The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
COURT HOUSE NOTES..

ton Island Pleasure9 and Improvement
Club and H. B. and L. H, Zoucks,
which has been hanging fire in the
courts for nearly five years, came to
an end yesterday in the Superior Court
when judgment was rendered against
the. defendants as maker and indorser,
respectively, on a note for $50, with
protest fees, interest and costs of
court. The case was tried before Judge
Seabrook, Judge Barrow being dis
qualified by reason of his former con-
nection with the case as counsel for
the plaintiff. Osborne & Lawrence rep
resented the plaintiff and T. L. Hill,
the defendant.
In answer to the suit for damages
instituted against 1t for the destruc-
tion of certain property on the Her
mitage plantation, the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, through its attorney, ].
Randolph Anderson, disclaimed any
responsibility or liability for the ac-
cident, as a result of which the prop
erty was burned. The suit was insti-
tuted by Rivers & Gibbes and D. w.
Zipperer, who claimed that sparks
from a passing engine of the railway
company, in it's answer, submits that
the locomotive stacks were provided
with spark arresters, and due precau-
ton was observed, and that, therefore
II can not be held for the damages re-
sulting.
An order staying the sentence of
Willie Calvin, who was sentenced to
be hanged on Friday, was passed in
the Superior Court yesterday. Argu-
ment on the motion for the new trial.
which was some time ago made by F.
P. Salas and William Pease, counsel
for the accused, will be heard on
Monday. The judgment and sentence
are superseded until the determination
of the case by the Supreme Court.
Because her husband, though order
ed to pay her SO per month as ALI
mony, has only paid her so cents,
Affie Molten yesterday applied for a
rule for contempt against him, and
Judge Barrow set the case for hearing
on Friday. The applicant is represent
ed by ]. F. Evans.
The evidence in the Bourqun-Ta
murder trial has been Transcribed by
the official court stenographer, Mr.
John NJ. Thomas. The testimony covers
GOO pages of closely typewriter copy,
and is one of the most volumnous rec
ords of single case in the courts of
the county. Mr.. Thomas has been en-
gagged for some time in the work. and
for several weeks past has been work.
ing both night and day, having his
regular court duties to perform in adj
dition. The argument for a new trial
takes place Feb. Fl.
The jury in the City Court, which
was drawn for the trial of cases this
week has been called off until to-mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock, the cases
assigned for trial having been displaced.
Cases have been assigned for trial I'M
til the latter part of April
William M. Farr was appointed a
commercial notary public yesterday by
Judge Barrow in the Superior Court.
r. H. Tatem and E. w. O'Connor were
reappointed.
The habeas corpus proceedings in the
Northcott case have been dismissed.
The officer from Tennessee having said
that Northcott is not the man wanted
for murder, the officers of the law did
not insist on holding him longer.
AS forecasted in the Morning News.
an application for release from Jail
was made to Judge Barrow yesterday
by w. NJ. Hayward, attorney for Rosa
Tutty. the negro woman who is in
carcerated by Charles Tutty because of
her failure 10 produce certain bonds
and other property with which he in
trusted her. The case was set for a
hearing on Monday.
Sharpe-Jackson Co. OF Scarboro. has
filed its answer to the involuntary pro-