Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-01-29

thNtu II ...ss.s+ss.......... .....SurrY
SECOND TRAVERSE JURY.
Soper, LUX, foreman. Buck sporI
Bresnahan. John II .......... ........ Ellsworth
bu'ler. James OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Hancock
Iai, FRANK Ellsworth
Condor, James S....................Br voksville
Clan, Heritrt .Orian,i
Hea'h. Alvin x ...... ,............. Penoiiseot
Hamor, Charles ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Eden
Hixsins, Nathan W........,...............E Eden
Ho'lgkins, Rdfus ..................... Lanlvine
Workman, Talbot 8 ............... Gouldsboro
Young. Harry Co... ..................... Surry
Thursday was a record making day IN
the Hancock county court, there beip z
three trials and three verdicts by one
jury
AT the opening OF court In the morn
ing, the gem raj trisl list was gone over,
aud cases not already disposed OF and
which we're Tor trial or other disposal dur
ing the term, we're put on the assiR led
list, most Of them for Thur day, Jan. 80.
In the assigned list reprinted below,
these cases are added.
DELANo VS.. ABBOTT.
The first case tried Was That OF Delano
Bros, OF Verons, VS.. Watson w. Abbott,
| OF Lewiston, an action on account for
bill of groceries amounting to about $50
Plaintiffs admitted that bill for part OF
account, contracted more than six years
| prior to commencement OF the action, had
not been presented or taken into account
In subsequent settlements with the de.
| PENDANT, being an oversight in not trans
ferring old account to new ledger, bur
they relied upon subsequent ca-h pay.
ments on the running account to extend
the old sccount for which bills had moi
| been rendered. The court ordered u Yer
| oict for defendants.
| CASES AGAINST TRENTON LUMBER co
! The second case taken up was an equity
care II Morrison & Joy, OF Ellsworth, vs.
the Trenton Lumber Co TO establish g
1 lien. The lien il on the mill at Baystdt
for bill amounting to several hundred
dollars.
1t was necessary for the plaintiffs to
| prove first that the material entered into
the construction OF the mill, aud second
that some part OF the material was furn.
| filing OF the bill, Ia order to hold their
lien good. This they succeeded in doing
and verdict was rendered for Plaintiffs
| the third case tried was a similar Gu.
against the same company, the paint Fl
| In this action being the Ellsworth Ium Der
| company. and the Till for lumber. In this
also the verdict was for plaiut f..
oRLAND vs. PENoBsooT.
Friday morning the pauper case, Inbab-
itants of Orland VS.. Inhabitants OF Penob-
scot, went on trial. Tue plaintiff, sued
for bill OF Ga OF for pauper supplies fur
nished Wallace Heath, but the action was
really TO determine the pauper residence
of Heath.
Heath was born in Penobscot In 1874,
and lived there with his father until his
marriage in 1893, when he moved to
| Ocland. where he still resides. Five
years residence in town without receiv-
ing psuper supplies is necessary to gain
psuper settlement.
Plaintiff. claimed that, though Heath
moved to Orland In 1898, being a minor
his pauper settlement Was still with his
father in Penobscot; that within three
years after be became of age, he applied
to The town OF Penobscot for pauper sup
plies, which would continue his psuper
settlement in that town up to that time
that again, within three years after
receiving supplies from Penobscot, be
received pauper supplies from the town
OF OrIand, which was the bill sued for.