Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-17
REMARK ABLE LAWSUIT. A Barber Fined for Shaving Only Half
 of a Customers Face.

of a Customers Face.
 HARTFORD, Sept. 16.-There was great excitement in Windsor yesterday over one of the most remarkable suits on record. Some weeks ago Elijah Ravens, republi can, got into discussion with William Dibble, democrat, while the latter was shaving him in his barber shop. When Ravens was half shaved Dibble got mad and ordered him from the shop. Havens brought suit for breach of contract and appeared in court yesterday with six weeks growth of beard on one cheek and four weeks growth of beard on the other. Justice Albee heard the evidence and said:
 "My mind is clear that Dibble was guilty of 8 breach of contract in not finishing the shave. My mind is equally clear that he had great provocation for not doing so. But, while this is so, doubt if he was right in subjecting the plaintiff to public ridicule. It would have been better to have finished shaving him, and then met him in meadow somewhere. I do not see how I can do other than find for the plaintiff, for there was certainly breach of contract, but will make the damage nominal, for don't blame the defendant I therefore. awarded damages of $2 and order the defendant to pay the costs" OG For Allessandro, Near Redlands. Lieutenant Charles s. Gray of Howard avenue, whose coming departure with his family to California from this city, where they have for years been so highly esteem ed, was chronicled yesterday, will be much missed in Dwight Place church, where bott MT. and Mrs. Gray have long been efficient workers, and they will leave many friends l and well-wishers behind. Lieutenant Gray's old comrades of the Fifteenth c. V ] wish him the full measure of prosperity that from all indications awaits him anc his in the Golden state. Mr. Gray and fam lily will locate in Allessandro, Cal, neal Redlands, and will have not few old New Haven friends within easy reach of tha locality, in addition to which social sur roundings they will be located nea, members of their own family, theil daughter and her husband, MT. and Mrs l Charles Richards, whose brilliant wed ding here couple. of years ago is well re membered in this city, being residents near by. MT. Richards, after graduating | gagged in the wholesale jewelry business conducted there by his father, one of tht leading men in the trade at the Hub. Fol months past he has been prominently en gagged under most favorable auspices as fruit grower in Allessandro, op his ow1 plantation, and MT. Gray having pur chased plot of ten acres will engage 1T the same business, and has one O. the pleasantest residences in that section il course of construction and nearly ready for occupancy. These fruit farms art irrigated by means of the water from th' Bear Valley dam, in which so many in New Haven and vicinity are financially interested. Mrs. Gray returned recently from three months stay with MT. ano Mrs. Richards. MT. and Mrs. Gray leave for Allessandro about the middle of Oc- tober, after paying visit to Bedding Conn.,, where Mr. Gray was born ane raised, he being the son of the late Samue s. Gray, who was for many years highly l esteemed resident of that place.