The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-01
DIVORCES AND DAMAGE SUITS.
SUPERIOR AND CITY COURTS DE-
VOTE THEIR TINE TO SUCH CASES.

woods Beneh-JudgG FalIIsant Is
Grinding Out Divorces to DIscOn-
tented and Much Abused Wives.
All the News of n Day From the
Courts and Lawyers.
! Judge Norwood of the city court is kept
busy these latter days of the summer term
| with damage suits against railroad and
other corporations, and Judge Falligant
of the superior court is pretty much all
the while engaged with divorce suits.
| There have been enough damage suits in
the city recently on grounds of death
| and personal injury to indicate that an
alarming number of the male population
are falling victims to wrecks on the rail,
and there have been sufficient number of
petitions for divorce in the superior court
lately to establish the belief that the wo-
men are falling victims to cruel husbands.
! With such a voluminous pile of litigation
in both courts. Judge Falligant and Judge
| Norwood have we'll nigh despaired of any
| hope of a vacation this summer and will
| probably spend the rest of the heated term
| on the bench.
Judge Falligant heard another petition
! for a divorce in the superior court yester-
! day, the suit being that of Mrs. Kate Wall
! against her husband, Mr.. Rufus Wall. The
| wife appeared in the court room and told
the story of the wrongs that had been
| done her by the husband. She accused
| him of cruel treatment, stating that he
| had made it utterly impossible for her to
| i've with her husband any longer and she
| found it necessary to leave him and OBJ
| tain employment in order to earn sup
| port.
The jury did not leave the court room,
but rendered first verdict in the case
| in favor of the wife by allowing one of
their number to sign the usual form of
| such a verdict.
There have been more than a half dozen
divorces granted in the superior court
within the past few days and as many
more are to be taken up in the near future.
| Among those suits between husband and
wife to be tried within the next few days
! will be that of Mrs Hattie H. Mullen
against Mr. George Mullen. The wife
is suing for alimony and the court has
appointed Sept. 2 as the day for a hearing
| of the case, calling upon the husband to
| be present and show cause why he should
not be forced to pay alimony.
The record was broken in the city court
| yesterday with the taking of bills of ex-
| ceptions. There were five such bills sign
ed by the court as follows: Rebecca Wells
| against the Brush ELECTRIC 14tSlI ana POW
er Company, suit for damages; the Com
mercial Guano Company against
| the Savannah Florida and West
ern railroad Company, claims; John J..
! Waller, by his next friend, against the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western Railroad
! Company; John w. Cheney against the
| Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad
Compan; Fleming & Edmundson,
against A. II. Lea & Brother,
| First National Bank of Corsicana, claim
| ant. All of these cases will be taken to
the supreme court without delay.
| There have been forty-eight weddings in
| Chatham county during the month of Au-
| gust, which is a greater number than for
a long time before during this month.
| Of this number, only eleven were white
| couples, while thirty-seven were colored.
These figures are shown on the books of
| Mr.. Frank Keilbach, clerk of the court of
ordinary of the county, who issues the Ii
| censes. The number of licenses issued last
year in August was only thirty-one, eight
of which were to whites and twenty-three
| to colored
There was large number of cases dis
| posed of by the superior court yesterday.
| Among them were the following: Morgan
Shadrick, charged with larceny after
trust, found not guilty; Eddie Taylor
charged with burglary, pleaded guilty and
was fined 800, or given the alternative OF
going to the chain-gang for twelve
months; Taylor Maxwell pleaded guilty
| to the charge of DEMONSTRATING, and was
| sentenced to four years in the peniten
tiary; George Moesner pleaded guilty tC
the charge of burglary, and was sent III
for twelve months, or allowed to pay q
fine of 800.
Judge Falligant issued an order yester.
day appointing Mr.. David c. Barrow
solicitor general pro. tenn, and Mr.. Man
ming White stenographer pro. tenn. Mr.
Barrow will act as solicitor general un'
til the return of Mr.. w. w Osborne and
Mr.. White will serve as stenographer un'
til Col. George T. Cam returns to this
city. Both Mr.. Osborne and Mr.. Canr
| are al Sea Grit.
There will be a very few criminal cases
to go over this term until the December
term in the superior court, for the reason
that Judge Falligant has devoted much OF
the entire summer to the trial of criminal
cases. The Jail has been pretty well clear
ed of all prisoners who were awaiting a
trial at the hands of the superior court
those remaining being, for the most part
culprits whose cases are now before the
supreme court, or which have resulted in
a mistrial' already this term.
There was much comment on the pre-
sentiments of the grand jury at the court
house yesterday. Many of the officials
around the various offices expressed them,
selves as believing that the report of the
majority of the Harmon committee or
drainage contained glazing inconsistencies
The first few pages of that report was de-
voted to showing in what unsanitary con-
dition the swamps close to the city are
and the latter pages were devoted to up,
holding the work of drainage at Ruckhal
ter swamp, there being not a single hand
of the county forces now at work on the
drains close to the city. The report of the
grand jury was the talk of the corridors
of the court house.
NO CURE-NO PAY.
That Is the way all druggists sell Groves