The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-02
DISTRICT COURT

business transacted in the district
court OF this county, recently closed;
State of Kansas vs.. Elmer Marnlee
and Malissa A. Brown.-This case was
brought by the state charging the de.
PENDANTS with maintaining a nuisance
or gambling honse In the city of Erie,
where games OF chance with cards and
dice were played. They were arraign-
ed before Squire Dutton, and were
bound over to the district court, and
there plead guilty to the first count In
the information, and each was SEN
fenced to imprisonment at hard labor
in the state penitentiary for one year
and to pay cOsJs OF the action.
State Of Kansas vs. Ed Wainscott
and G.. A. Vines.-The defendants
were arrested at Ranch No. 101, Okla.
homa, charged with stealing a span OF
mules from widow down In Lincoln
township. They were given prelim-
mary at st. Paul, plead guilty in the
district court, ard Wainscott was sen.
fenced to two years and six months at
hard labor in the penitentiary.
Vines, who Is a young man OF about
~ yCdtSg was SCuuChSCu w pCIiOu
not exceeding seven years In the State
Industrial ReformatOry, Hutchinson.
State OF Kansas vs. Jerry Hale.-De.
fendant was arrested at Ohanute,
charged with hog stealing; bound owe
to court, plead guilty, and was SEN
formatory until discharged therefrom
according to law, his term of impris-
onmeDt not to exceed five years, the
maximum penalty provided by law
for the Offense.
L. R. Stanley vs.. A. T. & S. f. Ry.
Plaintiff obtains Judgment for $4,000
against defendant for personal injury
. while IN its service.
Defendant files motion to set aside
the general verdict, and Is sustained
on the grounds and for the reason
that the answers to the special ques-
tions submitted to the jury are incon.
sistent with each other and incoDsist.
ent with the general verdict.
Geo. T. Bridges VS.. Ed G. Dent, G
N. Lindsay and the Chanute State
Bank.-This action grew out Of the
settling up of a partnership business
conducted in the city of Chanute
BY consent Of parties at the Decem
ber term Of court, all the issues here
in both OF law and Of fact were refer
red to S. w. Brew ster, Esq, of Cha
mute, to hear and determine the same
and to report at the April term.
At the April term the report Of the
referee was approved, and judgment
was rendered on the report that the
plaintiff recover of the defendants
Dent and the Chanute State Bank the
sum of S244 %. Plaintiff and defend
ant Dent to each pay one half the
cost of referee and each pay one-hal1
the costs of the action. Defendant
Lindsay will recover of plaintiff his
costs.
The Allen State Bank vs.. Herbert
Johnson as director, and School Dist
rict No. 96. in Neosho county.-This
case grew out of little smooth jugg-
| ling of an agent for school supplies
wherein the agent delivered the goods
and sold the account with many Other
| accounts of like nature to the plain.
| tiff, and later the bank sought to re-
cover the amount. The school board
composed OF II. johnson as treasurer
| w. HI. Durey as clerk, and II. Mon
| tague as director, appeared for de
| fendant and succeeded In showing tr
| the satisfaction of the court that the
order for the supplies had been fraud
ulently obtained, and judgment was
entered against plaintiff for costs.
Belle Adams VS.. e. M. Burton.-
| The matter in controversy grew Ou
| Of general miXup on public high
way over the matter of few Qollars
rent aud the possession of some farm
| property near Thayer, Ia which word
with magnified meanings were used
| such as "liar," "villaln" and like epi
thets. Soon words failed to expires.
the feelings of the combatants, ant
cudgels were brought into play. TIL,
fight then became general and a shot
gun appeared upon the scene; then ;
desperate struggle ensued for its pos
session, in which the plaintiff wa.
| supposed to have been broken SQuarely
in two. Plaintiff came into court anC
asked that damages be awarded her il
| the sum Of $1,000 for injuris sustained
at the hands of the defendant, for {
dislocated shoulder and broken col
lar bone. The matter was submitted
to jury, which after deliberatinG
five hours, brought in verdict in ia
vor of plaintiff for cent and costs.
Chas. A. Budd as executor OF estate
OF j. G. BowlIn, deceased, was giver
judgment against j. l.. Craue and L
G. Lindsay for s233 20 and costs. Ac
tiOn dismissed as to Fred II. Ball, one
Of the defendants.
W. Beatty ct al vs.. III NJ. Turner el
al.-Sometime two or three years age
Hon. j. B. Beatty, deceased, and the
defendant, III. M. Turner, purchased 8
tract Of land In the south part OF Cha
mute near the round house, and they
entered into contract regarding The
purchase, surveying, plating and sell
Ing Of the ground after it was plated
into streets and alleys. During his
lifetime Mr. Beatty failed to perform
all OF his part o. the contract, and the
defendant took the position that the
contract had been forfeited, and hi
having the legal title to the property
took possession. Plaintiffs, the heir.
and representatives OF J. B. Beatty
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