The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-20
The Court.

The Court of Common Pleas was con-
vened on Monday morning, Judge
| ". H. Wallace presiding.
The juries were organized with VI: II.
Gary, foreman of jury No. l, and Jas.
| r. Davidson, foreman ofjurv No. ,.
Several jurors did not answer to their
names, and a special venire was drawn
from the five mile box, and the fol-
lowing eight additional jurors were
drawn: d. w. r. kibler, VIM. Folk,
Juo. \. Bass, Noah Ridelhuber. Luther
Fl. Dennis, Epps J. kinard, B. B.
Hunter and Juo. G, Griffin.
Several orders were passed, and on
Monday afternoon the case Of las. G.
Johnson and others, plaintiffs, VS.. Thos.
+. Tarrant, was begun, but on account
OF some irregularities in the commits
sion, was withdrawn from the jury.
On Tuesday morning jury No. 2
was charged with the trial of the case
of w. S. Dobbins, plaintiff, VS.. Lam
bert J. Jones, defendant. This case was
also withdrawn from the jury the judge
having refused to allow the complaint
to be amended.
On Tuesday afternoon the case of J.
VIM. Taylor, plaintiff, against ". G.
Dominick, defendant was taken up.
This was suit brought by Mr.. Taylor
for $1,000 damages for malicious prose
cutOn.
1t will be remembered that in the
spring of 1889 some one broke into and
stole from the smokehouse of Mrs. john
Dominick about 81, 900 in gold. Soon
after this, upon the affidavit of Mr.. W.
| G.. Dominick, a warrant was issued for
| Simon Taylor and his two sons, Robert
and VIM. c. Taylor, and they were
bound over for trial at the July, 1889,
Term of the Sessions Court, on the
charge of burglary and grand larceny.
The grand jury found no bill against
J. w. Taylor and Simon Taylor and
true bill against Robt Taylor, and he
was put on trial and found. not guilty.
w. G. Dominick is a son of Mrs. John
Dominick who lost the money, and S.
P. Taylor married his sister, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Dominick, and Messrs.
Robt. and J. w. Taylor are her grand
children, and nephews of W. c. DOM
inick. The plaintiff, Taylor, was rep
resented by Johnstone & Cromer, and
the defendant, Dominick, was rep
resented by Blease & Blease.l
The case has excited some interest.
The following is the jury that was
charged with the trial of the case: 0.
NJ. Jameson, foreman, J. Willie Cald-
we'll, J. Craig Gary, Geo. +. Abrams,
w. NJ. Lester, S. l.. Atchison, J. \.
Bass, Jno. w. Chapman, J. H. Dennis,
Bruce Cannon, B. B. Hunter and
John H. Harmon.
The jury after being out for a short
| time returned verdict for the plain
tiff of 81 800.
Four arguments were made in the
case. George Johnstone opened and
was followed by Cole. L. Blease and
Harry H. Blease. George B. Cromer
closed.
The next case was Briggnlan VS. Phi
fer, for the recovery of horse and dam
age. The jury returned verdict for
the plaintiff for the recovery of the
horse or its value, $3.50.
Thus ended the jury cases, and the
jurors received their pay certificates
and were discharged yesterday after
noon.
The Court will remain in session
several days yet to hear causes that can
be tried without a jury.
In the case of Taylor VS.. Dominick,
mentioned above, Messrs. Blease d
Blease, attorneys for the defendant.
have served notice Of motion for
new trial