New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-17
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
IN LOCAL COURTS.


TIL. ,r,a, ., the suit brought by Mary slavak,
Normal College student against the rev. 80
Thomas p. Hughes. rector Of the Church Oh ', ~.
Holy sepulchre for $4,000 damages Tor an assam
alleged to have been committed IN MS s'u"S 80,
church last March. was resumed peioie
DAILY and Jury yesterday. The girls id'"e' W ~
roborated parts of her testimony and the piahtNl
then rested her case For the defence. the FORMER
landlord of the Slavaks testified that he was cieu
in to advise them in the case. and had near 49,
s.avak say that she wanted $1,000 from Dr. Hugnes
bnt ho abandoned the case also swore that ne
had been Obliged to warn them that IL Maryy Ionic
Dr. Hnghess private secretary. testified that on the
day which the assault Is alleged 20 ,o maS Mary
savk in the study quietly SAYING a heT ssok the
the clergyman pr Hughes 1m sory He admitted
under cross-examination that he had onereG BUN ni,
by the sir but said he did SO he was afraid
of the tional press. The de1ehce res,eu w to
Or. Hughes left the stand Counsel VIII SUM "p '''
day.
The cross-examination Of Mrs: C. II. NJ. Rose was
resumed yesterday in the Supreme Court AT the
trial of her suit against her brother. William W.
Durant, to compel him to give an accounting OF the
whole OF the estate Of her father. Dr. Tnomas X
Durant Mrs. Rose says that for reasons OF MS own
her father disposed OF his property before his death
and that he left will She asserts howsver sna o
passed into the hands Of the defendant as aom' N
ony 9f hs from M h ee to
and has accounted for that amount. Joseph II.
med Mrs Rose for two hours but did not succeed
in changing her testimony materially. The nearing
will be continued to-day
Joseph Schuter butcher. has three judgments
against Mrs. George w, Post. who lives in Fifty
sixth-st lie has been unable to collect them Mrs.
Post Is one Of the daughters OF the late John
Brady who left large estate when he died. In
1888. Recently wien she examined In supple,
,nentary proceedings. she said that she needed all
her income to manage her house. as she had to
broihcr-n-aw also. Yesterday application was
made to Justice Dickey, of the Supreme Court:
the Judgments OIL: OF her income. Decision was
reserved.
motion was made before Justice Truax by Cen
eral BENJAMIN F. Tracy counsel for sherin
Tamsen in the Supreme Court yesterday TO tax
the costs Of the Sheriff in an attachment upon the
property OF cxPollce Commissioner John McCIaVe
IN a suit brought against him and his son. WOOD
McClaye by the Garfield National Bank. Sheriff
Hansen claimed for his expenses $l.l3o n. This IN
cluded the premium n policy OF S0'VO taken out
upon the lumber yard of the defendant ut Twenty
frst-st and Eeventh-ave; 1892 for the services Oh
four Keepers who were In charge OF the premises
for eleven days: s. day for the services OF TWO
kcepers and s. day for a stableman. The
Sheriff alleges that the lumber yard owned by the
defendants. OF which he took possession unue! 'le
DESTROYED by fire he considered IL necessary 10
insure II. All the other expenses. the Snerlu a.
leecs were lusfable In affidavit. ex-Commls-
sioner McClave said that II was with great reiug
tance that he objected to the Sheriff $ lees; re
was i'm a situation In which the success OF MS et-
forts TO pay his creditors by preserving the pus
ness I'm which he had been engaged Tor upward OF
thirty years might depend on small sums OF
money which not long ago would not nave pee, ~
material 10 him He therefore constrained ~
ask that the Court would not allow 10 the Shein
moneys beyond the amount strictly que 10 MIN
Mr. McClave said further that one Waterman wa:
always sufficient 10 look after his lumber yard q,
night and that the other charges were exorbitant;
me motion OF the Sheriff was denied. with >o