New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-12
n1rs OF LEGAL NEWS.

BITS OF LEGAL NEWS.
verdict In favor of the city rendered yesterday
after trial before Justice Lawrence and Jury in
a suit in which Elias s. Higgins, the carpet manu-
fact,,ror. was plaintiff. Mr. Higgins claimed to be
t,e owner Of sixteen lots of land on the North
river, between Forty-third and Forty sts.,
~ y!rtue of adverse possession for thirty years.
The defence was that there possession such
as could vitiate the city's claim 10 ownership
An cifort made by creditors to the amount OF
1855 oOO to have sc; aside on the ground OF irauu
Il assignment Of NJ. & f. Solomon, tobacco importers
Who failed last January, with liabilities of 100000
ard assets OF 100000 has failed. Justice lngrahain'
OF the supreme Court, yesterday decided the case IN
favor of the defendants and sustained the assignment
In the suit of Mcn Mclaughlin and Garrett Reilly
to obtain from o'Brcn Clark. the contractors,
100000 for work on the aqueduct Justice
Patterson, In the supreme Court, Chambers, yes
tcraay reserved his decision motion made on
behalf Of the defendants TO change the venue to
westchcster County, where nearly all the witnesses
live.
Argument on tho point raised in the test case
Of Charles Meyer, Hquor-dealer No SOB six'h-ave.'
that his license eou.l not be revoked ior seihhg
honor on Sunday and could only be taken away for
selling between and > O'Clock In the morning, as
the law now stanls was be argued In the superior
Court before Justice Durro Yesterday. BY consent
OF counsel the case postponed until next week
Frederick T. whitney, OF the firm of +. f. Whit
ney & Co.. pancr manufacturers maze an assisimoh'
yesterday without preferences, to William X "A.
Koehl Anna Stockton, dealer in wines and liquors,
Nos. 80 lie and al Bowery, assigned to August
schwab, giving preferences for sl,0I3
Mrs. Kate Hogan obtained asverdict for 81 500 In
lie surrcme Court yesterday after thai before Justice
andrews, in sui, against David Henderson s an,
o;AeIs Ter fuSsapl ? loneshorcnah, anu Isli
into tho hold Of the steamship Dcyonia, In lSoi,
h,dse Bsown. Of tie City Court hes appointed
Arthur H. Elcy receiver Of the property of ex.Con.
prcssman Abram Waterman, under Judgment re-
g. Sco sss lad him examined in supplementary
pfoteedines and he testified that ne hao no M
and that judgments amounting 70 nearly Sioo ,yo
lad been entered against him within The last eight
years
UNITED STATS SUPREME COURT
Washington Jan 1.-The following business was tans-
acted IN the supreme Court Of United States to-day
No s4s1-tni,ed States ex rel Mary +. Levey,
psaip,r n error acE NJ. Stocksiager, Commissioner,
etc lotion 70 Granted and eauso assigned for
arrpHens January 81
No fG4-TAo Coiins Company ajpcllant a9t Lorin9
Cqes & Company. Argued
~. tG5-Tha Morley Sewing Machine Company ana
vhcss. appellants, aer Charles b. Lancaster. Argued.
TIE COURT OF APPEALS.
Albany. n. Y. JaA. Ii-.roiicwhg is Court Of
Appeals day caenssF isr JaSaasg IA:
Nos. 1.3cT. 1.Scs, 40. 81. So 10, III and IFS.
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