Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-27
Case Now On The Last OF
The Docket.
COURT MATTERS NEXT
Duncan Proceedings Thrown Out of Court
After Sensational Ending. 9th
er Proceedings.

The February term OF circuit court
for Grant county will soon be a mat
ter of history. With the completion
Of the case o or wherein VIM.
Thoennisen is plaintiff and Joseph
Thoennisen, his father, defendant,
the cases for trial by jury will have
been exhausted for this term.
The action brought by John Bausch-
ka VS. Thos. Mickey which was on.
trial at time the Herald went to press
last week, was decided i'll favor Of the
plaintiff and the amount involved is
1920 including costs for the defend
ant to pay. The jury was then dis
charged and allowed a recess to Mon
day noon of this week.
The first matter called Monday af-
ternoon was a divorce case which
took but a few moments Of time.
Eta Segfreit desired legal separation
from Eugene Segfreit, her husband.
The parties reside in Cassville and
the grounds OF divorce cited were de-
sertioa. The couple were married in
1897 and the undutitul husband left
his wife soon after and has never
provided for her support or that of a
Young son. She was forced to live
with her parents and desired res
toration to her maiden name and Gus
tody of her boy. After hearing
statement ot the circumstances
through her attorney, II. W. Brown,
the court granted the divorce and or
dered an alimony of 800 attached to
the decree.
The case of the Peninsula Stove
Co. of Detroit VS. Jacob Beimborn, a
hardware dealer OF Boscobel was next
called. The congregation Of st.
Lawrence church at Mt. Hope decided
a year or more ago to install a fur
mace in their place Of worship and
Mr.. Beimborn took the contract. AS
agent for the Peninsula company he
ordered and placed N position n Of
their wood furnaces. After repeated
trials and many delays the heating
apparatus was found to be inadequate
and the church committee refused to
accept it. Mr.. Beimborn in turn re-
fused to pay the company for it and
claimed I - be not as represented.
This bro Il the suit on part of the
COMPANY d the case occupied the
attention the court Monday and a
portion Of tuesday. Atty. H. W.
Brown appeared for the corporation
and Atty. Platt Whitman for defen-
dant. A jury composed of c. H. Carl,
VIM. Bald, Geo. A. Kreul, John o.
Flaherity, John Williams, A. G.
Barnes, Oscar Knapp, j. z. Smith,
John Wills, VIM. Harvey and Benz
Reiter deliberated on a verdict for
many hours and late Tuesday night
agreed. Wednesday morning it was
announced and was in favor Of de-
fendant. Atty. Brown Immediately
moved for a new trial. The court
will hear the motion later in the
term.
Divorces were granted Robert G..
Pierce from Irene Pierce and l.. S.
Newton from Henry Newton.
Chas. Peters, charged with attempt
to commit rape, VINO plead not guilty
70 the charge last week was allowed
TO withdraw his plea and consented to
plead guilty to charge Of assault,
which he did. Sentence has not yet
been pronounced.
Geo. Muesse VS. John Fahy. Judg-
ment Of foreclosure signed.
Maud Cooley vs. Asa Cooley. Di-
vorOe granted.
S. 0. Boom VS. H. j. Goold ct al.
Judgment on failure to answer signed.
On account Of the prevalence of
smallpox at Montfort the case of State
ys Wesley Rowe, charged with lar
ceny, was continued.
VIM. Rudersdorf, q iuryman from
Fennimore, was excused an account
Of defective hearing.
The much talked of case of adultery
against w. j. Duncan was called for
trial Tuesday but terminated very alb
ruptly. A jury was drawn composed
Of Emil Grattan, John Joyce, Chas.
Zimmerman, Henry Ruchtl, John
Ntippich, Scott Bunker, James Gel
vim, Edward Meyer, James Glennon,
VIM Andrews, JOS. Williams and
Iheo. Lowrey, Jr. Dist. Atty. Brown
opened the case for the prosecution
while Atty, Ed. M. Lowry looked al
ter interests of the defendant. The
complainant, Libbie Robinson, of
Beetown, was sworn but the testi-