The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-17
HISTORY OF A DEED,
A Lost Deed in Connection With the
COok-Remer-Zins Land Case "
Tried Last Week. - ,=
Echoes of Last Weeks Court Pro-
ceedings--Criminal Cases to
Come Up To-day.


y Court continued to grind slowly but
surely the last half of last week. On
Thursday three jury cases were dis
posed of and in the evening Judge
Searle listened to the attorneys in the
famous land case of Cook VS.. Frank
zins and E.. N. Remer. The hearing
was resumed on the case Friday morn
ing and the evidence was not all SUBJ
mitted until noon. Mn the afternoon
the case of Adcock VS.. Rush was heard
by the court and it was four O'Clock
when the evidence was in and the argu-
ments had been made. Court adjourned
to Saturday morning when the Jury
was excused until Thursday morning
OF this week at nine o'clock, at which
time the court will take up. the crimi-
nal calendar and proceed to dispose
of it. 49,. 49,
In the case of Larson VS.. Winter the
jury brought in verdict for, the de-
PENDANT. Peter Larson, who lives up
on the Mike Drew brook, brought &C.
ton against Harrison r. Winter of the
old Mike Drew place for damages from
fires. Larson as plaintiff represented
also claims of a similar natureo two
parties in his vicinity named Berg and
johnson. The jury did not see any
cause for damages.
The next case of John Tritche and
Eldert Edmison against Delos NJ, Hunt,
was an appeal from justice court by
Hunt. The action was for stumpage
claim, appellant holding some hay that
plaintiffs had on the land, the amount
in controversy being very small. The
jury found verdict for plaintiffs in
the sum OF $3.50. The jury had the
case for several hours, and went to
supper late in the evening and after
returning agreed on verdict
The case of Delos N. Hunt VS.. An
drew Rust was for payment of note
that plaintiff claimed was one of sew
|eral that defendant gave to the father
OF plaintiff some time ago in a certain
land deal which was afterwards can
celled and the notes given by Rust had
all been returned excepting one which
in the course of some business trans
actions had been given to plaintiff by
his father who afterwards died. The
jury found verdict for defendant.
James Holland who was indicted bv
the grand jury for having sold team
of horses that it wasAcharged did not
belong to him, was given trial last
Thursday, and after the evidence was
in the judge took the case from the
jury and told Holland he was dis
charged, and to go his way, but called
him back long enough to remind him
in the future not to have anything
more to do with horse deals. It seems
that the evidence against Holland was
OF very flimsy nature and the circum-
stances surrounding the case were of
such nature that the court got dis
gusted with the whole affair. A party
named Nelson from Milaca it seems
some time in the past had been given
team by some other party to work
and when winter came on the team
which was in poor condition was placed
in charge of Holland, and Nelson at
the time told Holland he had better
shoot one of the horses which was a
good candidate for the bone ward. and
it seems he did not care what he did
with the other horse. Holland after
keeping the team some time, sold the
horses for $50. The sale evidently was
such good one that Nelson thought
Holland had better be reported to the
grand jury: and that body considered
the transaction of sufficient gravity to
return an Indictment. The judge was
not of the opinion that man should
be sent to the penitentiary for selling
an old horse that from a humane stand
point ought to- be shot and thus re-
warded for past services. -
With the promise on the part of the
attorneys interested in the case that
it would not take over half an hour the
court took up Immediately after sup
per Thursday the ~Cook-Zins-Remer
land case which was continued from
the September term. The case is one
that involves title to $50 acres of land
located near Bridgman and there is
more or less mystery to the whole
affair. Samuel M. Cook, single man
who resided in Massachusetts, secured
from one Valentine in 1894 a large
tract of land located in the vicinity of
Bridgman. The late Coleman M.
Brldgman was his attorney in fact and
had the handling and sale of the lands
in question. This power of attorney
was given Bridgman in 1885, several
years before the sale Of the lands in