Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-19
COUNTY COURT.
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TContinued from last week.
The plaintiffs then resumed with
f.. W. Barron, who told about finding
among Mr.. Nelson's valuable papers
the memorandum book in which the
$4,000 appears charged in various items
to Mr.. Davis.
Amory Dawson of Craftsbury iden-
titled the books Of the Barton NATL
Bank which were used to show that
Mr.. Nelson had assisted Mr.. Davis in
addition to the loan Of $4,000 by
indorsing his paper at the bank for
from three to four thousand dollars
until the spring Of 1895, when he de-
clined to do so any longer.
Geo. Reed, Mrs. Dow and Mr.. Bias
dell testified to being present when
Mr.. Blasdeu testified further to a
conversation with Mr.. Davis soon af-
ter the latter's return from the west
in which Davis told him that Nelson
was to loan him money to stock the
store, ard asked Blasden about how
much ne WOulQ neeO.
J. E. Dwinel1 OF Glover testified to
a conversation with Mr.. Davis at Mr..
Dwinelps house, when Mr.. Davis
came there and showed him number
of letters from Mr.. Nelson which Da-
Wis said gave him the $4,000.
T. W. Drew testified to a conversa-
tion substantially like the last. E. S.
Nelson, q brother Of B. N. r. Nelson,
said that he went into Mr.. Davis
store with his brother at the latter's
request in 1895, when his brother
made a demand upon the defendant,
Davis, for a note for $4,000 to repre-
sent the money he had let him have;
that talk between them was an angry
one, Mr.. Davis refusing to give the
note, saying that Mr.. Nelson had called
him liar; that Mr.. Nelson replied to
this, E'I shouldn't have said that,
George, if I had not been excited, but
if you say that gave you that $4,000,
/ have nothing to take back" that
Mr.. Nelson then said, eff you do not
give the note, you, of course, will not
expect me to indorse your paper any
longer" and that Davis replied eff
you don't, m ortgage viii go upon
these goods inside of fifteen minutes"
G. G. Grow testified to Mr.. Davis
telling him th at he had letters to show
that Mr.. Nelson had given him the
$4,000. ". w. Miles testified to the
same conversation.
Gardner Drew said that in the sum
mer of 1895, he saw Davis on the street
in Barton, and asked him if he were
making a dollar, and Davis replied
that he was trying to pay his debts.
Drew said, "B. NJ. R. Nelson says you
owe him S6OOO,' and that Davis re-
piled, "I do, and I would like to see
him get it.''
John Young, Esq, testified in ex-
planation of the position taken at the
present trial compared with that tax
en- at the former trial, especially the
reason why the memorandum book OF
Mr.. Nelson's had not been produced
before. saying that the ruling Of the
court at the former trial had made it
unnecessary.
D. S. Culver was called as witness
for the plaintiffs, from West Superior,
Wis, and was about to testify to the
fall i'll real estate in that city, and
the general decline of business
chances Immediately following Mr..
Davis return to the east, to meet the
inference that Davis had suffered by
his return TO the east, but all the
plaintiffs claimed on this point was
conceded by the defendant, and the
witness was excused. This closed the
plaintiffs case.
At the opening of defendants case,
counsel read the testimony Of Mrs.
Nelson as given upon the former trial
as tending to contradict her state
ment now that the $4,000 had been
changed to those figures from $1,000.
Z. a. Holtham testified to a CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Nelson in February,
'91, in which Mr.. Nelson told him that
he had offered Mr.. Davis s6OGO if he
would come back to the east, and that