The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-04-27
The Supreme Judicial Court.
HON. A. p. wIswELL, ELLSWORTH, PRI

| HON. A. p. wIswELL, ELLSWORTH, PRE-.
SIDING.
In the horse case, W. H. Staples VS.. Al
bert I. Harvey, on trial when The Journal
went to press last week, the jury brought
in verdict for the defendant.
The Juries were dismissed Thursday until
Friday.
Thursday afternoon the grand jury rose
and reported II indictments, IA Of which
were liquor cases. The indictments were
| as follows: w. S. Edminster, two for com.
mon seller, for common nuisance, drink
| ing house and single sale; L. L. Gentner,
common nuisance, common seller and
drinking house; Fred NJ. Staples, drinking
| house, common seller and common nuis-
ance Marco Lavorgna, single sale; Tru-
man G. Trundy, single sale Charles O'COn-
| nell, keeping gambling machine; Geo. II.
Jones, keeping gambling machine; Fred L..
Palmer, Monroe, keeping gambling ma
chine.
The case of Mrs Mabel E. Richards,
admx., VS.. John F. Vickery, Morrill,, for
$4,000 for the death of PLAINTIFFS husband
in defendants mill, was opened Friday
morning before a special jury. The acc-
dent occurred Sept. 90 1904, during severe
| wind storm when the chimney fell, causing
the death of Mr.. Richards The Jury was
sworn in and then left for Morrill, to visit
| the scene of the accident, and the remainder
| of the time up to 2.45 Saturday was taken
| up with the examination of witnesses. The
evidence was all in when the court ad-
Journed Saturday, and was to have gone
| over until Monday at 10 a. m., but was
settled out of court. The entry on the
docket reads: Judgment for the plaintiff
for $500 with no costs" A. S. Littlefield of
Rockland for plaintiff. r. F. and j. r.
DuntOn and VIM. H. Mcclellan for defend
ant.
The case of Willis j. Knowlton of Lib
erty, VS.. the Patrons of the Androscoggin
Fire Insurance Co., was begun. In this
| on his buildings, which were burned to the
ground: The point of the case is whether
the buildings were occupied at the time of
the fire or not The defense claims that
they were not, and the prosecution AYERS
that ta they were. Arthur Ritchie Of this
city is the attorney for the plaintiff and
John A. Morrill, of Auburn for the defense
Owing to change in the statutes relative
to this case, made since the policy was
made out, the case was sent to the Law
Court,
The cases of Norton E. Hollis VS.. Arthur
r, Libby and c. Everett Libby, admrs.,
Edwin c. Swift VS.. same; Mathew Luce,
Jr., VS.. same, were sent to the Law Court
on report. Cornish & Bassett for plaintiff,
Il. W. Rogers and ex-Judge Enoch Foster
for defendants.
Mary E. McAlister, Administrative of
the estate OF Hiram McAllSter OF Burnham,
VS.. Horace burlington & Co. of Waterville
In June, 1899, the plaintiffs husband,
Hiram McAlister, sold to the defendants
COS cords of wood The plaintiff claims the
contract price was $3.50 per cord and the
defendant that it was So per cord. The
defendant paid the plaintiff sl216 in June,
1899, and claims that this paid the bill in
full. This is the third time the case has
been tried to recover the balance claimed to
be due the plaintiff. S. S. Brown for de-
fendant and VIM. H. Mcclellan and G. H. .
Morse for plaintiff. Verdict for plaintiff.
CRIMINAL DOCKET
Three cases of the State VS.. L. L. Gent
ner for single sale have been tried before
juries with verdict ::of not guilty. An
other case against Gentner as a common
seller was on trial when The journal went
to press.
DIVORCES.
The following divorces have been de-
creed:
Mabel f. TiltOn VS.. Frank H. Titon.
Edwiner L. Gray VS.. Perey r. Gray
Dana E. Fletcher VS.. Bertha f. Fletcher.
Rosie Gahagan VS.. William Gahagan.
Harris A. Heal VS.. Victoria Heal.