Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-23
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court - Civll Side - Judg
 ROblNSOu.

superior Court - Oivll Side - Judge
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 The suit ot Horace Wall against F. F. Proctor and Dr. Paul Skiff for quarters rent, $1, 200, which he claims due him by Mir. Proctor according to the terms of his lease with Dr. Skiff, was on trial all day yester- day. MT. Wall testified that he received @ letter, dated October 3, 1889, from MT. Proc tor in reference to the rent money of the opera house. He called on Dr. Skiff and asked him what was the meaning of the letter. He demanded an explanation as to how the rent should be paid. Dr. Skif said that it was to be paid to him. I told him, continued Mr. Wall, that was entitled to my share and that his action was entirely at variance with the conditions of my lease of the house. All he said was he expected me to be and not MT. Proetor or sybody else. replied that under the conditions of the sub-lease the attractions booked were fully as good as formerly, and under tho new conditions as pre- viously. asked Dr. Skif again If he was going to give mo any share of the money re- ceived from Mir. Proctor and he answered that he didn't know. When I saw 1t was useless to argue further with him, said that I would then have to appeal to the courts for the collection of my claims. He told me hadn't better for would get the worst of 1t.
 A lengthy letter written by Mr. Wall to Dr. SkiH was then read. It stated the terms which Mr. Wall offered for the house. These terms, he testified, were then perfectly sstis- factory to Dr. SkiR. He accordingly took charge and sublet the thsater to Mir. Proc tor at $5,600, of which $2,500 was ! hold himself responsible for the theater and 1 see that everything was the same as when he wAs directly managing the house. He in- formed Dr. Skif when he was negotiating for sub-leaaing the theater both to Ar. Proc- l tor and to MT. Jacobs, who was formerly MT. Proot0r's partner in the theatrical business Telegrams and other documentary evidence attorney, to prove that the negotiations be- tween MT. Wall and Nr. Proctor were well known to Dr. Skiff. Nr. Wall, to offset the insinuation of Dr. SkiA, testifisd that what ever property he removed from the theater after the falling out between the two was not done eurreptitiously. but in daylight. He further told the court that he had some in- terest in the scenery and pictures in the opera house at present.
 Attorney Alling made an agument of about half an hour after MT. Wall left ths stand. He reviewed the evidence in the case and attempted to demonstrate that Dr. SkiH was perfectly right in refusing to allow MT. Wall to sublst the house.
 Attorney Goodhart for Mir. Wall made a | strong argument for his client. He claimed that it had been clearly shown by evidence that Dr. Skif had not been straightforward in this transaction and that he had leased the house to Nr. Proctor when he was perfectly aware that Mr.Wall held five years' lease of l the house. In this transaction, said the attor- | nsy, the doctor fell e victim to the same thing before which men greater than he had fallen. He had forgotten his hitherto manly straightforwardness and had been led to . wrong deed by avaxioe. The attorney could
 see no grounds upon which the case should go against his client.
 Court or Common PIeas-Civil Side l Judge Ssldley.
 | In the suit of Honmeister vs. Wslch late
 yesterday afternoon, Judge Studley non-
 suited the plaintiff.
 Cisy Court - Criminal side - Judge
 Wilber F. Graves, pon-support of wife, | continued to May 24; Michael Neagle, giv. ing false certificate of child, $7 fine, $7.8a
 costs; Cyril Barnvell, trespass on railroad
 cars, $7 fine, $5. 4s costs; Michael Hamilton,
 breach of the peace against Jacob
 Greenhouse, $1 Ane, S6.24 costs;
 George L. Taylor, injury to private
 building, g fine, $7.06 costs; Catherine l jail; Charles Lynch, theft from Archibald
 McArthur, 80 days in jail, $7 fine, $7.06
 costs; Stephen Dunn, breach of the peace
 against Robert Dunlap, S8 fine, g. 06 costs;
 Robert Dunlap, breach of the peace against
 Stephen Dunn, S5 fine, g 98 costs; John
 Collins, resisting Officer Albert Gates, con-
 tinued to April %.