The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-09-29
A MIDNIGHT DECISION
At Chambers by Judge Field at
Lexington, Monday Night.
The Decision ReciteS that the
General Offices Shall Stay
Until Term Time.

left Sedalia for Lexington with rail-
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etc. Later on the regular passenger
train took took to the River town
brace Of Sedalia lawyers. Mayor
Stevens and representatives of the
Kansas City Times, Gazette and
BAZoo.
At eight o'clock in the evening the
sheriff proclaimed that court was ION
tap" and all should give due heed.
Geo. P. B. jackson opened the
ball by brief history of the strife
over the general offices at Sedalia, and
John Montgomery, jr., commenced
reading q copy of the motion they
we're about to make, to the end that
the temporary injunction granted Iy
the county court Of Pettis county be
Dissolved or modified to the end that
the general offices Of the NJ, K. & T.
could be removed to Parsons,
Kansas in accordance with the in
structions from the governor of Kan.
sas and the executive committee Of
the NJ. K. & 7. railway company in
New York.
He was frequently interrupted in
the reading by opposite attorneys,
who objected to the reading of various
letters and affidavits. which they
claimed were irrelevant. Their objec-
tions were overruled and the reading
proceeded with, after which MIR.
jackson, on behalf of the railroad
company, made an able argument in
support of his position.
He was followed by Henry Lamm,
G. w. Barnett and j. II. Boutwell,
in behalf of the citizens of Sedalia, all
of whom made fine efforts.
1t was ten minutes before midnight
when the court Strengthened back in
his chair and said
''This is very important question
and as my court in Lafayette county
is in session, l have but little time to
examine into the case, but under the
law | very clearly have no power to
straining order, other than in term
time, hence the motion is overruled."
Court adjourned and everybody
grabbed his hat left the old court
house to the occupancy Of empty
benches and the owls and bats.
The effect of the decision is to keep
the Offices in Sedalia until the case is
reached in its regular course during
the October term of court, which
probably means that it will be come
time in November before another
hearing will be had.
BRIEFS.
Judge Field listented to the At
torneys with great patience. He kept
wide awake.
Col. H. c. Cross, j. Frey, ]. G.
Thompson and Mayor Stevens were
at Lexington last night.
Henry Lamm spoke thirty min
utes, 6. w. Barnett spoke thirty
minutes and j. H. Boutwell, talked to
the court fifteen minutes.
Geo. P. B. jackson addressed
the court nearly two hours and Mr..
Sedgwick closed for the railway
company in speech lasting fifteen
minutes.
The lawyers last night referred to
much law. They resorted to the
books without end and but for the
judge getting sleepy, they would have
been reading at sunrise.
The Methodist preachers and
lawyers, all travelling en- the branch,
were badly mixed up on the train yes.
terday. The reporters and the train
employees could readily sort them out
by the kind of cigars they smoked.
Col. Lamm in his speech last night
before the court at Lexington said
that the gentlemen who preceded
the regular train on a special eat up
all the supper at the Lexington hotel
and left those who had no special
train to pick the bones.
Henry Lamm, G. w. Barnett,
j. H. Boutwell,, c. f.. Yeater and
Geo. Longan were attorneys for the
plaintiff and Jackson and
Montgomery and T. N. Sedg-
wick of Kansas, appeared as at
torneys for the NJ, K Il I. Railway.
GUARANTEED CURE OF LA GRIPPE