The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-05-28
Monmouth County Courts
BEFORE JUDGE J. c. eoNovER.


Lawley security in $500, in each case;
trial June 10Th.
Quirk e. Quirk VS.. The Eiberon
hotel Company was not concluded
until Thursday noon, when the jury
after being out. one hour, found
verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for
$517 10, interest, $24 %, total $541. 32:
The Jurors were then excused until
May 25th.
Common Pleas 0 of Thomas p.
Brown VS. Edward A. Bowman, down
for trial to-day was postponed until
June Both.
Solomon Weinstein plead not
guilty to receiving stolen goods. yizs
five rugs, Oct. 25th, in Wall town1
ship, the property of S. o. Garrison@
VIM. S. jackson and Samuel IL
Gillian security in 5000; trial june
18th.
James O'Brien plead non vult to
the sale of whiskey in Neptune town s
ship Apr. 9th; Jacob Lewis security
in $500; sentence June 18th.
Common Pleas 8, of VIM. b. Willis
VS. G. b. Collins was tried before the
Court and a jury. This suit was
brought by Willis, the plaintiff, to-
recover SIS, 900 for damages sustained.
by him, by being charged with e.
theft. The circumstances of the:
case are as follows. viz: About five.
years ago a Dutchman boarded one.
of the boats that sailed between New
York and Atlantic Highlands and he
had in his possession an old pair or
wagon wheels and iron axle, that he
was unable to pay the freight upon
them and G. B. Collins, the Engineer
bought them of him, that when the
boat landed they were put out upon
the dock, and in about a month
afterwards, Capt. Benz. Gria gs. sold
them to a junk dealer for fifty cents,
and the junk. dealer sold them to-
Willis, for one dollar, that the plain
tiff had them nearly three years.
when on March s, 1895, he was ac-
cused by Mr.. Collins of the larc enys
of the wheels and arrested upon a.
warrant issued by Justice of the
Peace Martin Bissell, of Matawan !.
This is the second trial of the above
case and the jury this time rendered
a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
$e5. Ex-Judge Walling for plaintiff,
Edmund Wilson for defendant
Supreme Court 6, of Edwin Stone,
VS. rhe Sea Shore r. R. Co., was put
off for the term on account of the
illness of one of the counsel. s..
KaIisch for plaintiff and / G.. KEN
nedy for defendants.
Common Pleas 7, of John HI. Van
Schoick VS. Sickles & Clay, was an-s
nounced to have been settled. A. e.
Johnston for plaintiff and Edmund
Wilson for defendants.
appeal 100, of Michael j. Dorsey,
VS. Hilda Anderson, was tried before
the Court. This action was brought
by the appellee to recover for services
rendered by her for the appellant at
his boarding house at Monmouth
Beach. Miss Anderson claimed that
she went to work for Dorsey for $S
per month and that at the expiration
of the first month she was going to
leave and that he told her he would
give her $40 if she would stay with
him and she stayed two months lon
ger and then left and brought suit
and recovered judgment for $28 when
1924 was paid and this trial is to de-
termine whether she is to receive the
sum of $4 or not. Thomas P. Nc
Kenna, for plaintiff and Thomas ?.
Fay for defendant.
Arthur Garner, colored, plead not
guilty to an assault and battery on
Annie Daniels, March 18th, at Long
Branch His bail was fixed at 5000;
remanded. Trial June 18th.
Monday, May 25th.-The Court di-
rected the Clerk to give notice to all
the jurors who had been excused un-
til sent for, to be present on Monday,
June 1st, so that there would be at
least three panels to try indictments,
which commence upon that date.
Circnit Court 16, of Benjamin Griggs
ct ais VS. Daniel Fl. Applegate, was
postponed until June 18th. as was
also Common Pleas ID, of Hamilton
B. Newkirk VS. John P. Drummond,
J. E. Foster and F. P. McDermott
are opposing in first case and Haw-
kins Il Durand and S. A. Patterson
in the latter.
Common Pleas IA, of Vreeland &
Vancleaf VS. The Asbury Park and
Belmar Street Railway Company,
was put off for the term.
The Supreme Court case 2, of John
E. Allen, surviving executor OF
Edward Allen VS. Catherine Z.
Hendrickson ct ais, was tried before
the Court and jury. John f. Haw.
kins represented the plaintiff and
A. E. Johnston and E. w. Arrow
smith Sr. represented the defendants.
Ephraim P. Emson was sworn on be
half of the plaintiff. and John 4.
Allen, Reuben G.. Strahan, james
Nelson, Charles G. Coward, Lucy
Thompson and Edward Heyers was
sworn on behalf of the defendants.
The following were the jury, viz
Thomas Ryan Jr., James j. Barkalow,
Matthew Brown, Lewis M. Price,
Charles E. Barkalow, Michael Des-
preaux, David H. Bray, Charles
Quackenbusb, William r. Slocum,
John V. Hendricks, Thomas P.
Hayward and Joseph Rue. This was
an action brought by the plaintiff
against the defendants as heirs at
law of Elizabeth Heyers, to recover a
balance due upon a note given in
1891 by Mrs Heyers to Chas. Allen, in
his lifetime, for 81, TAO. :. 1t seems in
this case that Mr.. Allen was executor
of Edward Aliens estate of which
Mrs. Heyers was an heir. that he had
paid money to Mrs. Heyers husband
and had never received any receipt
from her and that she gave the note
above for the purpose of and as a
receipt, so that she could not bring
suit to recover her share of the es-
tate. The jury after being charged
by the Court retired to their room,