Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-01-24
LEGAL NEWS.


The trespass suit Of Ulrich Winter y
the p W railroad went 70 trial last
Thursday and was not finished until
Tuesday afternoon when the jury re-
turned a verdict giving Winter 500 as
damages TO his mill buildings and house
and S4l0O as damage to his water power,
$500 in all When the railroad made
the ReibOld- -Eideneau cut of and
Strengthened their main tracks in that
neighborhOod in ls9S. they filed in the
channel OF the creek above Winters dam
il two places and changed the stream :
course. iujuTing Winters water power.
4 i'll in the main channel below the
mill backed the water up into the tail
race and stopped the mill wheel and at
the same time Winters mill and house
We're injured by stones thrown from
blasts. Winter sued for 10000 damages.
4 year ago he got 4 verdict for $4,000.
The railroad moved for a new trial
which was granted with Tuesdays
result
The SANDER suit Of Mrs Maria Kirch-
ner vs. Miss Olive Matthews was tried
Tuesday. The plaintiff is the widow Of
Hieronymus Kirchner. who died year
ago and both parties live in the neigh
bOrhOOd Of Mexican and Quarry streets,
Butler. The plaintiff asserted that the
defendant circulated reports alleging
immortality on the part Of Mrs. Kirch-
ner. which caused trouble in her house
hold and alienated her husbands af-
fectiOns
Verdict for the plf. for cts. damages
and put half the costs on each party,
The assumpsit suit Of Mrs. Lulu
Michael vs. s. NJ SeatOn, adm'r OF Geo.
Flowers was continued until March.
The suit Of Mrs. Annie E. Hawk W
A Guckenheimer Bros. for $4,000
damages for the death Of her husband
By falling from a narrow walk at the
top Of fermenting tanks 20 the cement
floor in the distillery at FreepOrt Is on
trial before Judge White.
Two important suits were those in
ejectment Of VIM II. Martin, Esq. rs
Findley B. DOdds and W VI. Starr. aud
Of Mrs Emma J. Kiskaddon VS. F. b.
Dodds. Starr & Co. and 7. w Phillips.
They were tried before Judge Harry
White Of Indiana county and in both by
direction Of the Court, the verdict was
for the plaintiff for an undivided one
sixth interest in the land described in
LlE VIII HIS ldIA ~ lF5EIIDtd II tut
old John Martin farm in Penn twp
four miles south Of Butler, and in each
case the plaintiff was one Of six children
Of John Martin The latter being
dead. lis executors obtained leave Of
Court ia 1881 u sell his real estate for
payment Of debts the law at that time
requiring such sales 10 be at public ont
cry At the sale Mr. DOdds bid Sl1OG
and the executor asked to have Court
continue the sale, regarding the bid as
too low. Later Mr. Dodd= privately
raised his bid 10 $1,000 the ex rs thought
this good price aud asked the Court to
confirm the sale a. though public which
was done. After Mr. Dodds had oc-
cupied the farm nearly twenty years
the two plaintiffs bring the ejectment
suits, claiming the Court could not
legally confirm the sale rs though public
Judge White, according 10 the law, rul-
ed that the sale was not public, and
shoald not have been confirmed and di-
rected verdict for the plaintiffs Starr
& Co and Phillips are lessees and have
number Of oil wells on the farm.
This morning the jury in the suit Of
VIM Boundy VS. p. 81 w railroad for
damages 10 his lease on the Kline farm
in Forward twp, gave him verdict
for El100
NEW SUITS.