO the Boulevard except far as applies
to the 100 feet in the plaintiffs land, and gives
the defendant permission apply for entire dissolution
Of the Injunction.