St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-16
ANCIENT ASSIGNMENT
Coming Up Again to- Bring in AL
the Parties in In
tereSt.
Damages and Debts Fill Up the
Measure of Court
News.

The ancient assignment of Walker.
| Judd u NeaZie, former Saltwater
| lumber firm, is being investigated in
! Judge BrillS court. and a number of
/ prominent attorneys are engaged in the
case, which is entitled, HIler Horton,
as receiver Of the firm named, against
| Austin p. jerks. assignee, and the Ma
! tional Germa "-Amercan bank. The
| firm named an assignment several
| years ago, W ic included only the firm
assets. 1t was Irged that to make the
assignment valid 1t should have also
/ included the personal effects of the
| individual members of the firm. Upon
| appeal to the supreme court this theory
| was taken by that court. The object of
the present litigation is TO bring in all
| the parties in interest, and adjudcate
! the rights of the firm, as well as the
| individual partners.
| Margaret Whitacre was given an OPP
pOrtunity yesterday of relating her
| grievances against CardoZa q Son to
| Judge Willis and a jury, who will deter
mine her right to $40, as the value of
her household effects. The woman does
| dreSsmaking for support, and while out
| pursuing her calling one day her hus-
band disposed of her goods to Cardoza &
/ Son, who packed them up and carted
| her husband had no right to sell the
| goods or give permission to have them
| carried away, and she demands their re-
! turn or else their value III coin of the
realm.
| G.. w. Youngman has attached t he eff
fects of K. X. Pierce to satisfy claim of
| Sl07.73 due on promiSsOry note given
to A. r. Bushnell, and assigned to
Youngman.
p. j. Wright, T. A. Lawson and f. A.
| Mccarthy have begun an action against
Arthur IL. MerO5ray. L. Il. Doouner and
! John FL. Murray, cO-partnerS as the
| Western Loan company. The court is
asked to order notes given by w. K.
| Ford aggregating 5000, to be sur
| rendered and Cancelled, and to enjoin
| the defendants from negotiating the
same. The notes draw uSuriOuS interest
at the rate of 96 per cent per annum.
! The plaintiffs are Sureties on the notes
and claim they have been paid by Ford.
Jefferson & Kasson have begun an
action against Matthias Leithauer and
others to enforce Il specific lien for
S24S.5S.
/ The Electrical Age Publishing COM
pany asks for Judgment against the
| Bates q Blake Electric Railway Conduit
company for $500, for advertising III the
Street Railway News.
Jonn d. Barrett has begun actions
against the Atlas Assurance Company
| of London and the Orient Insurance
| Company of Hartford Conn.,, to recover
$1,000, the insurance on the Church of
ST. George. Barrett loaned the Churc h
$1,000, and when it burned he had only
! the claim for insurance as surety for
his loan.
Ida NJ. Andrews has begun suit for
divorce from James W. Andrews be,
cause of desertion. They were married
at Detroit. Mich. in 1882. The husband
deserted his wife in 1886 She is twenty
five and he twenty-seVen years old.
Peter Lanai has begun an action
against Thomas w. Morris to recover
SO on promissory note.
The jury is out in the case of Marga.
ret O'Malley against the owners of the
Metropolitan hotel, brought to recover
injuries for foot crushed in freight
elevator.
In the case of Thomas O'Toole against
Donohue and Hoffman, the jury re-
turned a verdict in favor of the defend
ants.
Judge Otis has taken under advise
ment the matter of the will of the late
John Egan.
Judge Otis is engaged with the dis
pute between Henry CARING and FLOYD
w. Horton. The men were partners as
photographers and fell out. This suit
it to compel an accounting of the part
neTShip business.