The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-03-30
COURT NEWS

assault and battery. He will be SEN
fenced Saturday morning. There was
much interest taken in this case as
to the outcome. The court room was
crowded to the doors Judge Fawcett
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and Assistant Prosecutor McCulloch
represented the state.
Delap was a school teacher and was
on trial for the whipping of Florence
Deckerd, one of his pupils, with a
buggy whip.
HUSBAND AND WIFE SUE.
Attorneys Roach and Miller filed
petition in common pleas court Mon
day for Mary Ward, of Alliance,
against the Consolidated Realty Com
pany OF the same place for damages
amounting to $4,000.
She claims the defendant company
owns a lot adjacent to her lot and
have let drain pipes empty near the
house and that from this she has
contracted a disease which she thinks
will make her an invalid the rest Of
her life. Her husband, Edward T..
Ward, also brings action against the
same company for $4,000 for damages.
He claims he has contracted pleurisy,
from the the above cause.
SUIT FOR $1,000.
James A. Davis has commenced suit
for Clyde Davis, minor living in
Alliance, against the city of Alliance
and Freshwater & Son, contractors,
for the amount of $4,000. ,Freshwater
& Son had the contract to pave Sum
nit street in Alliance and mad exca-
waited the street for the purpose OF
setting the curbing but had failed to
place danger signals and the boy fell
into the trench, injuring one of his
knees, which he believes is a perma-
nent injury.
PROBATE COURT DECISION.
In the matter Of the application to
terminate guardianship Of Jonathan
! F. HOLDEN, the probate court finds tnat
the said guardianship ought not be
! terminated or allowed and that said
petition ought to be dismissed. D. F.
Reinhold, attorney for plaintiff in err
| ror.
PROBATE CASES.
Assignment of criminal cases in pro-
bate court, Stark county Ohio:
Tuesday, March 27, 19O6-5Ol, Ohio
! VS.. Maggie Buttermore; 500, Ohio vs..
Mary and Eva Buttermore; 511, Ohio
| VS.. Kate Bell.
Wednesday, March 2S-0hio VS.. San
dy Coppard; Ohio VS.. Samuel Persky;
| Ohio VS.. Jacob Tisch.
COMMISSIONERS MEET.
Commissioners meeting was held on
Monday with Members Burnheimer,
| Hill and Hay present. A number of
| small bills were ordered paid A
| contract was made with the Massillon
| Iron & Steel Co., to furnish all cast
iron culverts that may be needed in
1906,
COMMON PLEAS COURT.
Intervening petition Of George H.
| Clark, as trustee in bankruptcy of the
! Miller Co., bankrupt The said trus-
| tee says that he has beem informed
and believes that Harvey Miller own
ed substantially all the shares of the
| Miller Co. and that on or about the
18th day of May, 1905, he withdrew
! from the funds of the Miller Co. the
| sum of $23,049.57, said sum being the
! sum paid by him for real estate and
personal property and that on said
! date the said Harvey II. Miller con-
Veyed said real estate and transferred
| said personal property to the defend
ant, the Miller Farms Company, a
! corporation incorporated under the
| laws of the state of Ohio for the pre-
! tended consideration of $4,000, but
| said trustee says he is informed and
believes and charges the fact to be
| that the said the Miller Farms Com
| pany paid no consideration whatever
| therefor, and said trustee says by rea-
| son of the foregoing, sal. zeal estate
and personal property in equity should
be decreed to be the property of the said
Miller Company and be subject to sale
| for the payment of its debts and it
| is said that on or about May &C. 1905,
| 1t is believed he withdrew from the
| funds of~the Miller Company $6,0S0 85,
| said sum being the amount he paid
| for lot rs in Canton, and that On said
date Harvey H. Miller conveyed said
real estate to Morris w. Miller, for
the pretended consideration of SIS, 600,
and said trustee says he believes no
| consideration was paid whatever
| therefor. The said trustee says he
believes that at the time these trans
actions were made, the Miller Com
pany was insolvent and 1t was the in
tent and purpose of Harvey II, Miller
to hinder, delay and defraud the ered-
itors of the Miller Company.
Shields and Pomerene, attorneys for
George IL. Clark, trustee.