Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-20
District Court.

Judge Qvale adjourned district court
last Friday afternoon until Tuesday
of this week at 10 o'clock a. M The
following cases were disposed of since
our last issue and up to Fridays ad-
journment:
.. +. Sletten ct al vs.. Louis n.
Smith: jury awarded plaintiff a ver-
dict of three dollars and stay of 10
days was entered
Ing. johnson VS.. Willmar Milling
Co.; on trial Thursday afternoon,
evening and Friday morning. Tried
by the court and submitted.
William Gilger VS.. City of Willmar:
to be tried in March by Judge Qvale.
This is case in which the plaintiff
appeals from sewer assessment.
August Peterson VS.. Frank G. Carl
son and Sara G. Carlson: tried by
court and submitted.
Attorney Gilbert appeared with his
client on Friday morning and moved
for a new trial in the case against Nels
T. Nelson, who was convicted on the
charge of selling liquor to a minor
The motion was set for hearing on
Tuesday yesterday at 10 o'clock
In the Peter Freeberg case Attorney
Stanford asked for 80 days stay of
sentence, which was granted. Sen
tence was suspended until the June
term.
A full jury could not be obtained
from the special venire drawn by Cor
oner Frost last Wednesday. for the
second trial of Frank A. Magnuson,
charged with selling liquor to minor
The coroner was instructed to make
another ''draw,' which he did
Wednesday evening, and finally the
trial began Thursday morning with
the following jury in the box:
Asa J. Abbott, w. Gabbert, Peter
o. Sletten, John o. Floren, John NJ.
Olson, Nels A. Elgeraas, Iver j. Berg,
Nels N. Flykt, w. M. Chase, Peter A.
Eklurd, w. J. Phare and Ralph Tel
stad. The two last named were the
only members out of the first jury
drawn who succeeded in remaining in
the box
The Magnuson trial was on all the
morning and went into the hands of
the jury at ll:30. After deliberating
until Friday afternoon Judge Qvale
finally ordered the jury to report,
when Foreman Abbott announced that
no agreement could be reached. 1t
was just 3:20 when the tired jurymen
filed into the court room. With a
second disagreement in this case, the
case was continued to the June term.
The above virtually cleaned up the
calendar for the present term.
At the adjourned session yesterday
Nels 2. Nelson's case was up aga;n
before the court. The defendants at
torney withdrew his motion for a new
trial and Judge Qvale sentenced Nell
son to pay fine of $50 and costs
$ll .0O-and that he be committed to
the county Jail for term of 30 days.
In the matter of the dissolution of
, the Raymond Real Estate Co., cor
poration, testimony was taken regard
ing the condition of affairs in the con-
Germ. The court ordered a levy of an
assessment of 100 per cent against the
capital stock, which will still bea loss
of at least 25 per cent to the creditors
There are eleven stockholders in all,
owning total of ninety shares,
amounting to $4,000. H. j. Dale is
the president of the corporation and
G. E. Fouts the secretary. j. S. Rob-
bins and DR.. Rains are interested to
the amount of six shares each and the
Willmar stockholders were repre-
sented by Samuel Porter as their at
torney. c.. NJ. Mattson of Renville
appeared as the attorney for the re-
ceiver, H. J. Dale.
Court adjourned sine die after an
, hours session, all business for the
January term being disposed of.
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