The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
YESTERDAY IN THE COURTS
4. ". BURRITT co. SUED FOR SeJ, ,OO0
 DAMAGES IN U. s. COURT.

4. ". BURRITT co. SUED FOR 900
 D1MAGESIN U. s. COURT. Decisions Handed Down by Chief Justice
 Andrews of the Supreme Court-Michael
 Leukman on Trial in City Court, Charged
 With Having Caused the Death of His
 Wife-Nine Italian Thieves In Court.
 In the United States court yesterday the case of Henry H, Johnson of New ark, N. J., against the A. w. Burritt company of Bridgeport was heard by Judge Townsend. Johnson, who is carpenter, worked for the Burritt com pany, in 1895 on new church in New York. While employed he fell from what he claims to have been a defective staging. The injuries he sustained laid him up one and a half years in a hos pital He has never fully recovered. He claims $25, 5000 damages.
 The Burritt company have defaulted the case, and the hearing before Judge Townsend was on a question of the amount of damages.
 SUPREME COURT CASES.
 Chief Justice Andrews of the su- preme court yesterday handed down the courts decision in the case of Budd against the Meriden Electric Railroad company. The decision finds no error in the decision of the superior court, The case is an interesting one to Meri- den people.
 On August 20, 1895, Migee E. Budd, twenty-one months old, and daughter of Daniel Budd, was run over and killed by trolley car on a crossing on Pratt street, Meriden. Budd brought suit to recover $5,000 damages, and the court allowed $1,400 with costs. The railroad appealed, but the supreme court sustains the lower courts finding.
 Another decision was handed down in the case of Stanley Botsford against Frank A. Wallace, both of Wallingford. In 1883 the plaintiff bought a piece of property from Louis A. Young, and subsequently, Wallace bought another piece in front. He refused a right of way to Botsford, and suit was brought. In the superior court Judge Shumway found no right of way, and the supe- rior court sustains him.
 Court of Common Pleas Criminal Side Judge Hubbard. Judge Hubbard of the common pleas court and the jury in the case of Thomas J. Coffey. charged with viola ton of the liquor law, went yesterday afternoon to Coffey's saloon on State street to inspect the place and see if the officers could see the saloon from the Cedar Hill station as they had tes- tified in court.
 Judge Blydenburgh, who represented Coffey yesterday morning, demurred to the reputation clause in the complaint against Coffey on the ground that it could not be alleged against a licensed dealer. The demurrer was sustained. The clause has been used many times in prosecutions of licensed liquor dealers in the court.
 The case will probably go to the jury this morning.
 ARRESTED ON A CAPIAS AND FINED
 Judge Hubbard disposed of the case of Martin McDermott, arrested on a capias Tuesday afternoon, McDermott gave information to the police that a bartender at McAllin's saloon, 5T5 East street, was doing Sunday business and the bartender's, Ryan, arrest fol- lowed In the city court McDermott denied all knowledge of 1t and then fled. Ryan was fined $50, and appealed. When his case came up In the common pleas court he pleaded guilty, but Me | Dermott could not be found. A capas was issued. and Deputy Sheriff Dejon found him Tuesday In court McDermott said that Ryan taught him the story he told in the city court and that Mrs. McAllin gave him | two dollars for his time. After that two men advised him to skip, and he went to Norwich. McDermott was | fined $5 and costs.