Evening journal., 1899-09-11
CHANCERY WORK BEGUN
Judge Spruance Sits in Or
phan's Court.
TaB SEVEN PARTITION oAUoIs

IIdh SbNbh fhhlllluN VA uoLo
MANY CASES WHICH FIGURE ON
THE LIST WILL NOT BE DIS
POSED oF-RoUTINE OF THE
WORK DONE TO-DAY IN BOTH
COURTS.
With Chancellor Nicholson and
Judge spruance on the bench the Sep
tember term Of the Court of Chancery
and Orphans Court was formally open
ed to-day, In addition to seven par
tition cases there are forty cases on
the Chancery list, as follows:
William B. Robinson VS.. James B.
Newlin, Mayor and Council Of Will
mington VS.. J. Edward Addicks, Sarah
B. Conrow VS.. Sarah b. Conrow, * al.
J. A. Cranston VS.. w. H. Hopes, viii
liam II. Lee vs.. Patrick Fahey, Cath
crime Simmons VS.. Samuel Simmons, G.
H. Wilson. VS.. A. ID. Warner G.
II. Wilson VS.. s. NJ. Knox, Hliza Har-
rls VS.. Mayor and Council of Whining
lton, c. w. Edwards VS.. John l.. Allen,
Martha A. Boyd vs. James Morrow
Maggie M. Jamison VS.. J. H. S. Gam
Margaret r. Bringhurst. A. ID. Warner
Maria Newell vs.. the Hartmann and
Fehrenbach Brewing Company, A. L..
Ainscow VS.. G. N. Ainscow, John G.
Hartmann VS.. Security Trust and Safe
Deposit Company, Benjamin f. Carver
VS. John c. f. Carver, John c. Yeat-
man VS.. Edwin II. Gayley, ct al; H..
B. Hanford VS.. Walter S. Wood, Nehe-
miah Burns VS.. AlexandeB Maxwell, j..
H. Gooding VS.. Mayor and Council Of
Wilmington, John n. Pennington and
Mary E. Pennington VS.. John e. Lewis,
lW. H. Horn, one Of the executors Of
Morris Wilson VS.. Mary Wilson, Sam
uel Kershaw VS.. Martin Lane. Edwin
P Williamson and Nicholas SPELLS vs..
1.-THE Gordon Heights Railway Company
John B. Richie VS.. c. II. Congdon,
James I. Bonner VS.. Allen Smith, Jack
son and Sharp Company VS.. New York
Equipment Company, Hannah NJ. Chad
wick VS.. Elmer E. Kirk, Eliza J. New
kirk VS.. Arthur Coleman, Fillmore G.
Chandler VS. Margaret A. Tull, w. G
Whiteley VS.. Kent Iron and Hardware
Company, Wiegand Kunz VS.. Charles
c. Kurtz. Torbert Medicine Compan,
VS.. John Torbert. Michael Megary VS.
John p. Donahoe Edward G. Cook VS.
A. w. Smith, Equitable Guarantee anc
Trust Company VS.. John p. Donahoe
E. G.. Cook VS.. Austin Harrington, Sc
curity Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany VS.. Evelyn F. Derickson, Minnie
Harris VS.. Albert Buehler
Scarcely 1.-THE OF these will be dis
posed of, although many Of them have
figured on the list from term to tern
for years.
When the trial list was gone ovei
nearly all the cases were continued.
John II. Rodney was appointed ex
i aminer in the place Of General Samue
A. Macallister in the two cases Of Ger
r trude H. Wilson VS.. Alfred d. Warne
Q and Samuel NJ. Knox, the generals alb
Il seuce from the country in the consula
u service making it impossible for him Il
y act.
An issue will be framed in the case o
> Maggie NJ. Jamison VS.. James II. S
II Gam, and the matter determined by
= Jury in the Superior Court
H. H. Ward will ask for decree pr
II confesso in the case Of William G
d WHITLEY VS.. the Kent Iron and Hard
ware Company.
It is probable that the case of Mich
ael Megary VS.. John P. Donahoe vii
, be settled.
Attorneys for the respondent wi
- make a motion to dismiss the bill j
the Adams tax law injunction case
the Equitable Guarantee and Trui
Company VS.. Collector John P. Dona
= hoe, on the ground that the court ha
no jurisdiction. It was announced ths
= on the first Wednesday in October
motion for a rule for security for cosi
against the complainant will be mad
- lin the case of Edward C. Cook, admh
listrator, VS.. Albert Smith.
A recess was taken until 2.3O o'cloc
Judge Spruance confirmed the sale
: the real estate of John H. Wiggle
~ worth and James T. Taylor an
- Thomas S. Anderson was granted a
order TO sell the real estate of JOSH
]. Davis. That constituted the dehni
morning work of the Orphans Court