The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-01-22

N ,ss ofdeiendant company. The evidence
| submitted went to show that the plaint-
ifrs had been directed to have the horses
in a car ready for shipment ut certain
hour i'm the day. The ear was harled to
lockwood, where it WAS permitted to
stand on side-track by reason of the
alb sndoning of train scheduled to pass
that point At $50 o'clock i'm the evening.
Next morning the ear was removed to
Cumberland, and after short delay
there, 10 Brunswick where i: WAS again
side-traeked for long period. The car
was also delayed Unnecessarily in the city
of Baltimore aud WAS finally delivered To
a connecting line at Wilmington. Del,
too late to- be hauled 10 its destination ON
the day of its arrival. Altogether the
horses were en- route sixty-one hours,
whereas they should have been delivered
at their destination i'm 80 hours, according
TO proofs of frequent former hauls of the
defendant company. 1t was zero weather
all the time the horses were in the car
and when they arrived at Chadd's Ford,
Chester county, the owners had to en-
ploy a veterinary surgeon to treat
number of them. All of the animals had
been affected by the long exposure they
were subjected to and the owners suf-
f6red great loss in disposing of them.
The Railroad company refused all over
lures in the way of compromise and the
verdict Of the jury was for $50 damages,
in favor of plaintiffs.
Counsellor James L. Pugh asked the
Court at one of last weeks sessions To
issue mandamus compelling the County
Commissioners to issue a warrant to the
County Treasurer for the full amount of
the State personal property tax. The
Court awarded the mandamus. Monday
the County Commissioners employed
A. c. Holbert and sent him to Bedford
for the purpose of presenting petition
TO Judge Longenecker praying him to
rescind his order, which a telegram
from Bedford to the County Treasurer,
received last night says was overruled.
Treasurer Pugh says that unless a war
rant is issued to-day he will ask for an
attachment To bring the commissioners
before the Court for contempt. The point
involved was an attempt on the part of
the Commissioners to deprive the Treas
urer from receiving his commission on
the State tax, heretofore allowed with
out being questioned.
When court convened at l:30 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon two jurors who were
sitting in the case on trial at the time fail
ed To appear for at least fifteen minutes
after the Court Crier had convened the
session. As soon as the jurors had re-
sumed their seats in the jury box, Judge
Greer called upon them to explain
their reasons for absenting themselves.
The jurors said that they had been unable
To procure their midday meal earlier,
whereupOn his Honor advised them To
change their boarding house, remarking
at the same time that the court cost the
county $50 dollars per hour for every
hour il is in session and that the jurors
who had abSented themselves from at
tendance upon the court for fifteen min
utes had cost the county $50.
A prominent resident of Meyersdale
was heard remark on the street last even
ing that if the affairs Of the county are
conducted during the current year in the
same manner that they have been for
several years past it will be necessary for
the County Commissioners TO levy spe-
cial tax i'm order TO defray the expense of