The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-25
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

The Jury in the case of the Baltimore Copper
Smelling and Rolling Company VS.. the Eureka
Fertilizer Company, which was reported last
week, brought in Il sealed verdict. on Friday
morning, in favor of the plaintiff for $500.
On Saturday morning the appeal docket WAS
taken up and continued until wednesday. The
following cases were disposed of:
Lawton Mervale Hartman VS.; John X.
for anpeliant, Preston for appellee
Arthur E. Edie VS.. George Bennington; dis
missed for non-payment OF costs. Hmkle and
VanBibber for appellant, j. w. McNabb for
Harrison Preston vs. Walter Slade; stet. f.
H. Webster of ]. for appellant, S. A. Williams
George a. Forwood VS.. Joseph S. Pogue &
Son; quashed. YanBibber and 5. A. Williams
for appellant, Maynadier for appellees.
jeremiah Horn vs. Nicholas Mires; judgment
affirmed. ]. NJ. McNabb for appellant, 5. A.
Williams for appellee.
William Denbow VS.. James ID. Bailey; 1udg-
ment reversed and Judgment for appellee for
costs Sitter for appellant, HAWKINS Tor ap-
| pellee.
BENJAMIN B. Butler VS.. George Robinson;
| jury trial verdict for appellant. Rutledge and
! S. A. Williams for appellant, Dallam Rouse
| for appellee ,
jury trial verdict for appellee for $40. Rogers
| for appellant, Young for appellee.
Isaac Brown vs. the First National Bank of
Aberdeen; Judgment of nOn-suit. Rogers Tor
| appellant, Dallam Rouse for appellee.
| George Robinson vs. Benjamin Ii. Butler;
| Judgment affirmed by agreement. Dallam u
The case of James Whitaker VS.. Dora Gahr-
| mann, which was the last appeal tried, aroused
| considerable interest in the Big Woods neigh
| borhood, where all the parties live and occu-
| pied nearly two days, being finished at noon on
| Wednesday. In this case Mrs. Gahrmann testi-
| fed that she owned nine head of stock, and
| while she was driving them along the road two
cows and one heifer jumped in Mr., Whitaker's
| field and were shot by him, from the effects of
| which they died few days later.
| DIR. Henry Bauer, Il veterinary surgeon, teS-
| titled that he had examined the carcasses of the
| cattle at Mrs. Gahrmanns request, and found
| that they had died from the effects of shot
| which had entered their TANKS, cutting the
| bowels The wounds had evidently been made
| about Il week
Mr.. Whitaker admitted having shot at the
| cattle, but said he used fine shot ut II distance
| of rs yards. Other witnesses testified to hay
| ing shot the cattle, but none since last fall.
The jury gave Mrs Gal Gahr tnan tr verdict Tor
| awarded by Justice Richardson, and $50 less
| than claimed
Preston and Maynadier for appellant VAN
| Bibber and Lee for appellee.
| On Wednesday the case of State VS.. Albert
Jackson, for felonious assault, was taken up
| and tried before jury. States Attorney
| Preston appeared for the StaEc and Gilbert S.
| Hawkins and J. RGyston Stifier for the defense.
| speech in court, and acquitted himself
| very creditably, receiving hearty congratulate
tions from his friends. Nevertheless, the jury
said guilty"
On Thursday the case of State VS.. Henry
| Morgan, colored, for violating the local option
law, was tried before jury. Verdict guilty.
Preston for the State, Robinson for the de-
Tense.
The case of the State VS.. Daniel X. Burrell,
for selling whiskey without Il physician
| license, was tried on Thursday afternoon be-
| fore the court. Verdict not guilty. Preston
for the State, ]. J. Archer and Cooley for the