Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-04-16
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

Thompson Kyle Jr. VS. VIM. s. Hassell
bill in equity praying for an order an
nulling a coal lease owned by deft.
which has rested on kyles farm III
Cherry twp since 1863 without being
operated.
E. H. Harder VS. Standard Lumber
Co. appeal from Judgment rendered by
c. E Anderson, j. P.
Tony Stabel VS. John Wanaugh,
capias in trespass asking $1,000 damages
for SANDER bail in $500 required.
Wanaugh said Stabel stole $50 from
him it is alleged.
Martha S. Bole VS. c. \. Oleson. sum
mons in ejectment for a lot in Millers-
town.
OPINION IN PARKER TWP. CASE.
Judge Patton's opinion in the equity
case of Parker twp. VS. Bruin borough,
apportioning the school properties be-
| tween them was filed Monday. When
Bruin was erected into borough an
order was made that the Borough's
share of the property and expenses
should be 80 per cent, and the Townships
| 20 per cent Judge Pattons opinion
FIXES the value of Daubenspeck school
at S165, Oak Hollow $500, Shakeley
$3.50, Campbell $500, Smith $500, Nc
Mahan $780, Edwards $500. Parker 800,
Stevenson $500, furniture $1130. "A. a
total of $654S 30 for the township. For
the Borough, frame school $1,000, brick
school $500, furniture S400, total S740O,
a total for both of $1394S 30 of which
| the twp. is entitled to 20 per cent,
$9763. 81, rlak;rv 1925 81 to be paid by
Bruin to the towp. The Township had
received 1884 81 from various sources
| for which it must account to Bruin and
was ordered to pay the following debts
out of that amount. w. G.. Heiner
work $3.50, Harvey Gibson lot $3.50,
Isaac Meals So 30, costs S146.S9. Bills
Of the following were refused allow
ance: Jas. Twaddle and J. H. Heiner,
costs of Isaac Meals, costs of petition
| for independent school district (placed
on petitioners, citizens of Bruin); costs
on petition of citizens of Parker twp. to
remove Directors placed on petitioners;
| Roll Thompson, John NJ. Thompson,
and costs in Incorporation of Bruin
| borough.
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Martha Stevenson and Rosannah
| Campbell have petitioned for partition
of the real estate of their mother, Mrs.
Sarah J. Ramsey decd Of Centre twp.
Samuel Clark has resigned as Super
visor of Washington twp.
A charge of a&b has been entered
against Frank A. Pierce, Lyndora
painter, for engaging in fight.
DR.. w. B. Clark, w. B. Purvis Esq.
and Henry Whitmire, on petition Of
w. w. Bell, were appointed com
mission in lunacy on Sarah d. Bell of
Washington twp She was committed
to Warren Asylum.
The appointment of the Fidelity I'll
tie and Trust Co. of Pittsburg as guar
dian of minor grandchildren of Michael
Horneffer was revoked, on motion, Mon
day.
On Monday. Judge Galbreath filed an
opinion in the lunacy case of Charles j.
Wuller VS. Daniel Fl. Wuller, refusing a
new trial. The case is to go to the Su
preme Court,
In tn. case of Edwin Meeder, assig
nee of W. e. Wilkins, VS. M NJ. Goeh
ring, an opinion was filed deciding in
favor of the plf. and directing Judgment
in $75 to be entered in his favor.
In the case of Geo. C. Johnston, re-
ceiver of the Odd Fellows Endowment
Association, VS. Cyrus E. Anderson. An
opinion was filed directing judgment
for the defendant for costs The effect
of this opinion is to release members of
the defunct association from paying
back dues which would be used in set
Ting old claims. 1t is pleasing deci
sion to hundreds of Odd Fellows, as it
rules that they could withdraw from
the Endowment Association at will and
after withdrawal dues could not be col
lected off them.
In the case of j. w Eutchison, trus-
tee, Va Mary B. Ross ct al, an opinion
was filed refusing the defendants mo-
ton to strike off judgment, rendered by
default
In the damage case of Mrs. NJ. J.
Bickel VS. Concord twp. the plfs motion
for new trial was refused.
More business was transacted in
Court, Monday, than was ever done in
the Courts of Butler county i'll the same
length of time.
w. d. Brandon presented the petition
VI illC OCuOOl DlCCUOlS VI DublC1 LII
approval by the Court of sale of real es-
tate to JOS Balph, made in 1878. 1t ap-
pears that this had been neglected at
the time this and other sales of 1.-The
commons" were made.
In the case Of Butler boro VS. the Poor
District of Butler county, an opinion
was filed entering judgment in S72S. 40
in favor of the plaintiff and against the
county, for maintenance of smallpox
patients, last year.
VIM. Curry has been appointed super
visor of Concord twp.
f. E. Bracken has been appointed
Registry Assessor of the 3D. percinct, 3d>
ward, vice W. j. Allen, resigned.
E. P. R. Boyer has resigned as Bur-
CESS of Harmony.
Henry Knauff has been appointed
High Constable of Zelenople, vice
Ernest Lauten, resigned.
J. D. Marshall was appointed guar
| dian of the minor children of Catharine
Leise, decd, of Plano.
A settlement in the estate of Jacob B.
Flick, decd, of Middlesex twp has been
approved by the Court.
| Sheriff Gibson has been appointed
| guardian ad litem of Ida Oliver, minor
child of Kate Oliver of Butler, to give
consent to said minors marriage to
Arthur Jills.
Lydia Kennedy, admx, of Jas. Ken
nedy, decd, has been granted leave to
sell decedents real estate, house and
lot on w. Fulton st.
A court for the trial of civil cases has
been called for Monday, June 1.
jeremiah E. Williams was granted a
soldiers license; also S. G. Buckhol lder.
Mrs Almira Warner, mother of Edna
Warner, the 12-year-old girl who met a
violent death at the home of people
named Eagle with whom she was living
at Avalon, year ago was brought to
Jail from Petrolia, Tuesday. violently
insane During the night she nearly
succeeded in hanging herself with her
dress belt. A commission was appoint
ed and she was committed to.
On the petition of heirs of Christian
Sahi for an order on Michael Eicholtz
requiring payment of $4,000 claimed to
be due as balance on the purchase
money of the Sahli farm, sold in 1878 70
Ira Zeigler for $11 000 the Court filed
an opinion dismihsing the petition at
the cost of Sahli. the evidence being
that Zoigler, from whom Eicholtz had
bought, had paid the $4,000 by deciding
to Mrs. Sahli 20 acres of land which
| her children still own