The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-02
YESTERDAY IN THE COURTS
DECISIONS BY JUDGE T0WNSEND
 IN UNITED STATES COURT.

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 IN UNITED STATES COURT Citizens of Stony Creek Win the Idcense Case-superior Court Cases-Jo oseph I. Bald wins Assignment-ward win Not to Dc Contested-other Court Cases.
 In the United States court yesterday before Judge Townsend was heard the case of Maria H. P. Wright, widow of the late Dexter R. Wright the we'll known New Haven lawyer, against her. son, Arthur B. Wright, now of New York; put formerly of this city. Mrs. Wright seeks to have set aside the recording of deed which Arthur plac- ed on record in 1892.
 Mrs Wright and her husband both executed deed of their property in lSS5 by which their estate was divided into if hs between their children. The deed conveyed to Arthur one-fifth, to Paul, another son, one-fifth, and to Mrs. Elisha Hewitt, daughter, three hfths. The agreement between the
 
 should be kept unexecuted by the hus- band until Mrs. Wright's death, when 1t should be placed on record. MT. Wright died first in 1886 and in 1892 Arthur took the deed and had it re- corded against the wishes of Mrs. Wright. She seeks now to have the record of the deed set aside.
 w. l.. Bennett of this city, and Law yer Fellowes of New York appear as counsel for the defendant and E. P. Arvine and Edmund zacher for the plaintiff
 The sl4it,was formerly insthe superior court of this state, but was subsequent ly transferred to the United States court after the removal of Arthur to New York.
 AN INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT. In the United States circuit court yes- terday Judge Townsend handed down decision in the case of Read, Holli- day & Sons, Limited, of New York, against Paul Schulze- Berge, Victor Koechl and August Morius of Brook lyn, suit brought for alleged infringe ment of a patented dying process.
 Judge Townsend, in his opinion, finds lol tIC SolliPlctllldAl dIlO lStS lSSuSu dIl order permanently restraining defend- ants from further using the process. The court has ordered an accounting also. A very large sum of money is said to be involved in the case.
 Superior Court-Civil Side-Judge Prem
 tice.
 In each of the two appeals from the decisions of the county commissioners, granting licenses to John Dunn and Charles Arienta, to sell liquor at Sto- ny Creek, the decision of the county commissioners was yesterday over- thrown by Judge Prentice and the li- cense is vacated.
 The citizens of Stony Creek by this decision win out in their fight for tenn perance in their section of the town, where the vote was overwhelmingly for no license at the last election.
 Ex- Senator w. J. Clark and Frank E. Smith were the objectors to John Dunn's license at the Bayview Inn, ' and Everett s. Grant and, Timothy Page opposed Arienta's license.
 Both licenses were granted December 27, 1893, after stubborn fight. In the superior court new evidence of sale to minors and of Sunday violations was introduced, in addition to what was put in before the commissioners
 DEMURRER SUSTAINED.
 Judge Prentice yesterday handed down decision sustaining the demur- Ter of the Southern New England Tele- phone company in the case of John J. Bergin, administrator of Timothy De- lany, against the company.
 Timothy Delany was killed last De- cember while in the employ of the tele- phone company as a lineman, he was repairing a line in Meriden. He was engaged in uncoiling a big roll of wire when it slipped and crossed trolley wire of the Meriden Electric Railroad company. The man was killed by the shock and fall which followed
 Bergin brought suit against the elec- tric and telephone companies claiming $5. 900 damages from each. The former defaulted, and the case against it will 20 to a jury on the question of dam- ages.
 The telephone company denlurred to the complaint on the ground that It was insufficient in that it was not clear ly stated that the telephone company had knowledge of the defect in the ap- pliances of the electric company to con- trol the electric current. That demur- Ter was sustained. A new complaint was then brought by the attorney for Ser ein and to this a similar demurrer was pleaded, and this has also been sus- tained. Ex-Congressman Pigott is at torney for Bergin, and James T. Moran for the telephone company.
 A DECISION FOR THE TRAN
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 In the 8, 900 suit of Charles D. War ner of Ansonia against the Derby Transcript, for alleged libel in printing a communication scoring an Ansonla man for alleged persecution of the liq- uor dealers of that place, and Which Warner claims referred to him, Judge Prentice overruled the demurrer set up that the complainant did not suppors the claim that the communication re- ferred to the plaintiff.
 DAMAGES AGAINST THE CITY.
 Benjamin w. Butler, administrators and father of Harry W. Butler, who was thrown out of wagon on Howe street March 30, 1894, because of the defectiye condition of the street, was
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