The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-02
FOR $4,000 DAMAGES.
The Singer Manufacturing Company Files
Its Answer.

It's Answer.
The Singer Manufacturing company
yesterday filed it's answer to the suit
recently brought by Samuel II. Stuart
for $4,000 damages for personal in
Juries sustained by a runaway team.
The answer denies that the company
used for the delivery of goods a horse
known to the defendant as a runaway,
and denies that under the ordinances
of the city ii was the duty of the de-
PENDANT to hitch or fasten the horse re-
ferred to when standing in the streets
or attached to a wagon or in the alb
sence of the driver or person having
the horse in charge. 1t is denied that
the horse ran away or that the wagon
struck Stuart and dislocated his elbow
or fractured his wrist, and denies that
the plaintiff was earning $500 a month
prior TO the injury or that since that
time he has been incapacitated from
earning living.
G. w. Stapletoh, referee in the gar
nishment proceedings against T. r.
Kinds in the case of II. L. Frank
against Joseph Klaffki, filed his report
yesterday. The referee finds that the
defendant Klaffd was on the 18th OF
April indebted to the Rocky Mountain
Bottling works for $14S.50, to Kinds &
Co. $3S3.50 and to T. r. Kinds person.
ally $780, To secure these claims
Klaffki gave bills of sale for lot of
liquors and cigars, the total agreed
value of which was S., 065. There was a
conflict in the testimony as to whether
the goods turned over were in fun sat
isfa ction of the claims mentioned
above, but T. r. Kinds still holds Klaff-
lIi's note for $500, given to secure
Kinds claim in July, 1895.
w. T.. Burgess, assignee of the Dan
Lewis Shoe company, yesterday COM
menced an action against Thomas
Coombs, constable, and Arthur Thorn
as. Adolph Pincus and William II.
Lewis, the latter executor of the Paul
Davis estate. The suit is to recover
possession Of $500 worth of goods which
the constable is alleged to have unlaw-
fully attached on the 9Th of last month.
or for their value in money and for
500 damages.
The following matters are set for
hearing in the two departments of
court to-day:
Department l., 2 p. m.-Estate OF
Michael Brady. settlement of account
and petition for distribution; Grace
Morshead, petition for probate of will;
David Il. Lloyd, petition for reissue of
letters teStamentary; f. and NJ. Bur-
kett, petition for letters of guardian
Ship; John G. Shea, petition for letters
petition for letters of guardianship;
Andrew ]. Davis estate, petition of
Calvin p. Davis and Harriet Wood to
revoke probate of will, and demurrers
and motions to strike amended petit
lions from the files, and petition for
Elizabeth S. Bowdoin to revoke pro-
bate and demurrers to answers of H.
A. Root, j. H. Leyson and J. Z. Davis (;
Elizabeth Morrow VS.. Joseph Weyer-
horst, motion to strike amended COM
plant; First National bank of Butte
VS.. Home Investment & Realty COM
pany ct al, motion to quash summons
A. II. Hedley VS.. Adam Farraday et
al, demurrer of Slosson; Catherine
King VS.. Fred Kramer ct al, motion to
dismiss appeal; Adolph Pincus VS.. l.. j.
Lachman, motion of Trujillo & Sons
to amend complaint in Intervention,
and 10 vacate sale; Kate O'Donnell vs..
! City of Butte, demurrer: Eta Averill
VS.. Thomas NJ. Averill, PLAINTIFF S
| proofs.
Department IL, 10 a. m.-State OF
Montana VS.. Carl L. Meyer, arraign-
ment; Effie Rask VS.. John Rask,
plaintiffs proofs; f. =. Carson VS..
| Butte City Water company. demurrer;
H L. Haupt VS.. City of Butte, motion
to strike; State Savings bank VS. L.
NJ. Trask, motion for leave to inter
vene.