The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-06
AT THE COURTS.
Gossip Picked Up Here and There in
the Court Rooms.

the Court Rooms.
Deputy United States Clerk Gillespie
opened the circuit court yesterday morning
pursuant TO adjournment. aud in the alb
sence of Judges Pardee and Speer adjourned
the court for the term. The only business
transacted was granting the appeal by
Charles n. West. Esq, counsel for
Cunningham, in the case Of Cunning
ham against the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company ct. al The case will
now go TO the supreme court Of the United
States. The case has been long pending,
and was decided adversely to plaintiff by
Judge Pardee week ago yesterday and
the gist of the decision published in the
MORNING NEWS.
Argument was concluded In the superior
court yesterday in the case of James W.
McAlpin against ID. G. Purse and John c.
Rowland, the court reserving its decision.
The case was certioraried from the joint
court of Justice Samuel Reynolds and JUS
tice Davidson, the cOlOred magistrate, and
is the outgrowth Of a dispute as to title,
certain tenant houses built by Capt. Nc
Alpin on the disputed lands having been
RACED by defendants in the suit. The case
will find its way TO the supreme court, it is
believed, no matter which way Judge Falli-
gant's decision goes.
y
will open tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock,
and adjourn for the term July II.
Henry Bubee, aged As, and at one time a
grocery keeper in Yamecraw, will be the
subject of an inquest of lunacy in the court
Of ordinary at o'clock next Tuesday after
noon.
In the court of ordinary yesterday Judge
Ferrill awarded the custody Of Anna Os-
borne, a colored girl of IA, to Abram Grant,
a aolnraI NIT EClnaan e Nafah,,r,r
for the last ten years. Louisa Osborne, the
mother of Che girl, instituted habeas corpus
proceedings against RhIna Grant, wife of
Abram, for the recovery of the child, whom
the mother had given to Rhina till the
child should come of age, and, repenting OF
the grant when Annie became old enough
to be help to her, tried TO get her back.
The child wanted to stay with the Grants,
remembering the cruel treatment by the
mother.
A number of colored boys were having a
pitched battle with watermelon rinds out
near East Boundary street yesterday after
noon when Officer Clayton came along and
took six Of the crowd in. They were lodged
in the barracks for throwing watermelon
rinds on the streets
Officer Clayton carried Kate Anderson
(colored) into the barracks at o'clock yes
terday afternoon John the Greek, who
hocIo u bbOI6 az Lu6 COTu6E Ol houston ana
South Broad streets, entered a charge
against her for cursing and abusing him in
his own house.
Magistrate Sheftall had his usual Satur-
days docket yesterday. Jonas Mack prose-
cuted Richard Robertson for assault and
battery. Mack and Robertson were part
ners IN the watermelon business Robertson
furnished the money and Mack the expert
ence. with the usual result. Mack turned
iF,gt 20 &hny, ~ II
vestment and then demanded pay for his
services When Robertson refused to put
up any more cash Mack cursed him out and
atterward brought the suit against him,
when be defended himself. The case against
Robertson was dismissed.
Moses Black prosecuted John Nesbit in
Justice Sheftall's court yesterday for point
ing pistol at him. Nesbit met Black at
the corner Of Bryan and Farm streets and
endeayored TO collect Sc 80 which Black
owed him at the point OF pistol. That was
what Black swore. Nesbit proved by wit
nesses that he did not have pistol and did
not point one at Black, and that Black was
a bad character anyhow and owed him S12
Nesbit was discharged.
Josephine Howard gave bond in Justice
SheftalPs court yesterday to keep the peace
toward Annie Phillips
Adeline Pugh, an old colored woman,
DiOuRub du IHuldI bJT6eL VCnQ6r before JUS
tice Sheftall yesterday afternoon. She
bought a pocketbook from the peddler and
put her money, 60 cents, in it. When she
turned aside to buy something else the ped
dler slipped the pocketbook. All he wanted
was her money. The judge compelled the
Indian TO give it up.
The following disposition was made in
the mayors court yesterday morning of
those who drank two much firewater on
the Fourth Joe Freeman, beating his
wife, 500 or thirty days; Ella Harris, sit
ting on her stoop dressed not wisely but
too airily, S15 or thirty days; c. H. Smith
and John Bowles, 81 or fifteen days each:
William Bowles, So or five days, common
DRINKS, and Ed Yeomans and Walsh
Wyley, 81 or three days each for stoning
Bluenstein's store. All the offenders are
colored.
Argument was heard in the superior
court yesterday on a motion for a new trial
by defendant in the case Of the state against
Peter Griffin. Defendant was convicted of
larceny from the Ocean Steamship Com
pany. Judge Falligant took thepapers and
reserved his decision.