Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11
BUSY TIME ron DISTRICT COURT
Number of Important Gases on the
Docket.

Number of Important Gases on the
Docket.
The September term OF district court the
opening OF which was postponed from last
Tuesday, will be convened today by Judge
N. w. Macy of Harlan. The term prom
Uses to be busy one, as the docket is an
Afsnsually heavy one. There are a number
~ criminal cases left over from last term
and big grist of indictments is expected
to be returned by the grand Jury, there
being many cases for It's consideration.
The grand jury, which will be impanelled
the first thing this morning, is composed Of
the following: "@
Peter Ref, sr Council Bluffs; w NJ.
Perkins. Boveland; ]. w. Miller, Nicola; f.
dcrwood a. pSIo caiSp Council Buffs; SsGS w. r. F.
Sapp. Council Bluffs; J. T. Jones, Nicola
\ A. y. Smith, Honey Creek; Peter LANCER,
Minden; A. L. Ingram. Treynori Jergen
8sfIeesch, Treynor
The petit jury is summoned for Monday,
September q. These are the members Of
the petit Jury;
John Clark, Silver Creek: Hans c. Jensen,
Hazel Dell. Theodore Dingman, Garner; II.
s. Alexander, Hardin; c. @. Rees. Norwalk
Boomer; Bo91TS :oI W II RSfier, P' Mlnden; HpBard
fapWcrth, iapS" he Crescent: W. s. clay. Garner;
Frank Handlen. Hazel Dell: J. S. SHELTON,
Kssn KGSsrorq keg HePes cpesk DaSid peVo L. X
bergman r, r Montfort, II. 4; HI9ugh,
William Mathiasona Mat Barten, M r.
Schmidt and c. A. Rose, all OF Kane.
The September term docket contains a
number OF important suits, among the list
being the $4,000 damage case brought by
Mrs. Kari Karrer against the Olderog
family. whom she charges with causing the
downfall of her husband who Is now serv-
ing sentence in the penitentiary for
robbing the Treynor bank Another big
suit on the docket is that of Benjamin
Douglass against Lougee g. Lougee, in
which the plaintiff seeks to recover $4,000,
alleging that he was induced to sell the
land he received as part OF his father $
estate for great deal less than the market
value through misrepresentation of the
defendants Iougee e. Lnugee have a
counter claim for $1,000 There is also
the $4,000 damage suit of A. w. Ellsworth
against several citizens Of McClelland.
whom he alleges conspired to secure his
arrest and trial on a charge of attempting
to burn down his hotel building In that
town His trial resulted in his acquittal.
The city is defendant in several damage
suits four Of which are for personal in
4 juries. The most important of the suits is
that brought by the Walker Manufacturing
Company, which asks $4,000 for the loss
OF it's plant by fire, alleging that but for
a broken fire hydrant the blaze could have
been extinguished at It's inception with
nominal loss. The city is also made party
defendant in the suit brought by the Mon
arch Manufacturing company against the
street railway company for the flooding OF
It's plant in fp01. The plaintiff company
asks $. 900 damages.
The principal personal injury damage suit
=, in which the city is defendant is that
{ brought by j. s. williams. who asks $1,000
for injuries received by driving against a
manhole which projected above the surface
OF the roadway and caused him to be
thrown out Of a sleigh and severely injured