Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-11-30
LEGAL NEWS.
TRIAL LIST.

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tion attachment 10 satisfy q judgment
on which credits by the loss of dia
mond ring by the plf.cand by payments
were claimed vent to trial Friday anC
verdict was given for the plf. fol
S2G.3 by direction of the Court.
The assumpsit suit Of Kelly VS. Keasy
was settled.
In the assumpsit suit of Setter Bros
VS. Chas. and Ralph Gregg, verdict
was given for the defts, by direction OF
the Court. The plfs. moved for a new
trial
The ejectment suit of Harry Lefeyer
VS. J. L. Armstrong and John :. Camp
bell went to trial last Thursday and
after all the testimony was heard, jury
trial was waived and the case submitted
to Court for decree.
In the ejectment suit of Martin
Thompson vs Chas. Elsenrath for land
in Clinton twp, verdict was given for
the deft and new trial was then asked
for by the plf
The assumpsit suit of Jas. NJ. Elliott
of Parker VS. G. F. and Elmer E. Price,
the Renfrew machinists, resulted in a
verdict for the plf. for 6S5 feet of casing
at 12c per foot, making sl06.2O The
Prices have asked for a new trial.
The assumpsit suit of Perry Parsons
VS. Mrs c. NJ. Greenlee to recover S123
claimed for painting portrait, resulted
in verdict for the deft. because the
picture was not satisfactory.
The Sybert VS. Fetzer, ejectment suit
was settled by the parties after going TO
trial.
NEW SUITS :
Leah Otto VS. P. & w. Ry. Co, T NJ.
King, receiver and the Equitable Title
& Trust Co. indemnity bond of the
defts. in $4,000. filed 70 secure payment
to the plf damages TO be awarded for
entering upon her property in Harmony.
Mary A. Edwards by her father and
next friend John A Grade vs Isaac 5.
Edwards, libel in divorce for cruelty
and drunkenness.
Mary Ellen Cruikshank VS. Harvey
Cruikshank, of Winfield twp, libel in
divorce for cruelty.
Mary J. Graham, w. G. Kennedy,
Thomas c. Kennedy, ct al VS. John
Kennedy, summons in ejectment for
191 acres in Adams twp, bounded by
the lands of Gilleland heirs, Samuel
Marshall, Jas. McMarlin, and t. ".
Kennedy.
Commonwealth ex-Rel Henry Sproul
doing business as Fl. Sproul q Co. VS.
the Standard Plate Glass Co. Jas. L.
Hamilton, Pres. and j. Henry Trout
fnr
damus 70 compel the issuance of shares
of stock claimed bv the plf A hearing
will be held Dec 4.
Fl. H. Emery has petitioned for ap-
pointment of a guardian for Mrs.
Catharine Emery of Washington twp.
and Dec. was fixed as the date for
hearing.
DeForest Carr and Mrs. Anna Gulber-
son, who plead guilty to charges made
agaist them, were each sentenced Sat
urday to pay costs and 500 fine.
New trials have been asked for in the
suits of Bashline VS. Parker and Shakley
VS. Shakley.
The Ayres VS. Black equity suit has
DttH
The Park VS. Park divorce suit will be
heard Dec. ..
Two old letters patent from the Com
of Penn'a have been filed
this week, one dated July %, 1886, IS to
Stephen Vanderlin for 142 acres in
Mercer twp. for $2S 81, and the other,
A pril 26. 1850, to Robert 2. Anderson
for 1879 acres in Venango twp.
Dell Barnhart and Robert Crawford
have been held for Court for larceny by
Esq NJ. J. King. of Karns City, on COM
plant of John Welsh.
Isaac Harkless, the tenant, and Nor
ran Smith and Mark Mckee who re
Gently purchased the Thornburg house
On Institute Hill, had misunderstood
about the possession, which could not
be settled and as q result informations
for forcible entry and detainer have been
made against the latter two gentleman.
The contract for the County Home
which the Commissioners letto
+. j. Huff the local plumber, on his bid
Of $4560, has been approved by the
Court, under the original specifications
which call for goods according to the
of the Standard Mfg. Co. and
which the Co Commissioners kicked on.
The Court filed an opinion saying he
coald not ratify the contract until the
State Board of Charities approved it
and they refused to do it except under
the original specifications. Mr.. Frank
Terrence, Sec'y. of the Board of chari-
ties is also treasurer of the Standard
Mfg. Co.
Truly matters take queer turns some
times in law. Christian Stoner, old and
half blind. of Parsonsville, was brutally
beaten and robbed by three men. He
had David and j. E. Meals and John
Fleming arrested for it. They were
acquitted on trial, and then had him
arrested on capias for tresspass for
slander. each claiming $4,000 damages.
$4,000 bail was required in each case
$4,000 in all. Mr. Stoner would not get
the bail and is now in Jail. He has a
little money and thereby hangs the tale.
Further investigation into the alleged
jury panel fraud unearthed at Clear
field last week is said to have developed
the fact that the entire panel of Grand
and traverse jurors drawn for oyer and
Terminer court was spurious, in that
not one of the "a Grand jurors or one OF
the 80 traverse jurors was drawn from
the wheel, although it happened that
two OF the former names and six of the
latter were in the wheel when the list
was made up.
The trial of the suit in trespass, for
5000, 900 damages, brought by the city
of Pittsburg against Senator William
Finn, ex-City Attorney w. G. More
land, ex-Assistant City Attorney w. IL.
House, J. J. Booth and Booth & Finn,
was called before Judge J. ". F.
White, president judge of Common
Pleas Court No. 2, of Allegheny Co,
Monday morning The suit was based
on the alleged action of ex-Assistant
City Attorney House in loaning city
money to Senator Finn, and resulted
from the recent discovery of the ex-
istence of cancelled checks made pay
able to House and indorsed to the order
of Finn and Booth & Finn and signed
by City Attorney Moreland. 1t was
agreed by the attorneys for both sides
to dispense with jury trial and sub
NIT the entire case to Judge White.
Finn is putting up a good defense,
and came near securing a non-sult,
Tuesday.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
Amos Steelsmith to Sarah G. Douthett
lot on w. jefferson st. Butler, for $500.
Jacob Ehrman to Lewis G. Ehrman
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