Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-03-01
LEGAL NEWS.
TRIAL LIST

TRIAL LIST.
Common Pleas Court convened Mon
day morning The first cases tried
were three assumpsit suits against ".
L. Curtis, who is in Germany at present,
brought by Chas K. Ray, y. Rea and
Archie Watson to recover wages for
work done on the defts. oil wells near
Petersville. The jury returned a verdict
awarding Chas X. Ray S11S.72, \, Rea
S135 6S and Archie Watson SlO9.1S.
A compulsory nonsuit was entered
against the plf in the ca Sc of J. NJ.
Steinbrook vs. Dillie Russell, adm'rx of
O. NJ Russell, which was brought to re-
| cover damages claimed to be done by
an un-plugged abandoned well.
The cases of Gantz and Ash VS. the
! p d w railroad and OF Meals and
/ Fleming vs. Stoner have been continued
on account of the disability of Attorney
{ r. p Scott, who Is connected with
/ them.
The slander suit Of Mrs. Maggie Abel
! vs. Mrs Rose B. Copley was tried We'd
nesdav afternoon. Mrs Abel was Mrs.
| Copley's tenant, their houses being on
! the same lot on the South Side. Last
| September Mrs Abel moved out of Mrs.
! Copleys house and after she was gone
| the deft told Cbas Heeter and wife that
Mrs. Abel took silver spoon, glass Of
| jelley and some napkins. The sCit WAS
brought for damages and this morning
the jury gave a verdict of 500 for plH.
The case of Jennie Simcox VS. Z. J.
DeWoody involving oil property in
Venango twp. has been on trial since
Monday.
The assumpsit suit of David S Girls
well vs JOSIAH Wigton to recover Si0O
the value of rig belonging to Mr.
Mcfarland which Wigton sold to Girls
well Is on trial.
NEW SUITS
David p McCandless vs. John Duffy
of Cherry twp. summons IN trespass for
$500 damages claimed because the defts
ferocous dog frightened the plf's horse
causing it to run away and upset the
buggy. throwing Mr.. McCandless out
and severly cutting and bruising him.
John Halstead VS. American Mutual
Gas Co. for 1898. 20 for boiler and gas
line pipe which he states the deft took
off his land and converted to its own
use.
Miss Grace Phillips of New Castle
and Miss Mary Knapp Of Washington,
D. c. have entered suit VS. the +. q W.
for the Renfrew accident Of last snm-
mer.
Mars Institute VS. T. NJ Marshall
appeal by deft from Judgment of 5000,
rendered by c. E. Anderson J p. W.
j. Link has also appealed from SINH
lar Judgment OF 800. The suits We're
brought for subscriptions by the defts.
to the Mars Institute which they refus-
ed to pay when the citizens disagreed as
to its location.
T. H Infeld W J. r. Grieb appeal
by deft from Judgment of 1928 rendered
by Justice Cochran.
COURT CALENDAR.
Calendar for Common Pleas court
commencing Wednesday, March a.
March 14-W L. Kline VS. P 81 w.
r. r. appeal from award of viewers
March 15-Alice Nair VS. Leander
Long, title TO property; Ada Martin VS.
Butler borough, appeal from award of
viewers; Geo. w. Lindsey VS. Charles II.
Parker, trespass
March l6-John Rossman VS. Frank
Burr, trespass: Cumberland Bone Co
VS. T. f. Green, assumpsit +. Z. Miller
VS. Henry Greenwalt, trespass; w. A.
Mccormick VS. Winger d Nicholson,
title to property.
Monday March 19-Simon and Bell
Barrickman VS. Butler borough, trespass;
II. Rennick VS. McCafferty q Stinson,
assumpsit; J. NJ Hassell VS. same, same.
March 20-W. G. Kennedy ct al vs.
john c. Hespenhide, trustee, ejectment;
VIM Bundy VS. P. w r. r., damages;
Washington twp. VS. Harmon Seaton, d
II. Shira and John c. Clark; Geo. Bish-
op vs. Mary Donley, assumpsit.
NOTES.
Origin q. McCandless, John II Jack
son, John Murrin and Theodore Keck
have successfully passed the nnal exam
nations as students at law and were
sworn in Monday
a suit for the infringement of patents.
which, if successful will involve oyer
$12, 900 900, was begun in the United
States Circuit court before Judge NJ
w. Acheson last Friday The particu-
lars of the case are interesting The
plaintiffs claim that the alleged in
/ fragments are on patents on friction
clutch and compensating gear Of trac-
ton engine, such as is used to operate
threshing machines. The suit is brought
by Il. r. Bliss as trustee for the Avery
& Rouse Steam Traction company of
Peoria, Ill, with headquarters in Chi
cago, and the Minnesota Threshing En-
glne company, whose works are at Still
water, Mimi, against the agents of the
Garscott, Huber, Frick and other com
panies and profits are claimed on some
40, 600 machines.
Letters of administra tion on the es-
tate of Robert ID. Pettigrew, decd, of
| Washington twp have been granted to
Esther A. Pettigrew; also on the estate
of Thomas Hilliard, decd, of Washing
ton twp. TO John H. f. Campbell; also
on the estate of Hugh Thomas Haggerty
of Marion twp. to Henry Haggerty
The will of Peter Christie, decd, of
Butler has been probated James Chris
tie, Jennie Christie and w. NJ Starr
executors; also the will of Martin Sch
weitzer, decd, of Buffalo twp no let
tiers; also the will of Samuel Kelley
decd, of Worth twp. and letters tesla
mentary granted to Thomas b. Kelley
and S. j. Taylor; also the will of Mich
ael Dieter, decd, of Millerstown, and
/ letters to William Dieter.
Miles Harper, formerly of Concord
| twp, will be put on trial at McConnells,
vile, Morgan Co Ohio, on March 18th,
and several citizens of Concord were in
| town Monday to make depositions re-
Sarding his peaceable character while
living here. Sometime last fall Miles
| returned to his home unexpectedly and
found another man with his wife, and
| shot and killed him
1 Perry Campbell of w Sunbury has
been appointed tip staff
The trouble between Frick and Car
negie led to the entering of another suit
in equity, in Pittsburg, Monday, re-
gardlng the contract for coke to be
/ furnished by the Fricll Co. to the Car
negie Steel Co. 1t is alleged that Car
negie forced a rate of S135 a ton for
two half millions of tons of coke
| The assault and battery cases against
! the Faulkner boys Of Buffalo twp. grow
| ing out of a scuffle with their school
| teacher were settled
! VIM Humphrey, Jas H. Barr and J.
! NJ. Marshall were appointed commits
sloners to divide and value the lands of
ID. *. Frazier, late of Muddycreek twp
, on petition of Catharine NJ. Roth and
Catharine II. Frazier for partition.
| William Kline has been appointed
I guardian of the minor chi16ra,, cf To1