The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
CHANGE is WANTED.
Lawyers Would Like
the Congestion
Relieved.
MANY CASES HANG ON A YEAR.
The Docket for Session
Contains About 10
Divorce Cases.
MANY CASES HANG ON A YEAR.

Some Worcester lawyers are talking
about the desirability Of having a long
er jury-waived term, or else have more
judges assigned to the jury waived
cases. They say that the jury term was
designed to relieve the congested state
of the docket that had existed before
1t was instituted. But instead of help
ing to clear away the mass of cases.
still more have accumulated and mat
tiers are as lad as before.
One lawyer said that he had been
trying to get his case set for a hear
ing for nearly a year, and his clients
seemed to think that it was his fault
The remedy suggested is to have a bill
passed by the legislature making pro-
vision for more judges, or else to have
the jury waived term heightened. There
10 a great difference Of opiEion about
this question, however, and some have
suggested that the trouble lay with the
lawyers who were dilatory in getting
to trial with their cases. At the clerk
of courts office, it was said that one
reason for the long docket to be called
next week is that from June until the
present time there has been no oppor-
tunity to hear the divorce cases, and
so they have been accommodating for
several months.
Often the whole docket will only con-
tain a few cases that are ready for
trial, and then in many instances the
cases are only called or set down for
hearing on demurrer, a motion to be
made by counsel that will take only a
few minutes. And then there are cases
that drag along from month to month,
that neither side seems ready to try,
and thus the docket seems more cum
bersome than it really is.
There are about 10 divorce libels on
the docket, but only small part of
them will be contested, and on the
docket Of the equity and jury waived
cases, there win be a number of cases
that will be continued on motion of
counsel.
COURT ROOM NOT READY.
The new civil court room win not be
ready for use tomorrow, and Judge Ste
VEINS will sit either in the criminal court
room or else in the equity room in the
old court house. Court will be opened
at 10 o'clock, and the docket to be called
tomorrow is: Murdoch ct all VS.. Gin
ton Cooperative bank; Ware National
bank VS.. Hubley ct ais; Copeland ct
ali. VS.. Reliable Underwear Company;
Rice VS.. Reliable Underwear Company;
Bosworth VS.. Platt ct al; Revere Rub
Der Company VS.. Humber Company:
Winn VS.. Merchant ct ais; Fuller VS..
Seaver; Hood vs. American Investors
Company; Thomson VS.. Worcester and
Suburban Street Railway Company;
Brown VS.. Abbott; Carpenter VS..
Wright; Langervin VS.. Larose; McGinn
VS.. Platt ct al; Seattle National bank
VS.. Adams.
HEARING IN CLINTON CASE.
Yesterday Judge Hopkins gave a
hearing in the case of Michael Coyne
VS.. Martin Murphy of Clinton. The
plaintiff brought a bill in equity to re-
strain the defendant from blasting
rocks on land adjacent to the property
Of the plaintiff; damages were also
prayed for in the bill The court gave
no decision in the case and suggested
that it be heard during the jury-waived
term. BY agreement of counsel, the
case will come up Tuesday. A. P. Rugg
appeared for the plaintiff and Thomas
F. Larkin for the defendant.
ELLIOTT VS.. BUCKLEY.
James I. Elliott has brought suit
against John NJ Buckley of Framing
NAM 10 recover on an alleSeQ account
The ad darnnum is $4,000 and the writ is
returnable in the November term of the
superior court in Middlesex county
PROBATE COURT MATTERS.
The will of Simon Petteplace was filed
yesterday. The property is valued at
about $4,000, and there are no public
requests.
The will of Catharine Gleason Of Hol-
den was filed yesterday in the registry
of probate. with no public requests.
The attachment on the dry goods
store of Roukous & Co., on Front street,
has been taken off
The account of Peter Richards, guard
ian of George Lafraneois has been al
lowed.
WIFE'S AFFECTIONS CONE.