The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-14
COURT RECORD.
Superior Court-Jud.e Hall.

As the short calendar list of the su- perior court was a long one yesterday, Judge Hall suggested that the attorneys file briefs instead of arguing their cases and nearly all adopted this sug- gestion.
 In the suit of Huntington vs. the Newport News and Mississippi Val ley company, Judge Hall allowed the claim of R. T. Miller to be referred to the committee, MT. Zacher.
 The New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad company was allowed to take a formal judgment in the suit brought against it by William A. Beers court. The railroad company has won on two demurrers in which the vital is sue in the case was involved and from the action of the superior court in so ruling MT. Beers appeals, The demur- rers raised the point of whether a man who does not buy ticket on railroad but cheeks his baggage on that line can hold the company liable if the bag gage is lost. The superior court has decided that the company is not lia- ble
 In the case of Dana Bartholomew against the Derby Rubber company, the plaintiff was permitted to file an amend ment to the complaint asking that the defendants be restrained from selling
 the property involved pending the de- cision in the case.
 The suit of Harry Wolodarsky against the New Haven Street Railway com pany for dana ges to a team caused by collision was defaulted and will be heard in damages.
 Dr. M A. Cremin was permitted to against Thomas J. Donnelly, as admin istrator of Francis Donnelly's estate. In two cases of Herman Swanson against Thomas H. Pratt, formerly of New Haven, q motion for judgment in favor of the defendant was made, and Judge Hall took the papers. It seems | that Swanson held two judgments l against Pratt, who was one time we'll known in this city, which had been procured against him by H. J. Bardwell of New York The defendant claimed that the judgments were fraudulently ! obtained and filed an injunction to pre- vent their being enforced. Since then the plaintiff has withdrawn his appear
 ance in the cases. The judgments were | for $500 and $1,5O0.
 Superior Court-CiviI Side-,Judee W Wheeler. | Judge Wheeler in the superior court
 yesterday heard nine divorce cases and besides these two more went over.
 Those granted were: Alice H. sherman l from James sherman, both of this city;
 Jennie l.. Talmadge of Durham was | divorced from Clayton J. Durham l of Hartford; Flora A. Dayton of this
 city from Anson A. Dayton of Bristol, on the ground of desertion, her name being changed to Bagley; Henry Stai6 1 from Mary Staid, both of this city, on the ground of assertion; Domenco Fer
 rucci of Cain street, city, from Olympia A. Ferrucci on statutory grounds George Burr, colored, janitor of the
 Derby city hall, from Minnie Burr. on
 statutory grounds, one Jacobs being named as correspondent; Harriet Ib- bolt of New York, from Charles Ibbott now an inmate for the Middletown Asy. lum for the insane on the ground that he had committed an unnatural act John E. Kelsey of Madison, from Ella
 A. Kelsey, OF the peculiar ground ot 1 freudulent contract. She is thirty-nine years old, and left him some time ago They were married in June, 1893.