Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-10-08
LEGAL. NEH y.
NEW SUITS.

NEW SUITS.
Mrs. Minerva Wallace, adm'x of w
W. Wallace, decd, VS. State Mutual
Life Assurance Co. of Worcester.
Mass, assumpsit for $1,000. claimed on
life insurance policy held by her hus-
band. Wallace lived at Karns City,
the policy was taken out in April 1900
and was incontestable after two years.
In March 1902 Wallace had his head
blown off by a shotgun The insurance
Co. claims it was case of suicide and
contests payment.
W. A. Slaugenhopt VS. j. s. Byers,
petition of piff for rule on Byers TO
bring action in ejectment for acres in
Fairview twp title to which is disputed.
A statement has been filed by the
plaintiffs in the case of Robert Piper,
by his Committee in lunacy, B. Thomp
son, and Mrs. Elizabeth Piper VS. Geo.
Reiber, which sets forth that Mrs Pi
per is tenant of Mr. Reiber. conduct
ing restaurant on E. Jefferson st, and
living over Ny er's grocery store, next
door, that on Sept. 9th last, she entered
closet located on the porch at the
rear of her room, that the floor was
rotten and Insecure, and gave away be-
meath her precipitating her to the
ground 30 feet below, and causing
many injuries for which she asks $40.
600 damages, Mrs. Piper weighs about
$50 pounds.
Henry G.. Donelly, admir- D. B. n.
and G. T. A. of Thomas Donelly. decd
and Mrs Catherine McCandless VS. Tur-
ner Coal, Coke and Mining Co. and John
A. Turner. assumpsit for 5000. The
plaintiffs. in 1894, leased 225 acres in
Venango and Washington twps to the
defendants at 5 cents per ton royalty.
and they allege the defendants have vi
olated the lease contract by not maxi
ing proper return of the royalties due,
by not allowing the plaintiffs to exam
| ing the books, accounts, etc. of the
mines, and by not properly pushing OPP
erations in the mines, but held them
back and gave preference to adjoining
lands
W. B. Purvis has been appointed aud
| itor in the estate of Eliza Martincourt.
The equity cases of the Independent
Gas Co. VS. the Butler Water Co, and
ci tizens of Gallery vs. the Torpedo Co.
! were heard Saturday.
Albert B. McCandless was granted
leave to make administrators sale of the |
real estate of Elizabeth J. McCandless, |
decd.
VIM. A Glasgow has petitioned for
ga tisfaction of an old mortgage on prop |
erty in Valencia.
Fl. 81. Goucher was appointed guar
dian of Frank and Helen Mcbride, min |
or children of DIR. G. F. Mcbride of |
Youngstown.
E. E. Smith Of Dewitt, Clinton coun- |
ty. Iowa, petitioned for partition of the |
real estate of Samuel s. Campbell of /
Washington twp.
Chas. Gibson has bought from w. II.
and John NJ Snyder the Commercial |
Hotel at Saxonburg, and the license has
been transferred.
W. Henry Wilson has been appointed
guardian of Paul H., Carrie E. and
Walter s. Uber, minor children of Mar
garet Uber, decd, of Slipperyrock.
The equity suit of Butler Borough vs
Ada Martin was heard before Judge |
Thomas Of Meadville, Friday. Ex
Judge Norman Martin of New Castle
appeared for Miss Martin The Boro
asked for an injunction permanently
restraining the defendant from con-
structing stone retaining wall along
the north line of her Mercer st. proper
ty. Since the construction of the new
bridge on Mercer st. this north line has
been in the channel of Sullivan run, the
location of the bridge having caused the
run to cut its way several feet south
ward on Miss Martins land, and her
idea in building the wall was to pre-
F.. Oh -, ov,1
what the run had cut away.
On Tuesday of last week Joe Bodner,
a boss at East Butler and Tot Texas, a
young Slavish girl, were married. On
Friday she went 70 Clerk of Courts
Graham and told him that she had
learned Bodner had wife and family
in Poland. The District Attorney was
informed and Bodners arrest for biga-
my followed
John H. FIGHT was appointed consta-
BILE Of Adams twp.
Frank Egan was brought over from
Chicora, Friday morning, to serve u
sentence passed by Squire Huselton of
thirty days to Jail or until relased by
due process of law" A short time after
Egan paid the costs and a fine of $40
and was released. 1t appears that he
and some others were placed in the Chi
cora lookup for fighting The building
was set on fire, presumably by some of
the prisoners hoping to make their es
cape in the confusion. The Millers
town fire laddies turned on two streams
of water, put out the fire and then soak
ed the prisoners thoroughly.
Friday Judge Thomas filed opinions
refusing the plaintiffs motion for new
trial in the case of VIM. Rape vs w. Fl. |
RAIDER, about lease and well in For /
ward twp, and dismissed the exceptions !
to the auditors report and sustaining(
the auditor in the estate of j. T. Pur-t
Vance decd. of Petersville.
He also filed an opinion in the case of |
Matthew Bowers vs. L. 81. Brown and |
J. p Sutton. refusing the PLAINTIFFS mo-
ton for a new trial. The men had a |
lease of Bowers farm, in the Speechley
sand on which they had drilled several
wells in the npper sands before the
Speechley sand was discovered. On the |
discovery of the Speechley sand the |
lease became very valuable, and the de- |
PENDANTS, who it was claimed, had been |
on the point of throwing it up held on.
and continued to pump the old wells
which were nearly exhausted.
Bowers sued in ejectment to recover
possession, under clause in the lease
to the effect that it should not continue
in force after the oil or gas ceased to be
produced in paying quantities. At the
trial it was shown that there was q
daily profit of about three cents in the
operation of the wells, and on this fact
hinged the verdict in favor of the de-
PENDANTS
Michael Murrin has been appointed
guardian of Della S. Burk.
The Superior Court has affirmed the
| conviction Of the Philadelphia school
| directors, who were found guilty of ex-
| tortion in connection with the appoint
ment Of school teachers.
| A decision Of the Supreme Court of
New Hampshire in favor Of the defend
ant in suit brought against Rev. Ir
wing c. Tomlinson, reader in the Chris
tian Science church by Mrs. Jennie
Speed is taken as establishing the right
of Christian Science doctors to practice
in that State. The complainants held
that Tomlinson's treatment of a case of
appendicitis by Christian Science meth
ed was malpractice. The lower court
decided against the complainants and
the Supreme court overruled exceptions
to that finding.
Raymond Pacoysky formerly of the
Standard Exchange. was released from
Jail on $4,000 bail, Tuesday.
l Michaa1 Rossa q laodar in Rutlar'S