The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-15
SUPERIOR
COURT.
Plaintiff in the Thomas VS.
Grise Case Closes.
Special JuryDrawn.

The case of Thomas VS. Grise was begun
in Superior Court yesterday afternoon and
whom the session concluded the plain III
had closed his case. Annie NJ. Osborn was
the first witness. She testified regarding
a certain contract made. j. Miller Thomas
the next witness, testified to selling the
paper and identified tho agreement setting
forth the terms Of the sale. Included In the
sale was the circulation and the advertis-
Ing contracts Of tho paper. Under cross
examination the witness said he was not
in Harrington during Septsmbor or Octo-
Der. He denied that tho definite terms of
I'll @ sale were made in Harrington.
He WAS asked If he did not on tho occa-
sion Of the Harrington meeting say the
circulation Of The paper WIS 2, 600 and show
tn, proof sheets of tho mailing list. Mr..
Cooper objected, and the court sustained
the objection. lie turned over the prop
erty spoken of In the contract. Since then
Mr. Griso has offered TO return the prof.
erty. The plaintiff here rested.
Mr.. Richards made motion for non
suit ON the ground tina, the protest OF the
check had not been proved. Tho motion
was denied. Mr.. Richards in opening said
the defendant sold the paper by false and
fraudulent Misrepresentation. The rep
rescntation was that tbs paper had $3.50
subsc ibers 1t had less than 80. About
SEQ OF them were dead.hsads.
The Rev w. i. Corkran was the first
witness for the defence The first meeting
he said, 10 consuInmate the sale was held
in Harrington. The terms of tho purchase
were then agreed upon. Thomas was to
turn over ut least $3.50 subscribers, the
c!ar.rr OF the paper, and the certificates
Of stock. In return he was to get ~ so.
The meeting was held on or about Ootober
2l. On cross examination tho witness said
he furnished 500 Thomas told thlm sev
cal times tho circulation was $500 and
showed them bills for paper used in prlnt-
ing the public alton. He did not believe
everything Thomas said.
;. Wlckline corroborated the preceG-
lag witness. He said he rut $500 into tie
pll r. III, Rev. j. d. G. Hrnna was not
at the l1arrln9 ton meeting. but he met at
the office of the paper in this city. His I'M
Outstanding was that the circulation was
not to be less than 1900. The Row. W. W.
Sharp of Wesley NJ. e. Church was pres
cnt az the meeting, but did not know any
thjng,Hbout the terms except about the
circulation.
During the day special jury was drawn
to tri The case of Lewis Wilcox, admins
tr t II Of Johanna Wilcox VS.. The VIII.
mington CITY Railway Company. Tho
action Is TO recover damages for the death
VI MIS " liCOA WIN WAS SlfuCk ny Il car ~
Twcnty-sccOnd and Market streets. The
jurors are:
Charles +. Thomas joseph Davidson,
George W. Cry Abraham Ar.nor, Joel
Clcui, Joseph Der ickson William \
Morrison, William +. Griffith, Joseph II.
Caleb, Patrick McGorry, James ". Den.
ming, James NJ. Downs, Harry ELLISON, Ed
win :, Armstrong, W. D. Mullen, Car
ence d Poole, Isaac j. Woods, Frank B.
Watkins, Merrick n. Willcts, Richard l.
Naudain, Edward Graves, John W. Denny.
Robert N. Higgins, George W. MotLford.