Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-02-02
LEGAL NEWS.
NEW SUITS.

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be due for suits and clothing sold and
delivered TO the deft- in Butler.
The Sullivan Machinery Co. of II
linois VS. Evans City Coal Co. assump
sit for $109 30 claimed to be due from
defts. for hose. connections, throttles
and other mining necessities sold 10
them
| James II. Thompson VS. Southern Oil
| Co, assumpsit for $3.50 claimed TO be
due for rental for gas from five wells on
| his farm south of Hooker. The farm
was leased in 1901 TO Edward Barnhart
who assigned to the Southern. The
! sum of $50 per year was to be paid for
each well producing gas which was
marketed of the place
TRIAL LIST,
The case of L. C. Wick VS. Thomas
| Harrison to recover for foundation
stone furnished for a house built by
HARRISON, resulted in a verdict of s94
for Wick. HARRISON stated he had al
ready paid the contractor who built the
house.
Mrs Elizabeth Piper Vending re-
| covered a verdict of $500 in her suit
against the estate of the late George
Reiber. Mrs. Piper weighs about 250
pounds and conducted restaurant in
| the Reiber block on z. jefferson ST,
living above the restaurant In Sept,
| 1903, she broke through the floor of a
closet at the rear of her rooms and fell
to the first floor receiving severe in
| juries. She sued for $4,000
The case of John Patton VS. Thomas
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The case of Philip Winter of Eidenau
VS. John A Richey to recover for 12O
| sacks of -four which Winter claims he
shipped and which Richey claims he
never received. was tried yesterday.
Emanuel Hutchison, Richey's colored
driver, swore Winter gave him couple
of drinks and offered him $15 to leave
town before he was called to testify.
Winter admitted drinking with Hutchi-
son and B. & 0. detective. The jury
returned verdict S109 for plf.
The case of the Bell Telephone Co. VS.
L. S. Hoon of Renfrew to recover tele-
phone rentals. went on trial yesterday
afternoon.
The damage suit of w. G. Fleming rs
| Concord twp, resulted iu verdict for
| the defendant The testimony showed
| that last winter, Fleming tried to move
! a sawmiil boiler and engine from one
Christy farm to another Christy farm,
and that in going down an icy piece of
| road the wagon on which the boiler
| was loaded began to slide and finally
| upset doing damage to the amount of
| 5000 or $500. Fleming claimed the ac-
cident was due to a broken culvert at
the head Of the decline, but the Court
charged contributory negligence on his
part because he knew the road was icy
and the culvert broken before he
ventured on it with the boiler.
The ejectment suit of the heirs of At
| torney William A. Forquer, decd, va
Martha NJ. Forquer, his widow, for
property on Main ST. was discontinued
| by the plffs. and new proceedings were
commenced in the form of an appeal
from the probate of his will. The ap
peal was filed Monday.
The suit OF Mary r. Johnston and
Ella NJ. Marion vs Theodore Shearer
and wife and John Jones, to recover the
value of line fence between their
properties near n. Mexican and Fulton
SITS, which was torn down by the defts
who rebuilt it, was tried Tuesday. The
| jury returned verdict for the defts-
NOTES.
George J. Bechtel has filed me-
chanics lien for $3.50 against Younkins
| e. Thompson for plastering their build
| ing on S. Main st. The defts, claim the
work was defective.
Levi M. Wise was appointed Com
missioner in the lunacy proceeding on
| Ta DIaiofa1 nf pt,flar trvr
w. B. Purvis, DIR. G. D. Thomas and
James o. Campbell were appointed
commission in lunacy on Mrs. Sarah Ii.
Stewart. aged 70 years, of Donegal twp.
Charles Stottsberry of Butler, has
brought suit in the Washington county
| courts against Thomas Beading, for
| $50, 900 damages for the alleged aliena-
| ton of his wife's affections
Eugene e Wick has led his first aud
partial account as administrator Of the
estate of his father, K. X. Wick Of
Harrisville. The personal property ac-
| counted for was $168. 074 90, credits
claimed SO 1877 90, amount for distribu-
ton $16f, ,337 10, to be divided among
| the accountant and his four sisters.
The County Commissioners are drill
ling a water well on the Jail lot John
Schaffner is doing it.
Craig Smith. guardian OF a minor
child of Emma Richie, decd, was
granted leave to sell real estate in Buff
falo twp.
Quincy A. Redic was appointed con-
stable of Parker twp, vice j. Ii. Wally,
| decd
Jos. III. Valley has been authorized
| to sell real estate of Jacob Sanderson,
weak minded, OF whom he is guardian
/ w d. Rider, through his attorney,
has petitioned Judge Thomas at Mead
vile, to set aside the sale of the Hotel
Rider. made December II at Cambridge
Springs. The property was purchased
at public sale. ordered by the Court, by
7. NJ Nagle, of Erie. The price paid
was S117, 600. and the property was sold
clear of liens. There are liens that
amount to hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars, and Mr.. Rider wants the new sale
to include these liens.
In the Mercer Co. Court. the other
day, a pair of elopers, one of whom was
Mrs. Olive McCracken, wife of K. r.
McCracken Of SlipperYrock twp, and
the other Enoch Jones OF Northumber
land Co., plead guilty to the charges
made against them.
| a modern blue e-beard-bigamist and
poisoner-of Chicago, who is also a
hypnotist, was shielded by women
in Chicago. The police could not find
him His Goth wife lives in Philadelphia
She recognized him bya newspaper cut,
the other day. and gave the police an
accurate description Of him.
His name is said to be Johann Hoch,
Land he is alleged to have married and
abandoned 25 women in the last 10 years
A woman in New York who keeps
roomere was struck by the resemblance
Of one OF her roomers and the picture
and description Of the bigamist and no
titled the police of her suspicious. De
tectives went to the house and placed
him under arrest.
Clintonville's two cases, those against
J. r. Craig, and Harry Pick. which oc-
cupied the time of the court OF Venango
: county, for more than two days, came
to An end last Thursday. The jury In
the Craig case returned verdict of not
guilty but pay the costs. Pick was
found guilty but the mercy OF the court
was recommended
The jury in the Craig case did not a.
gree until o'clock that morning, their
deliberations taking up good share OF
The night The costs In the case will