The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-28
IN THE COURTS YESTERDAY
HOADLEY VIII CASE READY FOR
THE ARGUMENTS.

Barnes Manufacturing Company in the
Hands of Observation-Disclosures on
Charles r. Mallory's Property Reduced
Probate News-Other Court Notes.
DR.. w. H. Carmalt was put on the
stand yesterday in the Hoadley will
case and testified that DR.. Hoadley was
house surgeon at the New Haven hos
pital in 1877, and that there was no
better one before or since. DR.. Hoad-
ley was constant visitor at his house,
and he never saw him under the inf1u-
ence of narcotics. He was always
bright, intelligent, we'll and carefully
dressed, courteous and gentlemanly. He
saw the doctor in Bloomingdale asylum
when he was taken there from the New
Haven house, and even then he con-
sidered him mentally bright and sound.
DR.. Carmalt then made statement in
regard to the effect of morphine upon
an habitue.
This closes the expert testimony and
the case is adjourned until next Tues
day, when the arguments will probably
begin.
DIVORCE ASKED FOR.
Annie REESE Hargar yesterday,
through her attorney, Louis e. Jacobs,
brought suit for divorce from her hus-
band, Benjamin Hargar, who IS now at
the Middletown insane asylum she
alleges habitual intemperance, cruelty
and insanity. She asks for the custody
of her children and that her name be
changed.
IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER.
Prior to the opening of court yester-
/ day Attorney c. S. Morehouse OF the
firm of Alling, Morehouse and Webb,
VI applied to Judge Prentice for receiver
4 for the Barnes Manufacturing COM
pany. Judge Prentice appointed Ed
ward Swift receiver. The assets of the
! concern are about $4,000 and the la
\. bilities are approximately $4,000. There
is a mortgage of $4,000 on the tools and
plant which is now under foreclosure
in the superior court
AS there are several orders with the
I company which have not been filled Re-
\ ceiver Swift was authorized to proceed
4 with the business until further order
from the court AS soon as the con-
\ tracts are filled the company will aban-
4 don the business and it's affairs will be
II wound up.
Frederick G.. Cannon, Edgar e. Dur
\ ant were appointed appraisers. The
" company is a corporation with CAPT
4 tai stock of $4,000 and manufactures
4 locks and small hardware at 424 State
N street. The officers are: President,
Il Charles S. Hamilton; secretary and
n treasurer A c.. Barnes, and super1n-
"A tendent, j. H. Woolaston.
" MALLORY'S ATTACHMENT RE
DUCED.
a Judge Prentice issued an order yester-
n day citing Sadie T. Mallory and her at
II torney, r. H. Tyner, into court to show
u cause why the attachment for $4,000
III placed upon Charles T. Mallory's prop
AZ erty should not be reduced.
MI Mr.. Tyner agreed to the reduction of
Nj the bond to $4,000, and all the attach
HI ments on the property of the defendant
III were released excepting one on fifty
Nj shares of railroad stock. Heretofore an
Nj attachment on the oyster grounds of
III Mr.. Mallory have prevented him from
using them for security in this case.
III j. P. Goodhart, attorney for Mr.. NAL
n lory, says the divorce suit will be con-
tested and that he may file cross
n bill
N DOUGHERTY'S CASE SETTLED.
M A jury was summoned into the COM
mon pleas court yesterday to hear the
suit of Peter Dougherty and his wife
against the town of Guilford. But the
case has been amicably settled out of
court and the jury were excused until
/ next Tuesday
| Dougherty brought two suits against
I the town for $1,000 each because Of the
fact that he and his wife drove into an
excavation in the highway in the town
of Guilford on December IL. Both were
injured and the horse and buggy were
damaged.
The town offered him $500 for the en-
tire injury and he accepted 1T and with
drew the suits.
H. w. Asher appeared for the plain
tiff and Henry G. Newton for the de-
PENDANT.