Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-27
Lines from LEGAL Quarters,

The jury is out in the case of Nicholas Koe
mig against the Charters Valley Gas Company
ANNA M. HERN, executrix of ]. K. Hern,
Yesterday received verdict for sS26 10 against
Catharine c. Hern in suit on mortgage.
A VERDICT for the defendant was rendered
in the suit Of the Allegheny Valley Railroad
Company against e. C.Dickey to determine the
title to lot Of ground in Lawrenceville.
ENGINEER THOMAS GATES yesterday en-
tered suit against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
injuries received in a wreck that occurred on
November 25, 1887, near Wallace station.
In the Criminal Court yesterday John Klep-
ner, who was tried for selling Aquor on Sunday
and selling to persons of known incorporate
habits, was acquitted on the first charge and
found guilty OF selling to intemperate persons.
THE suit of Robert Gardner against R. G.
Ferguson for damages for SANDER is on trial
before Judge Slagle. The case is the first of
its kind to be tried in Allegheny county. and
is exciting a good deal of interest, as it brings
out the question of the legality of sending
.'bad debit letters in labeled envelopes to
debtors by collecting agencies.
A SUIT growing out of a fight between two
crowds of boys in Allegheny is on trial
in the Criminal Court. One of the boys,
H.
breast and badly hurt during the fight, and
Andrew Quigley, John McMasters. Leonard
Keller and Milton Katz are being tried for
felonious assault and battery as result
WALTER MARKHAM yesterday entered suit
against the Pennsylvania Company for $4,000
damages He claims that he was injured by
being jolted from handcar near Kenwood
station. The accident; he asserts, was caused
by the carelessness Of Ben Hardy, section
foreman, who was under the influence of
liquor, and who applied the brake on the car
suddenly
j. 8. FERGUSON, ESQ, yesterday applied for
writs of certiorari in the cases of Philip Rup-
pert, R. R. Brown and James Brady, who were
convicted before Alderman Carlisle of selling
oleomargarine. The certiorari will bring into
court the alderman's records in the cases when
the matter comes to be passed upon by the
Judges. The writs are granted on allegations
of errors in the proceedings before the alder
man.
A. II. RowAND, ESQ, representing the citi-
zens Of the First ward, Verona, and George P.
Graver, representing the citizens of the Second
ward of the same borough. engaged in an ar
gument before Judge Collier yesterday after
noon as to the right of taxation on certain
S24S5 80. 1t seems that some two years ago
$4,000 was appropriated for street improve
ments and 81, 4S5 81 more was expended in the
Second than in the First ward; therefore. the
First ward citizens are protesting against being
taxed for that amount.
THE case of DR.. W. L. Penney against 8. P
Anderson, E. B. Todd GP. Perkins and William
Murdoch for $50, 900 damages for false arrest and
imprisonment in the Murdoch bunko case, was
taken up before Judge Stowe in Common Pleas
Court No. yesterday afternoon. The prose-
cution is represented by William NJ. Price and
the defense by John s. Robb and A. l. Ewing.
The first witness called was Alderman NJ. F,
Cassidy, who, in answer to questions. stated
that there was an information made before him
by William Murdoch against DR.. Penney and
afterward another Information was made by E.
B. Todd. This last information he filed himself
in the Office of the Clerk of Courts Mr.. Price
here stated to the, Court that the books of the
Clerk of Courts had been examined, but that
the information against DR.. Penney could not
be found, and had in some manner mysterious
ly disappeared, as stated in THE DISPATCH
yesterday. The court at this point adjourned
until this morning.