Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-17
THE COUNTY COURT.
Only One Case Tried This Week.
Several Divorces Observation-Disclosures In
the Thurber rCase---CrOssman Tried on
Criminal Charge.

Several Divorces GrRnted---EvIdence In |
the Thurber Case---Crossman Tried on |
Criminal Charge.
When court adjourned last week the |
cases of w. G. Doolittle VS.. F. M. Waite,
Emma d. Howard VS.. j. Q. Shumway and
the Adriance Platt company vs. the Valley
Grain company stood for trial when court
should meet Monday afternoon. When
court convened Monday it was found that
the two former cases had been settled by
the parties with the aid of counsel and the
last named case was set mo jury" by the
plaintiff owing to the sickness of the son
of Lawyer Batchelder of Woodstock, the
plaintiffs attorney. After disposing of
some minor matters the court took recess
until Tuesday at o A. NJ.
On coming together Tuesday morning
no jury case was ready, but the court
heard and granted the following divorces:
| John NJ, Dorset of Jamaica VS.. Frances
| ], Dorsett, Clarence H. Woodard of Towns
| hend VS.. Florence NJ. Woodland, HeTmon j.
| JOY of Brattleboro VS.. Evangeline l.. Joy,
| Sophie NJ. Marietta OF BIattleboro VS..
| William c. Marietta, for wilfu deserton,
| and Edith A. Hopkins of Grafton vs. John
| Z. Hopkins for ntoerable severity. Mrs.
| Marietta takes her former name of Davis.
The Jury was empaneed and In the af-
ternoon the case of John W. Thrber rs.
| the estate Of Edirdrd Thurber was put on
trial. 1t was an appeal from commission
ers disallowng the claim of the plaintiit
against said estate. The evidence OF the
plaintiff tended to show that in 1850 he be-
gan laborng for the intestate, who was
his father, upon his farm in Guilford, VT,
at SO per month: that he worked there
for about four years and II months, re-
ceiying some pay, from time TO time, TO
Apr /, 1855, when he entered into con-
tract with his father TO carry on the farm
at the halves. That at this time the said
Edward Thurber, the intestate, executed to
the plaintiff an acknowledgment in writ
ing to the effect that he was then owing
the plaintiff $500. That he continued on
said farm in the foregoing relation until
1890, when he left the place and has moi
lived there since. That during the time he
was last there his father gave him Ger
tain wood lot from which he cut wood anC
sold it in the market, principally at Brat
tleboro. That his father failed to conve.
said wood lot to him, and died in 1896
| That not receiving deed of the wood 10
he credited up an account to his fathe
; | such amounts AS he had, from time L
!. time. received for the wood less the cost o
= getting it to market, which left a consider
able sum of money still due him on az
count between them.
!, The evidence of the defendant tended t
y show that the plaintiff married in yea
y or two after he began work for his fathe
brought his wife home to live where tw
u children were born to them, and that h
" services were worth more than the livin
!. of himself and family during the years
" had charged for his work; that previoU
u !, to 1880 he had lived there right along wit
u his father, that there was never any col
tract made between them as to his recei
- ing pay for bis work, but continued aloI
a in the same relation as before working
,e y, he pleased and having his living off Il
~ farm. both while single and after he WI
y married. That during the time he carrie
= on the farm at the halves he took u
y management into his own hands, dispose
:. of farm produce and stock as he chos
A. or made division with his father of h
same. That the proposal relative to d
~ ~ wood lot, if ever made by the intestat
~ was as a gift to the son, and that the wo
II cut by the plaintiff therefrom was with L
n consent of the intestate, was intended as
l" gift, was never charged to the plainti
and he had no right TO credit the intesta
with it in order to keep alive any accou
he might have had against his father.
tn a foundation of such evidence to be init
tn duced, the defendant pleaded the gene
on issue, payment and the statute of limi
he tions. The evidence was closed Thursd
III noon and the arguments of counsel ocC
g- pied the entire afternoon session and
iS part of this forenoon, the judge chargi
Jury and giving them the case about
O'Clock.
lte Fits, Robb and Schwenk for the pla
he tiff, and Waterman q Martin for the
Y fendant.
ng The next case set for trial is crimil
one, it being that of the State of Verne
is VS.. one Crossman, and is an informant
to filed by the states attorney, at the reQu
'th of the respondent, which charges him W
to carnal intercourse with his own daught
Ii girl of about nine years of age.