New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-01-16
DISTRICT COURT GRIND.
a Good Many Gases Disposed Of and Sew.
eral Men Sentenced.
The Celebrated Pants Case Affords Con-
siderable Fun.

Court convened early last week and
continued diligently until yesterday.
The grand jury found three indictments
one against Geo. Burgher for horse
stealing, one against Henry Davis for Jail.
breaking and one against John Wurscher
for selling mortgaged property. Both
Knight and Burger pleaded. guilty, but
Wurscher secured bonds and has not vet
appeared in court.
OF the fourteen civil cases nearly all
were either settled or tried. "
In the case of Fred Wichstadt VS. the
Board of Supervisors, it was ordered
that the order of the Board of Supervis-
ors be reversed.
The suit of Stilwell- -Bierce- Smith
Vaile Go. against the Eagle Roller Mill
Co. was tried by jury, steinhauser ap-
pearing for the former and Lind s. Hag-
berg for the latter. A verdict was len
derea in favor o. the defendant-no
cause of action.
Mary A. Weltsch's suit against the
Town of Stark was brought up and a
day spent in examining witnesses for the
plaintiff who alleged injuries as the re-
suit of defective highway. On the
following day, Mr.. Lind for the defend
ant made long argument before the
court in favor of dismissing the case on
the ground that town was not liable
for the negligence of an officer or road
overseer and in this he was sustained by
the court and the case was dismissed. Mr..
Somervllle has stated that he will ap-
peal.
IL the matter of the order of the com
mon council of Sleepy Eye it was decid-
ed that the order appealed from be re-
versed.
The cases of Charles E. Armstrong
against Thomas CHUTE and Moritz Kien-
lin VS.. William Murnan were settled.t the
plaintiff in each case securing Judgment
through the aid of Lind g. HagEerg.
That of Metzen VS.. Metzen was contin-
ued.
Carl Schreyer's case against the Board
of Supervisors of Linden and Cotton
wood was decided in the plaintiffs favor,
Lind and Hagberg appearing for plain
tiff.
Georglus VS.. the Winona and St. Peter
Railroad Company was settled, Lind &
Hagberg securing judgment for $40
and costs for plaintiff.
The case which attracted the most at
tention was that of S. D. Peterson vs.,
the%Western Union Telegraph Co., ask
ing for $4,000 as damages alleged to
have resulted from the transmission over
the company's wires from new Ulm to
St. Paul of the message: "slippery Sam,
your name is pants"
S. L. Pierce appeared for plaintiff and
Attorney Ferguson for defendant. The
following were placed on the jury: A
Held, John johnson, G. Schwarzrock.
Nick Schmitt, Ernst Norman, j ohm Koch
Henry Leonhardt, G. B. Blake, r. P.
johnson and Henry Jenning.
Several witnesses were called for the
plaintiff but were all ruled out as in
competent. The defendant produced
only one witAess to show that A. Blan-
chard sent the message and in this con-
dition the case went to the jury There
was no evidence to show that the plain
tiff had been injured and the Judge in
his charge stated clearly that the only
damages the jury could find would be
such as the evidence showed had result
ed from merely transmit ting and pub
fishing the message to the operator at
st. Paul and no further.
With these instructions the iu1y re-
tired and returned with a verdict of
$4,000 damages. This being in excess
OF the amount asked for in the complaint
they were sent back and returned with a
verdict of $4,000.