Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-03-27
Essex County Court March Term, l 500

Essex County Court March Term, l 500.
County Court convened at Guildhall
on the 18th inst, Hon. James NJ. Tyler
presiding judge, Hons. +. A. Turner and
Henry Lee associate Judges. On the call
OF the docket two civil cases were found
set for jury. One of these, the case of
Turner Falls Lumber Co. VS.. Chas Burns
was after a spirited resistance continued
to the next term of court on terms as to
plaintiff. The other, NJ. II. Davis VS..
Wm. Dwyer was tried by jury. In this
action the plaintiff claimed that he, own
ing hall in the town of Norton, made
an agreement with the defendant by
which defendant undertook to sell fifteen
tickets for plaintiff it plaintiff would get
PENDANT agreed to guarantee the sale of
fifteen tickets for such dance Defendant
admitted that he told plaintiff that if he
had dance on New Year eve he would
assist him what he could and ii there
was not a dance at the Stetson House he
would attend plaintiffs, but that he made
no guarantees, and only talked to plain
tiff in a friendly way, and when he learned
there was to be another dance in town
he notified plaintiffs clerk and advised
him to abandon the idea of having
dance at plaintiffs hall. No one at
tending the plaintiffs dance he brought
this suit. The jury rende rcd a verdict for
the defendant. The case State VS.. Her
bert Vance was also tried by jury. This
was an information filed by the States
Attorney based upon the Blanket Act
and resulted in verdict of guilty. The
respondent was sentenced to two and
half years confinement in the state prison
| In the case OF State VS.. Fred Wing the
respondent plead guilty and sentence was
suspended by order OF the court until next
term. The respondent in the case of
State VS.. o Mara was heard on demurrer
~ wv IN al III 90 ONSl
ruled, the respondent plead guilty and
was fined $50. The case of Stetson VS..
The Grand Trunk Railway, Colby VS..
Bailey, and Perry VS.. Perry were CON
tinued. The case OF Vim. Haley VS.. JOS
eph LaPointe and others, and Charles
| Green Us. Stoddard were entered settled.
In the case OF Gardner VS.. School District
i'll Bio omheld was entered nonsuit with
out costs. State VS.. Fred circuit and
State VS. Charles Silsby were continued.
State VS.. Miles was mol pressed. Ticket
VS.. Conn. River Lumber Co., Eastman
Van Dyke vs. Hayden, Blake & Co. VS..
Sllsby, Conway VS.. Fitzgerald, Bartlett
VS.. Lowelitown Lumber Co. were con-
tnued. Two cases State VS.. Manches
ter were continued. There are left on
the docket twent y-hve cases only, but II
! looks now as though there would be
considerable jury business tor next term,
and ii the cases which are expected to be
tried by Jury are then tried and disposed
of there will be very little left on the
docket. There are but two or three cases
on the chancery docket, and those OF very
little Importance.
The term was an exceedingly pleasant
one, and the business was done thor.
| o,,ull, "a ,,I vet wit hput trict ion nc If a
ways is when Judge Tyler presides, res
pect for whom as judge and man IN
creases with every occasion he has tc
come among us. Our own Judges are
very industrious i'll investigating the
affairs OF tie county which we are very
sorry to say do not discover the best
conditions when being thoroughly inves
tigated But it is very satisfactory tc
feel that when our judges get through the
county will have an exact knowledge o
it's financial affairs.
A very pleasing feature has been added
to the court room by placing therein 1
large number of portraits of judges anc
LAWYERS now dead who were prominent
in court affairs during their lives. The
friends of the late judge Storrs are pre-
paring one of him and when the line shall
have been extended around the walls o
the court house even stranger will gel
very accurate impression of the ESSEX
County bench and bar of the time5 Sha
were. The bench and bar OF the county
has entirely changed within the pas
fifty years. Only two of the bar of fort,
wears ago remain and not one OF tn
earliest days of Poland, Cushman, Bart
lett and that school of men. The time
, have also changed, the manner OF dolni
:, business. The bar, as we suppose 1t doe
, everywhere else, W orks more quietly, na1
= moniously and courteously, its manner
are less crude, less boisterous, but at tn
same time less enthusiastic, passlonat
6 and consequently less interesting to some
! The work now has little in it of diversion
entertainment, personal rivalres an
strife, and we think that litigation is al
tended with much less expense than fol
merly.