Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21
SIFTINGS FROM JUSTICE.
Various Notes AbOut Litigation, with n
Few Instructive Results.

Various Notes Abont Litigation, With n
Few Instructive Results.
HENRY KNoPP was yesterday appointed
Supervisor of Moon township, in place of
James Sterling resigned.
A SESSION of the Moot Court was held
yesterday in the Orphans Court room. There
was an argument for a uon-suit in the damage
case of Mekeady VS. Silvey. John G. Shoe
maker, Esq, acted as Judge.
WILLIAM DRAPER, who pleaded guilty to
voluntary manslaughter for shooting George
Whalen at Toms Run, June @, 1888, was sem
fenced to the penitentiary for two years and
three months by Judge Magee.
QUITE number of applicants for naturali-
zation were before Judge Magee yesterday.
NJ. B. c. Christy questioned them about the
County Liquor League paying for the naturali-
cation, but they all denied this. stating that
they were paying for their own papers.
A VERDICT was rendered yesterday in the
case of John Bandroff against the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, which was tried Thursday,
giving Bandroff $3.50 damages. Bandrofs s suit
was for damages for having been elected from
a train. At the time he fell over an embank-
ment breaking his leg.
JUDGE EWING yesterday handed down an
opinion refusing to grant a preliminary in
junction against the Pennsylvania Salt Com
pany who were proceeded against by the Arnold
Coal Company Tor maintaining nuisance at
the odor from which was alleged to have killed
the vegetation.
WILLIAM G. SPEAKMAN, of North Yer
saiiles township, yesterday filed petition ask
ing that his wife, Rose Ella Speakman, who has
become insane, be committed to Dixmont. He
stated that he was unable to care for her, and
wanted her committed as charge of the
county. After hearing the case Judge Magee
granted the petition.
JUDGE AcHEsoN. of the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday rendered a decision in
the cross snits between the owners of the steam.
boats City of CHARTERS and the Tillie for dam
ages resulting from collision, for which each
lie was held to be at fault, and Judgment was
ordered in favor of the City of CHARTERS for
sl2O q.
THE attorneys for the prosecution in the case
of A. B. Starr fled bill of particulars yester-
day, In which they state that they expect to
prove that Superintendent Starr issued an
order forbidding bell-ringing or blowing of
whistles on the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and
Chicago Railroad within the limits of Ale
gheny City, and by reason of which Harriet
Weyman and John NJ. Culp lost their lives.
JUDGE EWING yesterday banded down an
opinion in the equity suit of @. 6. Dixon against
William Mcclure, Frank Freyvogle, Peter
Quinn and the Duquesne National Bank for
the recovery of money embezzled by Quinn
the legal decision, and ordered the bill to be
dismissed at Mr.. Dixon's cost. The Judge in
timated very strongly that both Mcclure and
Freyvogle falsifed in their testimony.
MRS. BARBARA DIRALL yesterday filed an
answer to the petition of Humane Agent
o'Brien, presented in the Orphans Court, al
leging that she maintained her three young
children in disorderly house. Mrs. Dirall de-
nies nearly all the allegations against her, and
asserts that she loves her children and has
labored hard to keep her children clean, COM
Portable and happy, and has sent them to school
and provided well for them. She asks that the
proceedings be dismissed. The case will be
heard next Friday.
JUDGE ACHEsoN, of the United States Dis
tr1ct Court, yesterday handed down an opinion
in the case of T. NJ. Jenkins & Co. against the
steamers Barnard and James Gilmore The
suit was for damage to a feet of towboats,
caused by the Barnard grounding her tow on
bar at Wheeling Island, the James Gilmore
atterward running into the tow. Judge Ache
son decided that the accident was due to bad
management of the Barnard, also holding the
James Gilmore culpable. The amount claimed
was S77S go. The James Gilmore was ordered
to pay $50 and .one-fourth the cost of the suit,
and the Barnard to pay the balance.