San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-02
THE COURTS.
Doings in the Halls ofJustice.

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The following new suits have been
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S. P. Maury VS.. the county of Bexar,
for debt and for damages. The plain
tiff was the contractor for the bridge
over the San Juan creek and at the
request of the county commissioner g
expended $l175 over the contract
price, which extra expense the COM
missiOners refused to pay, and plain
tiff sues fof that amount and for $4,000
damages.
Geo. Thompson We. the Texas Land
and Cattle company, for damages re-
sulting from breach Of contract.
Plaintiff and defendant entered in
1885 into a contract, by which the
plaintiff was to pasture 1000 head
of cattle for defendant in the Chero-
kee Strip, Indian Territory. The
company, however, failed to fulfill its
part of the contract, and plaintiff
wants $l40O due him and such dam
ages as the court will allow.
Fifty-nine civil cases, some of them
having been on the docket for the
past twenty years. have been trans
ferred from the Th1rty-seventh to the
Forty-fifth district court.
Before Justice McAllister yesterday
afternoon Mrs. Long was charged
with secreting property not her own.
Later in the day, her daughter, Mrs.
j. F. Durken, was charged before the
same court with assault on 0. r. Dun
ming, by Shaping him in the face.
The judge gives the particulars of the
case as follows:
Mr.. Dunning was boarder at the
house and mad quit and paid up. He
bought q lot of clothes from a mer-
chant and they we're sent to his for.
mer boarding house. When Mr..
Dunning heard of it, he went to get
them but the landlady would net
give them up, and to the officer WHO
afterward went for them she refused
also. A search warrant issued and
served on the ladies was treated like
wise and the officer returned non.
plussed. Finally the elder lady came
into court and said her daughter
would give up the clothes If the
Judge gave the officer an order for
them. This he did, but the officer
was again refused, and finally only
brought her by peremptory
arrest on charge of slapping
Mr.. Dunning's face. For this
she paid in fine and costs $lT.05 and
said she would have gladly paid Sl0o
if she could have got in lone good
SLAP"
An inquest was held by the JUS
tice this morning Oh the body OF an
old Mexican woman named Ysabela
Riviera, aged so years, who died of
old age and rheumatism.
Before Justice Heron the only
business transacted was the allowing
of bond of 81 900 in the case of Joe
Fits, the waiter, who is charged with
shooting Ransom Coleman, the negro
cook.
Before the Recorder there were II
cases, ten of which we're fined. six
dismissed and one continued. Fines
amounted to $42.
Among the delinquents who fell
under the eagle eyes of the police
were Richard PatZig, who was before
the mogul on the charge of block
aiding Military plaza with wagons:
Rose Lindsay, colored, who inhabits
the unsanitary precinct known as the
Corral" was up for discharging fire
arms, i. e., a pistol, last night. She
pleaded that 1t was an accident.
Dionicio Sepulvera was on hand to
say why he interfered with the
licensed dog catcher yesterday for
catching his unlicensed dog, and why
he ran at the city gaucho and chased
him up street, sans dog, sans rope,
sans everything, with long butcher
knife. He said lot in Spanish and
was fined S. for not saying what the
recorder thought was the proper ex-
cuse.
w. Mobiles has been arrested for
thaft Of goo fronn Tom Dunbar