Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-12-20
ADDISON COUNTY CouRr.

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ADDISON COUNTY COURT.
.//The case of +. IL. Mcleod V. Martin
calvin. both of Middlebury, an eject
ment case, was on trial when our report
closed last week 1t appeared that some
two years ago CALVIN leased from Me
I.cod the building known rs the Me-
Ieod block i'm this village for one year,
and during The year fitted up the upper
portion of the building "a tenementS,
claiming that he had made "a Subsequent
verbal lease of the premises for ten
wears. The plaintiff claimed that the
building was uuuhabitable by reason Of
the extremely leaky condition of the
roof anl that after repeated efforts to
get Mr.. Mcleod to repair the roof he
had it fixed at considerable expense to
himself, several tenants having in the
meanwhile moved out. some of them
after very short stays, in consequence of
/ the unpleasantuess, TO call 1t nothing
more serious, resulting from trying to
live in building with "A leaky roof.
Under the circumstances Calvin claimed
an offset and refused, for time, TO pay
any more rent. SO Mcleod sued to get
possession of the premises and the back
rent due. The case was concluded Fri
day evening, when the jury brought in a
verdict for Mcleod for S252. The
plaintiff will carry the case to the su-
preme court. The MesSrs. Button were
the plaintiffs attorneys and c. NJ. Wilds
represented the defendant.
Saturday morning the first criminal
trial of the term was begun. 1t was
State V. George and Clayton King of
East Mddlcbury, who were Jointly in
dcted at this term for assaultng Will
liam j.. Iisdale. second constable OF the
town. at East MddleburY. on the night
of October 81 last. Ii>dac "A few nights
before had attached Violn belonging
to one of the brothers on the suit of an
East Middlcbury merchant, but did NOT
remove the instrument at the time. On
the night in question, at the request of
the attaching party. Iisdale went to
take away The violin. and, as ne claimed,
was assaulted and struck several times
by the two brothers. TSdale came to
Middlebury. got Deputy Sheriff Cobb
and the two returned to East Middle
bury aud arrested the Kings, bringing
them to Middlebury and lodging them
in iail here the same light. Tisdae's
face looked in bad shape the next day.
Alta hearing here before Justice Me
leod the Kings were put under 500
bonds each to appear before the grand
Jury, and not being able to obtain bail
have been in the county Jail here ever
since. saturday afternoon the Jury
r. brought IN verdict Of guilty against
each of the respondents. Sentence ha,
not yet been passed. States Attorney
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