The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-09
MRS. HAaooD GETS NOTHING.
Her Suit for Being Thrown Out of Her
House Decided for the Defendant.

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Her Suit for Being Thrown Out of Her
House Decided for the Defendant.
The interesting damage suit of Mrs.
Mary M. Hagood vs.. A. H. Entelman and
Mrs Cook, involving the relations of
landlord and tenant in a very peculiar
manner, was taken up in the city court
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, and was
not concluded until after O'Clock last
night, when a verdict for the defendant
was brought in by the jury.
1t VIII be remem bered that Mrs. Hagood,
the true and lawful wife of the celebrated
major or that name, who IS heard of one
month IN Texas and the next in Canada,
fell somewhat behind in her rent last
July, and her landlord pressing her, she
told him she was unable to pay it then.
| The next DAY he brought two negroes to
the house which he found locked, 'and one
OF them he sent around to the back door
over the fence with instructions to get
| into the house as best he could and to put
the tenants out.
Mrs. Hagood charged that this negro
climbed into her window into her room
while she was dressing, and when asked
what he wanted, was told that he had
come under order of his master to put
her and her family out He then went to
the front door and let in the other negro,
and they at once proceeded TO do as told
by Entelman. Her furniture was all put
into the street, she says, on hot July
day, where she was compelled to remain
from early morning until late in the
afternoon. Her furniture too, she says,
was damaged in the sum of $780, and the
lndignities and other damages heaped on
her run the amount for which she asked
up to $1,000
A number of witnesses were put on the
stand, some to testify as to the rough
manner in which Mrs. Hagood was
treated and others who testified that she
hotly insulted Entelman when he came TO
the house, using the vilest epithets. This
she and her mother, also Witness de-
MED most emphatically. Entelman said
That she had taken possession of the
house without his consent in the first
place, but he had received rent from her.
and that Of course amounted to a contract
having been made, as he allowed her to
stay
Judge Philip NJ. Russell opened the ar
gument for Mrs. HagOOd, and he referred
to the fact that whena tenant fails to pay
pay that is due the proper course for the
landlord Is to appeal to the judge of the
superior court or to a magistrate, which
had not been done in this case He re-
terred IN eloquent language to the indig-
mites which had been heaped on the
plaintiff, and drew in strong language a
picture of her and her family as they
stood in the street from early morning to
Ndewy eve" He said he did not see how
the jury could, under the circumstances,
do otherwise than grant her a verdict.
1. ). Morgan, Esq, opened the argu-
ment for the defendant, and began by
making certain charges AGAINST the repu-
tatlon and character Of the plaintiff He
charged that Mrs. HagOod knew that En-
lehman was coming to collect the rent or
turn her out, and that she purposely
locked her doors and barred the gate He
charged that she saw, as she thought, a
good suit for damages against Entelman,
and that was the reason why, when put
out OF her house, she remained IN the
street ION hot July day from early morn
until the dew and night and asthma came
on.
He said her own assertions proved that
she had friends to whom she could have
gone, but that she did not do so because
she wanted grounds for q suit against
Entelman. He denied that there was
anything malicious in Entelmans action
in putting her out of the house and held
that it was his right for protection as
landlord in cases where the tenant failed
to pay the rent due. Mr.. Morgan's appeal
in behalf of his client was full of wit and
sarcasm directed against the plaintiffs
cause.
Mr.. r. r. Richards closed for the de-
PENDANT, and was followed by Mr. A c.
Wright, who wound up for the plaintiff
The arguments closed shortly before
O'Clock, and the jury retired, returning
shortly with verdict for the defendant
The counsel for the plaintiff viii make
a motion for new trial at an early
date