Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-01-29
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW srITs.


on note.
u. Rainey VS. Theodore Steinecl
/ and John H. Kline, bill in equity &c
compel the defendants to carry out an
! agreement by which he was to convey
! them 105 acres in Connoquenessing twp.
J for $500, of which $4,000 was to be cash
and the balance a lot in Mt. Oliver boro.
Pittsburg.
Cora Ida Marshall vs. John Marshall,
! divorce for desertion. This was suit
entered by Attorneys Blackstone and
Jackson of New Castle.
TRIAL LIST.
The case of D. H. Wuller VS. c. J..
| Wuller to determine the lunacy Of the
former was continued, Saturday, on ac-
count of Dr. Booth, witness for the
defence. being unable to attend.
The cases of Wickenhagen, Deimling
and Kelly VS. the Davis Lead Co. were
settled.
The case of DR.. A Holman for use of
A. n. Cranmer VS. Armenia TebaY,
brought to collect Il note, on which Te-
bay, with Cranmer as endorser, secur-
red $50 from DR.. Holman, resulted in a
verdict for the deft.
The damage case of Salvatore Cavallo
VS. the Wahlville Coal Co will be- tried
Friday.
The case of Lewis Hsffner of Butler,
admir- of Kate Haffner, his deceased
wife, VS. LOUISA Doerr, her mother, TO
collect on a note given by Mrs Doerr
to her daughter in payment of a legacy,
resulted in a verdict of $2G52 for Hail
ner.
The panel was exhausted and the fol-
lowing talesmen were called by Sheriff
Gibson on the Rummel case:-B. +.
Frantz. John Mcmillan, J. NJ. Dunn, Nj.
l.. Starr and Mill Mahood.
The case of Samuel L. Stevenson,
admir- of w NJ Stevenson, decd, OF
Cherry twp vt Samuel L. Grier, to col
lect on note for which Grier showed
a receipt, resulted in verdict for the
deft.
The case of Daniel Adams VS. S. G.
Purvis e Co. was settled.
The suit of w. C. Laderer OF Evans
City VS. John X. Lee and Marinda g.
Lee of Middlesex twp, assumpsit to
COll6CU OA d uClC lOI siO ElNCA W N-~
defendants in payment for buggy re-
suited in verdict for the defts.. be-
cause one was minor and the other
married woman when the note was
signed.
The damage suit of John H. Negley
VS. p. b. q L. Z. r. r. was continued
till next term.
Mrs. Mary a. Bauman, widow of
Francis j. Bauman who lived near Sax
onburg, received verdict of $191. 665,
against jefferson twp. and Supervisors
Frank Barr and Adam Fisher, on ac-
count of the death of her husband,
which was claimed to have resulted
from broken hip and other injuries
sustained by Bauman Feb 21, 1902 by
being thrown from a boiler he was
hauling, which upset because OF a snow
drift on one side and rut on the other.
The suit was brought for $4,000.
The suit of A. W. Root VS. Mrs. Ellen
r. Hopkins, to determine whether she
was liable on mortgage given for
debt contracted by her husband, result
ed in verdict of $3.50 for Root.
The case of Edwin Meeder, assignee
of W A. Wilkens VS. E. Goehring is on
trial.
The case of Mrs. NJ. J. Maxwell, now
Bickel and her children J. L. and
Ralph Maxwell VS. Concord tip. and
Supervisors Perry Black, Harrison
Brown and Cumberland was taken up
in Court Monday. Yesterday afternoon
verdict was rendered for the
dfts. The suit was in trespass for
damages to the plfs. farm, short dis
tance north of Middletown.
The suit of Peter and John Rummell
VS. Dean Campbell for 1892 claimed as a
balance due them on $1,000 barn they
built for Campbell in Oakland twp, re-
suited in verdict of $310 for the plfs.
Campbell claimed that the roof, paint
ing, timbers and construction of the
barn was defective and for this reason
refused payment.
In the case of James A. Hartzell VS.
T. W. Phillips, assumpsit to recover
rental on lease which the deft. claim
ed was dead. the Court directed a YER
dict to be entered for the deft.
The case of Mrs L. C. Parker VS.
BovairdSey fang Mfg. Co. was settled.
NOTES.
A mortgage from the Butler Passenger
Ry. Co. to the Guaranty S. d. 81 Z. Co.
| for $500, 900 has been recorded.
In the case of Com. VS. Daniel Rodgers
| desertion, John Rodgers, deft's surety,
petitioned and was allowed to pay $500.
the full amount of the bond to Geo. L,
Robinson, attorney, for the mainten-
ance of d. RI dgers' children.
Col. Lynch was found guilty of high
treason at London, last Friday, and
sentenced to death. In delivering SEN
tence Justice Wills said the crime of
high treason was happily so rare that it
seemed to be almost an anachronism.
No civilized community had yet failed
| to punish severly detection from loyal
| ty, whether in the way of open warfare
or secret intrigue. In the darkest hours
of his country fortune, when engaged
in deadly struggle, Lynch Joined the
ranks of its foes and shed the blood of
his fellow-subiects fighting for their
country, and sought to dethrone Great
Britain from her place among the
nations.
| Daniel Benin, of Evans City,wa com
| lulIUtu W jail 1uuISQdy AOIHluB On
| charges of assault and battery and
| threatening the life of his wife, Hannah
Behm, and other members of his family.
| The commitment was Issued by Squire
|. N. Graham of Evans City.
On Thursday last, after giving hear
| ing, Esq Keck held J. E. Stoney and
wife, and j. E. Bridges, all colored, to
account for the robbery of the Jacobs
house, on West Penn ST., month ago.
Another negro, named Thompson, was
the chief witness against them. On
Friday night the sacque, silverware,
gloves, etc, taken from the Jacobs
house, were left on the porch.
In the equity suit of John Young vs.
r. w. Young, Judge Miller handed
down an opinion Monday stating that
Young had good marketable title tc
his farm, 10 acres in Butler twp, that
the deed rendered was good and suffici
ent, and that judgment should be enter
ed in favor of Young and against Hervey
for the full amount of the purchase
money, $4,000, with interest less $50
paid at the execution of the option.
| J. II. Wilson, Esq, Dr. Harry Wilson
and Barnard Evans have been appoint
| Su /" SOAu AuhiAS.'LOAi AZ AUnaN9 Oii NolollH'
Heberling of Portersville
Emily Seton was yesterday declared
lunatic, with lucid intervals, by si1
jurors drawn in Court TO inquire.
A motion for a new trial was made
yesterday by the plf. IN the Bauma n
Jefferson twp. case.
A mortgage from the Oil Well Supply
Co. to the Union Trust Co. of Pittsbure
| ronnr1a1 H-ae tardov