The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-14
GOUIsT NEEOkD.
Superior Court-Civil Slde-Judge Shum'
 NNV.

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 Judge Shumway heard testimony In the superior court yesterday on the ap- plicatl9n of Frederick D, Miller of this city, a contractor at Win'chester's for the recovery of his child from Charlotte Miller Of Waterbury. The couple were divorced in November, 1891. The fatAer allowed the mother to have the child, provided she would agree to supporb it wholly. There was no order made by the court on the subject. The mother took the child and cared for it. Latter on the father married again, and he and his wife reside here, while the di- vorced wife has been living in Water bury With the child. Recently the mother applied to the father to help suppcqt the child, who As "a pretty girl named Charlotte, nine years of age. The father maintained that the mother must stick to her agreement to support the child, and refused to help support it unless the child was given to his care and custody. Then the mother went to the town of Waterbury and applied for aid. This angered MT Miller very much, and he has brought the applica- tion to have 'the child placed entirely in his own custody. He claims that mo child of hSS shall ever be put on the town and claims that his former wife did it to humiliate him. The former wife in return replies that she is a fit person to have the custody of her child, 1 that the chlld is weak and sicllly, and and that if it were taken from her it would be dangerous to the health of the child and that she might die as the result. The mother corltends further that the father abandoned the child when he secured the divorce; that he is an unfit person to have the care of 'the child and that his home is an un- suitable one for the child.
 | The case wals heard at considerable length before Judge Shumway. There is now an app.icationl pending in the | Waterbury probate court to remove the father as guardian of the child, and | also a prosecution against Glim for nom | support. Judge Shumway after hear | ing the evidence gave the custody of the child to the father, Frederick D. | Miller. He stipulated that the mother should be allowed to see the child at least once a month ard that the child | could go to see the mother four times a year, making a visit rlJt over one week each time. He provided that if the father should ill-treat the child he would lose the posse ticn of it.
 MIR. BLATCHLEY'S CLAIM SETTLED AMICABLY.
 | The suit brought last year by Noble | s. Biaitehley of this city against Wil- | liam E. Goodwin and several other rail- road capitalists of Hartford, in the sum of $5,OO0, which was alleged to be due | as a commissicn for buying the Mid d155own Horse railroad for the defend- ar.s the said suit having been brought | through Attorney J. Birney Tuttle of this city, With w. F, Henny of Hart l ford and LuciuIs F. Deming of this city, counsel by the defendants has been settled out of court, the plaintiff hav- | ing accepted a compromise from the defendants.
 TWO OTHER CASES SETTLED. | The case of John Hardinan of Wal l lace street against the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company, for com rcnsation for injuries received on June | 15, 1895, has been settled out of court, | Hardinan claimed that while driving through Grand avenue and when in front of the old Quinnipiac rink build | ing, his wagon was struck by car 32 | and he was thrown out, receiving in- irries which prevented him from work | ing for several days.
 A suit for $1000 was brought in the superior court by Deming & Futile, | and Watrous & Buckland represented | the defendants. The trial of the case would have come off this week, but for | the private settlement on basis agree | able to both parties in interest. Hardi- | nan will receive a sum of money, but declines to state how much.
 | DIVORCE NOT GRANTED. | The divorce suit of John w. Leete Of this city against Adeline Leete of | Binghamton, N Y, was dismissed by order of Judge Shumway yesterday. The
 case was heard by him last Friday af- | ternoon. Desertion was alleged by
 the plaintiff for more than seven years.
 Judge Shumway did not grant the ap-