Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-07-16
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

Butler county is that of Edward J.
Ouigley. a Venango county oil inspec-
tor. VS. the Penn'a r. r. Co: for $780,
600 for injuries received in 4 wreck at
Silvery. Venango county, March 10.
1903. The plaintiffs attorneys are
Clarence and Samuel Walker and Lee
and Mackey of Pittsburg. The plaintiff
states that since the accident he has
to wear braces and supports to enable
him to walk. and has been prevented
from following his business, at which
he earned $40, 900 year. For the lnJu-
ry he asks $50, 900 and for medical at
tendance, nursing, etc. $40, 900
J John T. Shaner VS. Butler Light. Heat
| and Motor Co. ejectment for lot on Fair
view Ave. and P. & W. railroad (the
Birch property. The action is brought
to compel the deft. TO complete their
purchase, having brought on an article
Of agreement the lot for $500, paying
| $1,000 down.
d. E. Kinney, manager OF billiard
room. has been arrested on charge OF
running a poker room in connection
with his billiard business.
William Woods, who is also alleged
| to have rented out a room in the rear OF
his barber shop for poker playing, has
also been arrested for running
gambling house.
County Detective Barnes has entered
charges of violations of the liquor laws
against ". w. Cramer, a wholesaler OF
| Parker and Archie Thompson, his
| agent also against Louis Raphiel, IL
| quor agent from Indianapolis
Forty-t1o cases have already been
entered on the Quarter Sessions docket
for September term, which promises 10
be unusually large.
The John Walters farm in Jefferson
| twp. 40 acres, was sold last week at
Trustees sale to Fl. n. Hoffman for
S1655.
District Attorney Haymaker and
Coroner McGeary of Allegheny Co., had
a conference in reference to taking
| measures to greatly reduce the number
of deaths from lock-law in Allegheny
county. 1t is the intention of the coun-
| " officials to learn the names OF those
| who have been selling firearms to boys
| under IS years of age and To make in
| formations against them under the act
of 1882 They are of the opinion this
will do away with the chances of bors
wounding themselves in such manner
that lockjaw sets in and kills them.
Viewers appointed by the Court this
week awarded J. Fl. Wick $4,000 damage
against the W. & A. railroad. A view
ON the D. L. Rankin place was held
Yesterday.
Samuel Johnston of Buffalo twp. is
in Jail on two charges of larceny for
alleged chicken stealing.
The viewers in the w. S. Mccullough
farm in Fairview twp. finished their
| work last Friday, and allowed 81, 500
damages vs. the Western e. Allegheny
r. r. Co. The cut takes III acres and
destroyed splendid spring.
DIR. H. j. Neely, T. 81. c. Keck and
". C. Grail were appointed commits
sion in lunacy on Julia Griimbever
and she was committed to Dixmont.
Chas Clark was sent to jail for 5 days
| for railroad trespassing
VIM. Jones was sent TO Jail for 80
days for vagrancy.
J. A Bonner. A M. Atkins and John
p. Young, commissioners in the parti-
| ton of the estate of the late Paul Trout
man, decd, have appraised the estate
as follows: The homestead and Nc
| Clung farms in Concord and Fairview
| tvs. AS acres with ten oil wells, S43,
| ESQ; three lots in Beuna Vista, S400;
house and lot on Miffiin St.. Butler,
S 800; house and lot in New Castle
s., 900. The personal estate amounted
to about $15, 600.
The county commissioners of Mercer
| Co have notified the justices of the
peace of the county that all court
prisoners will be sent to The New Castle
Jail until the smallpox quarantine is
| raised at the Mercer Jail. The justices
are also notified to make final disposition
| Of cases of drunkenness and disorderly
| conduct. All cases of contagious diseases
sent to the Jail hereafter will be cared
| for by the county at expense of the
community from which they come.
| The first court in Venango County
was held, Dec. 16, 1903, and at a SPECIAL
meeting of the Venango County Bar
| Association. held on Wednesday, in
pursuance of call issued by the presi-
dent, Hon. James Denton Hancock, it
| was decided to arrange for the proper
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the establishment OF the courts of We
mango county. BY direction of the meet
ing, a committee of five was constitu-
ed to make the arrangements, and the
president appointed Judge G. Heydrick,
Judge George S. Criswell, J. II. Osmer,
Isaac Ash and F. w. Hayes. The date
for the affair has not yet been decided
upon.
The lawyers of Pennsylvania are all
interested in a decision made by the
State Supreme Court. last month in a
case in which a woman, although alive,
was declared. legally dead. The de-
cision reverses the opinion of the super
ior court and the common pleas court
of Berks county, which declared an act
of 1885 unconstitutional. A number OF
Of similar cases have been pending.
The litigation was started in Reading,
Pa, when the Berks county orphans
court, under the act Of 1886, declared
that Mrs. Margaret Cunnius, of Read
ing, who in 1888 had disappeared and.
being not heard of afterward was legally
dead. This was done in 1897. she had
a dover interest in some property and
the money was paid to the administra-
tors. In 1899 intelligence came from
, SanFrancisco that the woman was alive
and living there. She employed Attor-
ney Caleb j. Bieber Of Reading, to re-
cover her dover interest. Suit was
: brought and Judge G.. A. Endlish decid-
ed that the woman was alive and EMIT
led to her dover The case was appeal
ed and the superior court sustained
Judge Endlish. Again the defendant
appealed and this time was sustained by
, the supreme court. The case attracted
. widespread attention in this and other
. States, because Of the legal principle
: involved-the right of courts to deprive
! persons of their property. Under the
act Of 1885, after an absence of seven
years without any intelligence being re-
ceived Of missing person, the courts
may appoint an administrator OF the
missing persons estate, and the person
! be adjudged legally dead. The com
9 mon pleas and superior courts in decid
? ing that the woman was alive held that
I the act % 1886 was in opposition to the
: fourteenth amendment of the United
r States, and therefore void. Since the
3 act of 1885 has been in force several
3 adjudications have deem made nnder il
in Western Pennsylvania. Under tn,
: ruling of the supreme court these pro
+, ceedings can be revoked by the parties
interested through due process Of law
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
W III Wilson to J Demit 100 acre.
+ in Slipperyrock for $500
C Michael Murrin to Smith McCreight