The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-06
CIVIL SUPERIOR SHORT .CALEN-
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CIVIL SUPERIOR SHORT ,CALEN-
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 This is short calendar day in the civil superior court, and there is a grist of business that must be handled by Judge William S. Case.
 A motion will be made for default for failure to comply with the order of the court in the case of John F. Callahan vs. Robert Callahan. This suit involves claim for $1,000 for services rendered in the saloon business of the defendant in Crown street.
 A motion will be argued by Attorney Pickett, on behalf of George L. Peck, who is suing F'arnham Fox, son of Simeon F. Fox, for failure to file an answer, and also to make the com plaint more specific. The suit is for $5,000, and grows out of an auto acci- dent.
 M. c. Dingwall and Indiana Nourse wilL ask the court for judgment against the Consolidated road, that road hav- ing failed to file an answer to suits against it by those named. The suits grew out of the smoke nuisance The plaintiffs own property in Lamberton street. The New York road has in- vcked the statute of limitations as a defense.
 A motion will be made to confirm the appointment of Temporary Receiver Burton, who is acting for the Ansonia Smelling company.
 Mrs. Glosson Hall, of Dixwell avenue, will ask her husband for funds with which to defend an action of divorce he has instituted against her.
 Lewisohn Brothers. of New York, ask for judgment against the stockholders of the St. Louis Zine Mining company There is $70.OO0 at issue. Local men were interested in it.
 A large number of the creditors of the New England Dairy company will appear to oppose the confirmation of the temporary receiver, Charles G. Nor ris. The case came up last week but was continued by the court. Some of the creditors want to put the firm in involuntary bankruptcy. CRIMINAL SUPERIOR SENTENCES
 Failure to satisfy the jury in the criminal superior court how Mexican dollar, once the property of William Johnson, came into his possession, Richard K. Sullivan, of Wallingford, was convicted of theft and sentenced to eight months in jail. Sullivan stole $5 from Johnson on May 4, and the Mexican coin was part of the money taken.He was found with it in his pos- session.
 James F. Donohue, of Wallingford, charged with burglarizing the saloon of Michael Nolan in that town on the night of August 12, was found guilty in the criminal superior court yesterday noon and was sentenced to not less than two nor more than three years in prison.
 Lee Dupie and William Harney, both of this city, pleaded guilty to burglary and were sentenced to one year in the county jail.
 DIVORCE CASES NUMBER SIX.
 Judge William S. Case is to consider six divorce cases in the superior court to-day. Among them are the follow ing:
 Lilly M. Johnson, nee Willis, of this city, vs. Charles Albert Johnson; mar ried March 5, 1893; infideIity; custody of minor child prayed for.
 Mrs. Mary A. Horan, nee Leonard, vs. Maurice Horan; married February 4, 1894; assertion.
 Alice Merritt, nee Newton, vs. Nor man Merritt, of Bridgeport; married December 25, 1899; assertion in August, 1899; custody of minor child prayed for.
 ASSIGNED AS JURY CASE
 The case of N. B. Cushing against Mrs. Irvinea Goddard Bergin, in the civil superior court, this being the liti- gation in which New Jersey man sues her for obtaining money under false pretenses, has been assigned for a jury trial.
 This means that it will not be taken up there until January. There is a possibility that the case will be dis missed.
 NEW YORK LAWYER ARGUES.
 Notices have been sent out from the probate courts to executors and guard ians of estates who have been delin- quent in filing their accounting with the court here. On Wednesday Will liam B. HornbloWer, a distinguished lawyer of New York, who was norn- mated by President Cleveland for jus tice of the United States supreme court, came to this city and argued the right 'of the probate court in this district to call succession tax on the estate of MT. HcrnbloWer's children.
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