San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-07
NEWS OF THE COURTS.
Mrs. Worthy Gets a Verdict for
$9,OOO-Other News,

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$9,ooo-other News.
The damage suit OF Mrs. G. A.
Worthy, widow OF the late II. G.
Worthy, engineer on the Southern
Pacific, who was killed near Schu-
lenburg about four years ago,
against the Galve ston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio Railway COM
pany, was tried by jury in the
Thirty-seventh District court this
morning. The case went to the
jury this afternoon and verdict
was brought in for plaintiff for 49,
600. Mrs. Worthy is the mother Of
four minor children, who were also
parties to the suit. The amount
sued for was $4,000. The case has
been tried before and verdict rem
dered for plaintiff for $4,000.
FoRTY-FIFTH DISTRICT COURT.
A case of w. G. Long vs.. the
Great Northern and San Antonio
Railway Co., suit for damages in
the sum Of $1O.22O is on trial be-
fore jury in Judge Newton's court.
Plaintiff alleges in the petit
ton that last October l he was
riding from Houston to San
Antonio over defendant company's
line and that Emmett Townsend
boarded the train at Weimar, I'M
der the influence Of liquor. He
further alleges that Townsend was
walking through the cars, when
he dropped a pistol, which ex-
ploded, and that the bullet struck
plaintiff in the heel of the right
foot, and has never been found,
and Is still in his foot.
The jury brought In verdict for
defendant in the case Of the Inter
national Building and Loan asso-
citation vs.. George G. Braden ct al,
suit for debt and foreclosure Of
lien.
SUIT FOR INJUNCTION.
Ulysses Grandjean this morning
filed suit for injunction against
Henry, Peter and Theodore Grand
jean and John p. Campbell, sheriff,
in the Forty-fifth District court.
The petition alleges that the sheriff
has levied upon q lot with i'm
provements thereon, known as the
Odet house, on Camaron street, an
other lot, at the corner of West
Houston and East streets, and four
lots on Guadalupe and Frio streets.
Plaintiff alleges that these lots are
worth $4,000, and that a suit for
partition OF the Grandjean COM
munity estate Is pending in this
court. A writ was granted, as
prayed for, and plaintiffs bond
fixed at $500.
l HE'S CRAZY.
J. II. Fleming was tried on a
charge Of lunacy in the Probate
court yesterday afternoon and was
found guilty. His craze was to
pump up enough water to cool of
the earth and drown all the evil
spirits.
REAL ESTATE.
Lie. Grothaus to Frederick Hard.
man and wife, lot on the west side
OF South Alamo street; $40 and
other considerations.
Rosa R. and Frederick Hartman
to L. c. Grothaus, lot on South Ala
mo street; $40 and other considers-
tions.
Mrs. Amanda J. Dignowity to
Charles E. Thompson, lot l6, block
A, on Hayes street; $500.
LICENSED TO WED.
The county clerk has issued mar
riage licenses as follows;
J. w. Dsugherty and Rosa
Sharer.
Francisco Onoya and Victoria
Sanchez.
COURT NOTES.
Mrs. Caroline Kampmann has
filed another suit against VIM.
Davis ct al, for $4,000 and to fore
close on thirty acres out of block
10, on Paso Hondo and Dawson
| streets.
Francisco Anoya, a trombone
player of Beck's band, and Victoria
Sanchez were united in the holy
bonds of wedlook at the brides
home on Pecos street last night,
Justice Devine officiating.
A motion to distribute funds was
granted by Judge Green yesterday
in a case of the Franklin Trust
company, trustees, VS.. the San An
tonic Rapid Transit Street Railway
company, for debt and foreclosure.
All EaaI Wa1I