The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-11

bathing privileges in front Of the Cox
hotel, was heard by Judge Shumway
and jury. The jury rendered a YER
dict for the plaintiff.
SUPERIOR COURT JURY LIST.
| The jurymen who are in attendance
| in the superior court are as follows:
David A. Lounsbury and Walter Doc
| little of Bethany, Henry e. Bradley and
Daniel O'Brien of Branford, David Doc
| little Charles M. Hotchkiss and War
| rem j. Andrews of Cheshire, John Peter
son. e. Shepard Gordy and Patrick Cor
man of Derby, Henry r. Palmer of East
| Haven, George II. Chittenden, Paschall
! X. Hoadley and John w. Grosvenor OF
Guilford and Charles Malie, Harmon w.
Wakefield and Jerome C. Munson OF
Hamden.
SENT TO JAIL FOR EIGHT MONTHS
In the superior court yesterday morn
ing Jacob Bernstein and Michael Doroff,
| the bootblacks who kept pocketbook
belonging to Edgar H. Stiles in the de-
pot, pleaded guilty to theft Upon their
pleading guilty they were given eight
months in jail.
HANCOCK LIFE SUED
has brought another suit against the
John Hancock Life Insurance company
to recover $500, the amount of policy
held on the life of her daughter, Miss
Julia l.. Sugrue. The latter died in Oc-
tober, 1897 The insurance company
held two risks on the daughter. After
Miss Sugrue's death the Hancock COM
pany declined to pay the policy upon
the ground that the health of the girl
had been misrepresented to them at the
time that the-policy was issued. COM
promise was effected as to the first pol
icy. Mrs. Sugrue now seeks to recover
the amount of insurance on the second
policy.
MAYO FILES AN ANSWER.
The answer of Commodore w. Is.
Mayo to the suit of his wife for divorce,
which answer sets up a Dakota decree
in favor of Commodore Mayo. was yes
terday admitted by Judge Shumway
with the consent of counsel on both
sides. The case will be transferred, by
consent of both parties also, to the Wa
terbury session of the superior court,
next month. Mrs. Mayo is now living
in Waterbury.
Judge Hotchkiss, who appears for
Commodore Mayo, will claim that by
admitting the answer setting up the
Dakota decree it will work as plea
In bar to further consideration of Mrs.
Mayo's petition.
HOWE-LANSING CASE.
Proceedings in the Howe-Lansing
case yesterday consisted of testimony
Of the plaintiff in rebuttal to contradic-
tions made by Mr.. Howe. Arguments
will probably be begun this afternoon.
GOES TO THE JURY.
The hearing in the case of the Mark
Sherick Fur company of New York
against Mrs. Marie E. Sears of this city
and formerly of Newton, Mass, for the
recovery of the value of a seal coat, was
resumed in the civil side of the city
court yesterday morning before jury.
All the evidence was heard and the ar
guments We're made yesterday after
noon The judge also charged the jury
and the case will go to the jury this
morning at 10 o'clock.
THE CASE POSTPONED.
The case of McCusker & Schroeder
against Spier & Co., which was to have
been heard before Judge Shumway and
a jury in the superior court to-day, was
yesterday postponed
LUFT'S LIABILITIES.
The assets and liabilities of Christian
Luft, who went into insolvency Mon
day, are as follows: Liabilities, 200;
assets, $500. The cause of the failure
was the fact that Mr.. Luft assumed
considerable liability in taking charge
of the business and he was unable TO
make it go.
JUDGMENT FOR S304.9S.
Judge Bishop, in the city court, civil
side, yesterday, awarded damages Of
$304.9S to Cunningham Brothers, provi-
sion dealers, who sued Walter Swayne,
the garbage contractor, for that