New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-07-03
MORE COURT FINDINGS.

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Jnriss in Several Gases Return Verdlcts
Assessing Damages.
Court continued in session all of last
week and is still grinding away at legal
diffculties and ticklish law points.
The most important case was that of
Louis schilling against the Winona & St.
Peter Railroad 20. asking for damages
to the amount Of $1O, 900 alleged to have
arisen from injuries received in alighting
from freight car, on which he was a
passenger, at Sleepy Eye about two years
ago. Mr.. Lind appeared for the plain
tih assisted by Mr.. Fckstein, and Brown
and Abbott for the defense. A large
'nunaber of witnesses were introduced on
both sides and the testimony occupied
NEARLY all Of two days. The addresses of
'botk Lind and Brown to the jury were
strong and mastery, showing clearly
that both are finely equipped attorneys
jim all branches of conducting case. The
fudge chared the jury Friday afternoon
and ths. case was wrestled with by them
for an hour. Their verdict was in favor
of the plaintiff, assessing damages at
E$2,055
The case of Margaretha Siemers>
against her husband, Albert Siemers, was
brief but interesting. The plaintiffs
claim was that Mr.. Siemers had prom
ised In writing to give her 81 900 when
she should become his wife, and that he
failed to do so, since which time they have
lived apart. Lind & Hagberg appeared
for the plaintiff and Somerville for the
defense, the jury returning verdict for
the plaintiff and assessing her damages
at ST ,065.33.
The jury in the cases of Wischstadt
and Krueger against the town of Prairie
vile were ouhse"eral hours and finally
returned verdict in favor of the plain
tlfs' but authorizing the laying out of
the proposed road. The damages in
Wlschstadt's case were fixed at $4O0 and
in that of Krueger at $40. John Lind
and Geo. Somerville conducted the case
for the plaintiffs and Davis and Young
Etor the supervisors Of the town.
What developed to be the most inter-
testing case on the calendar was that of
Vim. .Cumby, assignee of Weitznez, Gruen-
berg of Co. of Minneapolis, VS.. Samuel
Zuckermann and others, who had been
running store at Springfield. The plain
till was represented by a good array of
attorneys, including Geo. F. Edwards of
Minneapolis, P. j. Mclaughlin of Minne-
apol1s and John Lind of New Ulm. Free
man P. Lane stood single-handed for the
defense. The plaintiffs allege that when
Weltzner, Gutenberg and Co. failed as
proprietors of the Big Boston Store in
Minneapolis, they left immense liabilities
and absolutely no assets; that they had
been secretly sending their stock to small
stores in the country towns, and that the
stock in the possession of Zuckermann
at Springfield was really the stock Of
Weitzner. Gutenberg & Co. and there
fore the, property of the assignee, Mr..
Culuby. Several witnesses were intro
duced and the court carried through such
a labyrinth of Hebrew relationship and
limited fraud that it would be impossible
to understand it If heard from the stand.
The lawyers persistently contested the
case from Friday until Tuesday. and
the cross examination to which the wit
nesses were subjected by Mr.. Lane was
unusually severe.
The stock at Springfield was repIevin-
ed in April by the assignee, who repre-
sents the Powers Dry Goods Co., Wyman
Partridge and Co. and other jobbing
houses. They inyoiced the stock at
$4,000, and claimed to be able to identi-
fy portions of it as having originally
been in the store of Weitzner, Gutenberg
& Co.. '
Freeman Lane summed up for the de-
fense and Mr.. Lind for the plaintiff. At
this writing the case is being discussed
by the jury. ~
Jos. Wilfarth Suicides. y y
Monday night Joseph Wilfarth Of ST.
gel, aged 60 or 65 years, committed sui
eide by shooting himself. Wilfarth was
lin town Monday afternoon and was pres
Ient in the court room along towards sup
per time. In the evening he walked