The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-22
S1O,OOO SUIT BROUGHT
 AGAINST THE CITY Charles E. Gorham Says New Haven Has Broken Her
 Agreement. MANY PROBATE MATTERS Charles F. Root Estate Shrunk by Several Mining In
 vestments.
MANY PROBATE MATTERS

Claiming that the water flowing from tho springdale farms sewage filtration beds flows off into a little brook that runs through his farm and pollutes 1t, Charles E. Gorham, farmer on Win tergreen avenue, Westville, has brought suit against the city of New Haven for $1O,O00 damages. Notices of the suit was served upon City Clerk Edward A, Street by Deputy Sheriff Peter J. DeJon It is returnable to the superior court on the first Tues day in September. Newton, Church & Hewitt represent Gorhanl.
 This is the third suit of the kind that Gorham has brought against the city, In the two previous suits he got | one for $6OO damages and | the other for $2,3OO The, filtration plant was built in 1899 as a result of complaints that the sewage was ruin ing the water in the brook. Engineers and scientists at the time claimed that ] after it passed through the purifying | process could do no harm, but Cor ham says he has refused to let his cows drink out of the brook and the loss of the water supply has caused him to sell off part of the herd with the result that his milk business suf- fered seriously Gorham also claims that the brook is contaminated from pig pens on the springside grounds.
 Gorham's ground for his third suit is the city's failure to abate the trou- ble, which continues, he says to cause him heavy losses in his milk business.
 With two claimants after stock and $45 in cash it holds in the name of Ed ward T. Pollard of London, Eng, the Ludingtoh company which manufac- tured cigaretteN boxes in New Haven and which has wound up its affairs has brought suit against Pollard and Willie M. Freeman of Richmond, Va. It wants the court to decide to whom it shall give the stock and cash. Free man claims that Pollard pledged all his stock in the Ludlngton company as well as what he owned in another concern that was doing business in Lcndon on notes which Freeman claims to hold against Pollard
 The Ludington company was threat ened with suits by both men to get the stock and cash and for It's own protection brought the action
 Deputy Sheriff Philip Goodhart made service upon the two defendants. The final accounting was made this morning before Judge studley in the estate of Sarah c. Newberry, late of | Cleveland. A. J. Newberry and Spen- cer B. Newherry are the executors 1 There are six heirs to the estate, and the property is divided among them Tn 1 equal parts after the deduction of the 1 expenses of administration The six re- eeive $l,6S5,69 each. They'sare Arthur 1 St. j.. Newberry, Spencer B. Newberry, William K. Newberry Robert T. New ! berry. The share of Kieth G is given to Arthur St. J., as trustee. That of w. E. goes to his heirs, Roger and l Doris.
 l An inventory of the estate of the l late Charles F, Root filed in the pro bate court yesterday morning by the | appraisers, William G. Mitchell and i Theodore H. Macdonald shows an es- | tate greatly shrunk from Investments | in western mining stock. Monterey Mining Co.,, shares to the number Of BETH, par value s1 share, are inven- toried at nothing What was originally l $l,6SS,7O worth of Monterey demand shares Is also inventorled as worth l less.
 MT, Root also lost considerable mon- ey in the DeForest Wireless company holding fifty shares of the preferred stock which are appraised at nothing The New Haven Trust company is exc cutor
 The estate is appraised at $49, ,7O5. AS and consists almost entirely of notes.
 Application was made to the probate court yesterday by William H. Dobbs, son of the late Andrew B. Dobbs of the
 Monarch laundry who died recently, asking that he be appointed adminis- trator of the estate of his father. Search for a will being reported as unfruitful Mir. Dobbs' appointment was granted by the court The estate is valued at about $15,OOO, of which $10,- 757 is in real estate
 The inventory of the estate of Mary Campbell Bishop, the late widow Of
 John w, Bishop, who at one time was
 one of the foremost men of this city and after whom Bishops Gate is
 named, was filed in the probate court,
 yesterday. It shows an estate of $29,-
 674.74, of which $29, 25O is her share on
 the estate of her late husband. The
 remainder is made up of cash and in
 small equity in real estate in West
 Haven. Ex-Judge Livingston W.
 Cleaveland and Attorney James H.
 Wheeler were the appraisers.
 On application of Mrs. Ella M
 Hesse, widow of the late Ernest F, j Hesse, the former druggist, Mir.
 Hesse's will was admitted to probate
 yesterday and Mrs. Hesse appointed
 executrix. By the document all MT
 Hesse's property, personal and real, is
 given to Mrs. Hesse without restric-
 ton, Otto c. Marx and Alto P. Bau-
 man were appointed appraisers.
 City Court
 Judge Carl Foster of the Bridgeport city court occupied the bench in the
 local city court yesterday morning
 JudFe Mathewson has gone to the