Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-12-11

Inc county court TeSulneu OpeIdllOuS
Tuesday forenoon after an informal re-
cess from Thursday last. The grand
Jury had continued in session up TO Sat
urday afternoon, the assistant judges
remaining here to receive anv reports
they might have 10 submit. Friday and
Saturday they brought in % indictments
and Tuesday afternoon they came in for
the last time and brought in three more
indictments, making the unusually large
total of 2G true bills for the term, the
States attorney having also filed one in
formation. The grand jury reported
that the Jail was in good condition, recon-
mended heating it with steam and that
some way should be found of ventilat-
ing the grand jury room. Judge Tyler
then discharged them for the term, with
some commendatOry remarks in regard
to the promptness and efficiency with
which they had transacted the business
brought before them.
The first Jury trial of he term was be-
gun Tuesday afternoon, jury having
| been empaneled before dinner. The
case was the Town of Panton V. Ezra
Whitford. 1t seems that on the 10Th of
March last the defendant, who lives in
Addison, had furnished Johnny Green,
colored horse-breaker well known
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with horse to drive to Cassius Warmers
in Panton. Green had turned up at Mr..
WhitfOrd's two days before and was
quite i'll. Mrs. Whitford and her daugh-
ter were suffering with the grip and it
was suggested to Green that it was in
convenient to keep him longer at their
house and he said he could go to Mr..
Warmers, and although his condition
had become worse, he did go there. After
a week Mr.. Warner notified the town
authorities of Panton and he was al
lowed $2S for taking care of the man for
the following 28 days. This suit was
brought to recover from Whtford that
amount and penal sum for aiding
Green to get from Addison to Pantoa
and become charge upon the latter
town, under the statute to prevent any
one from assisting a poor and INDECENT
person from one town to another with
the intent of throwing him upon it as a
charge. The defense claimed that Green,
who has since died, was possessed OF
enough personal property so that he was
not poor and INDECENT person within
the meaning of the law and that Mr.
Whitford in providing horse for him to
drive to Panton had no intent to throw
him as charge upon that town. The
case took till IL o'clock Wednesday. In
the afternoon the jury came in once fol
further instructions and again at
o'clock reported that they were unable
to agree. but the court sent them out t
try 1t again and said they would come
in any time after tea and take their yer
dict if they should reach one. Wher
they came in again after tea they still
reported their inability to agree and were
discharged from further consideration o.
+ the case.
: The next case was /. w. Hatch V. E
w. Gage. appellant and it was begun al
soon as the jury had gotten the preced
ing one. Hatch is a Lincoln man ant
Gage belongs in Bristol. In 1884 the lat
ter got possession of nine 500 mortgage
notes which had been executed by Mrs
Hatch. who died the next year, the plain
z tiffs brother, S. w. Hatch, being ap
a pointed administrator. Hatch in tn
meanwhile remained on the place unit
. last December, when the estate wa
a settled and he took up the notes, paying
. SlSl627. Now Hatch claims that Gag
r had not endorsed all of the previous pay
ments on the notes and had not give
credit for some produce which he ha,
e had from the farm, claiming to recove
g in all about Sl70. Gage admits an in
debtedness of about S25 for the produc
q and claims that this amount. with 81
It for costs, had been rendered the plaintiff
, The evidence was all concluded Thurs
?. day forenoon and the arguments wer
o begun at once, j. w. Page of Bristol an
n d. j. Foster of Burlington representa-
Il the plaintiff and c. NJ. Wilds of Middle
II bury and w. w. Rider of Bristol appear
ing for the defense. There is no verdiC
as we go to press.
There is one more civil case in which
o jury trial is expected and if that come
i on it is hardly probable that the Grim
n nal cases will be begun this week,
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