The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-05-31
COURT CONVENES
FOR MAY TERM
Large Calendar to be disposed
Of. Criminal Calendar
is Small,
ON-C0NTESTED CASES HEARD
Several Gases Dismissed. South
Haven Side Walk Case Has
Been Tried.

The circuit court for the county of
Van Buren convened for the May term
last Monday at one o'clock. There is a
large calendar to be disposed of during
this term although the criminal calendar
is short. The jury will not be in attend
ance until next Monday The present
week has been devoted TO the DISPOSE
ton of the various motions and for the
hearing of non-coutested cases. The
business disposed of during the week to
date is as follows.
The case of the people VS.. John f.
Thompson for violation of the local op-
tion law was continued over the term by
consent of the respective parties.
A motion to dismiss was made in the
case of the people vs.. Joshua A. Colby
on charge of impersoating a u S. Off
GER; taken under advisement by the
court.
In the cases of the people vs.. Walter
B. Reynolds and Chas. r. Van Alstyne
for alleged violation of the local option
law orders to quash the information we're
entered.
In the case of Peter H. Terp VS.. Paw
Paw Grape Juice Co., an order for Sc
curity for costs to be filed on or before
June Sd, was entered.
The following cases were dismissed:
Addie Baker VS.. Roy Hinckley. Frank
L. Hoyt VS.. First National and Savings
Banks of Paw Paw garnishment. Peter
| II. Terp VS.. First National and Savings
Banks of Paw Paw; garnishment.
Order for security for costs to be filed
on or before June 10Th was entered in
the case of George E. Grant VS.. Thamas
/ Adamsou.
An order to set aside, default was en-
tered in the case of Lincoln Pollock VS..
Mary High.
Sentence was suspended in the case of
the people VS.. Lucius A. Baker and
Charles Gibson. These were two young
men from Lawton who plead guilty at
the last term of court to the charge of
burglary. a that time the court sus-
pended sentence and the boys we're or
dered to report to the court on the first
day of the May term, which they did
The court complimented them on their
department during the period of suspen-
sion and stated that he was much pleas
ed at the reports he had received of them
from other parties. They were again
ordered to report to the court on the
/ first day of next October term.
DEGREES were granted in the following
cases; Henry b. Morgan vs. Lila r.
( Cottrell; foreclosure George w. Cain
vs.. James a. Eaton ct al; foreclosure.
Charles j. Monroe VS.. John Staubro ct
al. bill to quiet title. Frank Hudson
vs.. Orpha Hudson custody of child
given to mother. This was a case in
which petition was filed by Frank Hud-
son asking to have the original decree
modified and the custody of the child
given to him. The court decided to leave
the original decree as entered, which
gave the custody of the child to the
mother
Several days of the week were taken
in the trial of the Injunction suit of
Wm. @. Triece and wife VS. the city of
South Haven. This suit arose over the
building of a sidewalk The city claim
ed the sidewalk as built by Triece was
not built according to tho city require
ments Injunction was brought to re-
strain the city from moving the walk or
molesting it in any way