Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-08-24
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS

INV t'NAAN7
Butler borough 10y Attorney Hunte
r Coulter has filed municipal liens OF
street paving assessments against LlzZl'
, Y. Graham for So 9s. Mrs Margaret
Graham for $3i2 l3, and against r, y
Hughes for S1l.63.
Emeline DeWolf Us Geoge w. Flem
ing summons in assumpsit for 5l2I
I In 1890 Thomas Flemming of Concord
twp died leaving a will which gave hl,
| farm to his son Geo w. and legacy OF
/ 500 to his daughter Emeline DeNolf
PAYABLE By Geo. W. five years after the
= testators death The plf. claims this
legacy has never been paid, and brings
suit for it and 4 years interest on Il.
c. NJ, Heeter vs. Geo. A. Shatfuer F.
J. Forquer and J. J. Liedicker, sum
mons in assumpsit for SJs6.6o, claimed
for gas used, IN pumping well on the
Mckinney and Duncan farms.
w. R. Mccormick was arrested at
} Mars and lodged in Jail Saturday ON q
capias in trespass sur libel He Is de-
fendant in two suits and $1,000 bail Is re-
Quired in each. One suit IS brought by
Henry Roberts to recover damages for
the contents of a letter written by Nc
Cormick to Geo. NJ Cate on the 24th Of
July last The letter says Mr.. Roberts
is liar and other things worse. The
other suit is brought by Mr.. Roberts
! granddaughter Jessie +. Holmes by her
father and next best friend Harry l..
Holmes on a libelous letter written by
Mccormick to Cate in Nov, 1888. Nc
Cormick is a Pittsburg lawyer living on
a rented farm at Mars.
Sc. Pryor VS. c. c. Kerr summons in
! repleYin.
n. Dambach VS. The Bushcreek Mu-
/ tual Fire Association, summons IN as
sumpsit, statement of claim Sli6j, Al.
Margaret c. Bromfield VS. Clearfeld
I twp. John Reiger and James Mcbride,
/ Supervisors. summons in trespass; state
ment of claim $40, 900, On Feb $, 1899.
/ after dark, Mrs. Bromfield was driving
/ along road in said twp, near where
/ the \. q w railroad crosses the same
and horse, sleigh and driver We're
/ thrown over an embankment about 10
! feet deep and she sustained fractured
! skull, frozen feet and other injuries,
and alleges that the absence of guard
rails was responsible for the accident.
The Little Traveller Fence Co, for
use of John and Henry Berg vs. A. II.
Knauf, appeal from decision of Jacob
Keck, J. z.
B. B. Sybert VS. G. F. Fetzer, sum
| mons in trespass. The plaintiff alleges
that the defendant has wrongfully tax
en- and used oil belonging to the plain
tiff.
NOTES.
The pamphlet Ia VS., recently issued, are
the smallest in bulk since 1888. The
number of bills approved is 321, with 20
Joint resolutions. The number of dis |
approved after the adjournment of the |
Legislature is 81. The number of bills, |
however, does not indicate the new
laws enacted; III being appropriation
bills; % repeating bills, and 33 amenda- |
tory bills, most of which make but
slight changes in preceding acts.
A young civil engineer of London |
VINO was recently sued for breach Of |
promise asserted in his defense that his |
sweetheart grew cold and Indifferent. |
The plaintiff, as an offset to this charge, |
set forth with documentary evidence |
that when she wrote to her fiance with |
as much warmth as she was capa- |
BILE of he returned her let |
ters with faults OF orthography and |
grammar corrected in red ink This |
treatment, in the judgment of the court |
was sufficient to account for any wan |
ing of enthusiasm on the young wo-
mans part, and she was awarded YER
dict of $3.50
The grand jury of Washington coun-
ty found true bills against Col. Streator, |
of Washington, Pa, Col. Kay of Pitts
burg and Fred Emery of Allegheny Co. |
last Thursday, on charges of embracery |
and conspiracy in connection with the |
famous Hazlett embeZzlement case of |
last spring; and bench warrants were |
issued for them.
Hiram Christy and Samuel Andrew |
have each been held for trial on charges |
of assault and battery.
William Bricker of Butler has been |
held for Court on a charge of aggravat !
ed assault and battery preferred by An |
drew Manning.
Herman Brindinger, foreigner, was
arrested near Harmony and held for |
Court by Justice Zenas McMichaels
charged attempted rape
The will of Conrad Nicklass, late of |
Connoqunessing borough has been pro-
bated and letters granted to Mary Nick |
lass
At the invitation of the attorneys for |
the township people quite number of
the tax payers of Parker twp met with
the tax payers of Bruin, in Butler last
Monday, and an effort was made to
compromise and settle the school house
trouble and though nothing definite was
accomplished the parties got little
closer to each other
James Phillips was discharged from
Jail last Saturday, under the insolvent
laws.
George c. Stewart, an attorney of
Colorado, was admitted to the Bar here.
|. r. Heaven was given the contract
for the alb utments for bridge over
Connoquenessing creek at Marshalis S
Fording in Forward twp.
On Tuesday, j. H. Douthett OF Mars
had a hearing before Esq. Keck on a
charge of false pretense preferred by {.
Gelbach, and was held for Court. Gel
bach gave a note for $3.50 to Douthett