The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-01-09
Or. by cash,

make all the promised repairs. besides
YOU maintained nuisance on your adj
joining premises. You are really not en-
titled to anything.
PdiptiT-$200 was the price agreed
upon. made all changes and repairs |
agreed to. You have no right to charge
for your own repairs. | have right to
charge for rent a month In advance.
Defendant-I impeach your reputation
for truth and veracity.
COurt.-The plaintiff cannot recover In
this case for reut after the date of the writ
Verdict for
Harrington for plaintiff
Waltons for defendants.
Saturday, Jan. Emma A, Burton ct
ais. vs.. Mary f. Farnum.
Seven OF the eight children of the late
Charles Farnum of Pitts6eld bring this
action to recover from the defendant, the
second wife of their father, the home
farm. The plaintiffs read ceed to their
father and show that they are his chill
dren and stop. The defendant reads
iced from Charles Farnum to her dated
April 10, 1884 and stops. The plaintiffs
lay true, your deed is in proper form, but
was frandulently procured, the grantor
WIS NV Vi oouuu Ililuu, anu as uHuuly
Influenced.
The following is the description In the
Iced:
I'm consideration of fifty dollars (etc.,
etc. } lot containing III acres more or less
,ud being all Of my homestead farm; also
Ill of my household furniture and goods
and all my stock, carriages and farm.
Ing tools, farming implements, hay, grain
and all personal estate Of every name and
nature owned by me and on said home
stead farm also one pew In Universalist
meeting. house In Pittsneld and all my in
terest in said meeting house."
Charles Farnum. the grantor In the
Iced in question, was born Oct. 81, 1903,
lied Feb. 16, 1887. His first wife. the
mother Of the plaintiffs, died In 1876.
some two years after her death the de-
PENDANT, then widow, went to live with
aim as housekeeper and after some three
months acquaintance in that capacity,
married him Sept. IA, 1873, she then being
30 and he 10 years of age. After living
| together some six years, he gave the deed
in question covering property real and
personal, varlously estimated at four or
| five thousand dollars. After his death
and after the serving of the writ In this
| case, she married third husband, Mr..
| A. Is. Shaw, June 10, 1888
The evidence showed that the heirs, all
but one son, Charles, took the marriage
nf the father unkindly and ware not ON
visiting terms with father or step mother
! and that the defendant took good care OF
him till his death.
As an episode In the case, the witness
Charles s. Taylor from Palermo, tells his
story. He went to work on the farm in
question sometime after Mr.. Farnum's
| death aud made love as he thought with
| the widow, some twenty years his senior
He says they were afilanced, though he
shuddered at the term, till it was ex-
planned to mean nothing but an engage
ment Of marriage. There was evidence
that he did ride about the country with
her, "to soften the asperities of hay
making" and as he says, she In conf.
dence revealed the arts by which she
persuaded the old man to make her al
most his sole heir.
The widow afterwards Tilted him and
married Mr.: Shaw. Taylor became dis
consulate, sued her for breach of prom
ise and a. witness In this case reveals
her secrets. The defendant stoutly de-
MES that she was ever engaged to Mr..
Taylor.
The verdict In the case of Burton ct
ais vs.. Farnum, Is for defendant she did
not disseize the plaintiffs.
d. d. Stewart for Plaintiffs.
Merrill Coffin for Defendant.
In the case of Charles s. Taylor vs..
Mary Il. Shaw, Mr.. Shaw compromised
by paying the plaintiff 1926 and the case is
to be entered by neither party.
Leonard II. Wheeler vs.. Henry K
Sawyer, account annexed for materials
for plant for wind mill for pumping
water several items amounting to,
1854 80
Credit, 1913.
Then an item of $500 for mill contract
price. The following letter contains the
written contract. 1t Is agreed that the
100 Dbl. tank Is the one undertaken to be
furnished under the contract.
CONTRACT.
Boston, Mass. 9-lO-'S8,
MIR. H. X. SAWYER:
NorridgewOck, Me.
Dear Sir We will erect
for you at your place In Norridgewock,
one Of our IA IT. mills mounted upon a
substantial tower 60 #. high and connect
ed to one of our 3xS double acting
pumps, we to be to every expense con
nected with the building of the tower
snd placing the mill and pump In COM
plete working order. We are also to pro-
vide and lay from the spring to the reser.
voir an inch and a half galvanized iron
pipe providing all the fittings necessary
to connect this pipe In the best manner
possible with the pump and the tank.
We are toprovlde In this pipe two gate
valves one to be located At the tanks and
the other at the pump, SO that the water
can be cut of at either end Of the pipe az
~ y be desired. We will also erect for
you one of our l4xl4 frost proof tanks
mounted upon suitable substructure 10
II. high above the ground and resting on
good cedar posts set In the ground, tank
to be covered with our regular frost proof
roof and the pipes from the ground to
the tank to be enclosed In frost proof
box snbstructure to be framed out of
good spruce timber not planed. We to
furnish all the material and labor rec
essary to place this reservoir in running
order with pipes connected. We to
guarantee the whole to be frostproof and
The tanks water tight when completed,
The windmill tower to be framed from
rough spruce timber thoroughly spiked
together and will rest on good cedar or
hack posts. 1t Is understood that we
are to be to every expense connected with
the placing of the mill, pump and reser. |
voir and furnishing and laying the pipe
with everything In complete working
order, while you are to furnish the well |
TO pump from, 1T for the pump and also |
do all excavating for the pipe and for |
foundations for windmill, tower and
tank substructure and provide for the car
tage Of all materials from depot In Norri.
dgewock TO place where they are to be
erected.
In consideration Of the faithful per-
lormance on our part Of the above con-
'ract you are to pay US In full within six
months, the sum Of $3.50 for this plant
With l2xl2 tank or $500 with . i4xl4
auk. With the smaller tank we guarau.
20 the plant to furnish an average of 75
ibis, Of water daily and with the larger
ank 100 bbls. daily.
Yours Truly,
L. H. WHEELER.
Defense. The tank was not tight and
'ot frost proof. The windmill would
l0t work With . light breeze q you prom
~. = would not average to pump 100
,asrsls . day.
Reply. Ton ray in your lettsr Of Nov.
.. leoo, that the windmill works we'll,
~ doses ~ ability 70 pump the quantity
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