Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-09
MISS MASON SUES.
Breach Of Contract Suit on Ac.
count Of Tunis Failure.
Young Lady Hurt in nm Accident Claims
Damages Lumber Dealers Sued for
$4,000 for Not Delivering Goods and
Not Buying Timber.


Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. w. Mason who OIL
ieges that While a passenger on a York
street eiectrlc car on the evening of
July 9th last. she was thrown down
and injured by reason of anotber c,r
crashing :nto the one from which she
was about to alight. has entered suit
III the Court of Law and Chancerv
aSaInst the Norfolk Railway and Light
no op ed Tor $4,000 damages. Attor-
heys Tor the plaintiff: Wake e. Old
and I'll. III. Rumble.
HEAVY SUITS ENTERED.
Suits for breach of contracts ,ro,o
entered in the Court of Law and
Ihqncery yesterday afternoon against
u. ~. Duke and a. r. Smith, lumber
oea,ers, trading as Duke & Smith.
Inc piaintilfs are John l.. Gay, who
raan Sio'ooo damages sustained by
Ieason OF the defendants failure to
receive the output OF Tunis. N. G..
lumber mill, and Charles S. Heard Of
augusta, Ca. who claims $4,000 bv
reason of breach of contract for the
purchase of standing timber in Geor-
Sia.
The defendants deny that they have
broken Sny contracts with the plain
TINS or that they are in any way in
uebted to them. They contend that the
contracts. If any existed, were broken
ny the plaintiffs. Edward r: Baird
Jr., is counsel for the plaintiffs. and r
w. Shultice is counsel for the defen-
dants.
DEED OF RECORD.
Victor w. Chaffee to John A. Ander-
son, Jr.. stock OF goods in store No. 255
church street; 500.
RELEASED ON PAROLE.
Ollie Robinson, of 81 Avon street.
committed to Jail Thursday in default
Oh payment of S25 fine for striking
Lottie Hastings over the head with a
cologne bottle while the latter was
dragging her about the house bv tho
hair of her head, was released by Po-
lice Justice Taylor yesterday mornine
condltionally upon her paying the s25
fine by September 22d.
PEDDLERS FINED
henry Jones and Charles Bumpass,
alias William Murdick the negroes mr.
rested yesterday for peddlinE peaches
ana cabbage on East Main street with
out license, were fined $3.50 each in
Police Justice Taylor's Court yester-
day.
THE FIRST FROM NORFOLK.
Thomas Sherron, the first colored
hoy to be sent from Norfolk to the ne
gro reformatory, at Hanover, was car
ried away yesterday afternoon by
superintendent John H. Smythe. col
ored' who has charge OF the reforma-
tory.
STREET. RAILWAY ENJOINED.
The Norfolk Railway and Light
company has been enjoined from ex-
tending its tracks from the Park to a
point near the Indi@I Poll Bridge. on
the ground that the route is not a pub
Tic highway-thus tenn orariIy, ut
least, preventing the establishment of
a proposed loop of the line in that vi
cinity. The injunction was issued at
the instance of the Bridge Company
SUIT FOR $1,000.
]. Fl. Gassett through r. Randolph
Hicks. counsel. has brought suit in
the Court of Law and Chancery
against the Norfolk Railway and Light
Company for $4,000 damages. The
plaintiff alleges that he was thrown 10
the street and badly injured while
alighting from an electric car on Olney
road, in Client, in June. Also that he
received fracture of the arm. internal
Injuries and severe bruises.
MAID CHARGED WITH STEALING.
Laura Scott. colored. a Monticello
Hotel chambermaid. was charged in
the Police Court yesterday morning
with stealing 500 from Il. r. Gornto,
VINO took room at the Monticello
early Friday morning and subsequently
found his pocketbook lying on a dress
CT in his room empty. There was no
evidence that the wo~ean had taken
the money and she WAS discharged
from custody.
ALLEGED HIGHWAYMAN GOES