St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-03

brious epithets, until she concluded it
was unsafe to live with him any longer,
and therefore sought the court for the
relief of herself and babe. Hoover owns
about $1,000 worth of personal property.
Of this his wife asks part for her sup
port.
Florence Tussner has filed damage
suit against Mrs. Mary J. Shaffer. in
which she asks $1,000 for the utterance
by Mrs. Shaffer of two defamatory sen
fences. She pleads that she is mar
ried woman. and now living with her
husband in thiscitiy. George w. Tuss-
ner, her husband, operates hotel, and
she assists him. During the month of
March, 1889. Mrs. Shatfer, in the pres
ence and hearing of a large number of
persons, maliciously spoke concerning
her false and defamatory words. Here
the complaint exhibits matter wholly
unfit for publication. Mrs. Shaffer,
after venting herself in very prOfane
manner, then told her listeners that
Mrs. TuSsner had run away with man
formerly employed as a bartender. She
also in most bOisterous manner said:
go back to Chicago to your husband
(meaning that Mrs. TuSsner had a huS-
band other than her lawful husband,
with whom she now lives in this city.
For all this Mrs. TuSsner asks the court
to mulct Mrs. Shaffer to the tune of
$1,000.
M. Murphy & Co. have brought suit
against F. l.. Lawrence, police officer of
the municipal court, and n. ID. Baus, of
Minneapolis, to recover 81, 100 damages
for making an alleged malicious levy on
their saloon property on the West side.
Mary Murphy and Nellie P. Landy. the
firm of Murphy q Co., allege that Baus
tried to collect a judgment of $50
against their husbands, and made levy
possession. BauS, thinking it slightly
excessive, released the saloon and took
other property worth about $3.50. The
matter was then contested in the mu-
nicipal court, and the property was
eventually declared to belong to Muir
ply and Landy. Baus then brought
garnlshee proceedings, and this in
YOived the question as to whether the
husband was entitled to pay for services
rendered the wife in the absence of an
express contract-Landy and Murphy
having worked for their wives in the
saloon. Judge Cory decided that they
were not. The damage suit is based
on the ground that the women owned
the property free and clear from any
interests of their husbands.
LEGAL MISCELLANY.
S. B. Woolworth,l upon certificate of
the supreme court of New York and
motion of |. Y. ID. Heard, was admitted
to practice at the bar of the state.
The case of JameSErvine, colored, in
dicted for assault with intent to rape
the person of Christina Johnson, was on
trial before Judge Kelly yesterday. The
case went to the jury late last evening,
and verdict will probably be rendered
to-day.
The damage suit of DR.. C. T. Miller
ress before Judge Kerr.
Judge Villas yesterday heard the case
of Ferdinand B. Smedley against LIE
Grand y. DenSlow, an action to recover
$4,000 alleged to have been fraudulently
and uDlawfully appropriated out of the
sales of property in which Smedley
owned half interest. The case will be
resumed this morning.
In the case of H. Fl. Herbst against
Adolph II. Simon ct al, an action to
recover damages on lease. in which
the jury rendered verdict for Simon,
Judge Wilkin denies Herbst's motion
for a new trial.
John Smith sues the Minnesota Ice
company to recover S111.S0 for services
rendered.
Frank Bidon filed an appeal to the
district court Yesterday in which he
asks that the assessment ordered by the
board of public works for the opening,
widening and extension of Fairview
street, from the intersection of Jackson
street and University avenue, be set
aside.
Barbara Harris sues Richard Lehman
to enJoin him from fOrecloSing a certain
mortgage which he now holds Oh lots
II and ID. blocks Sc and 81, Lyman Day
toms addition. The mortgage, it is al
legged, agreed to extend the term of the
mortgage when it became due, but now
proposes to foreclose.