The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-19
COUNTY COURT BUSINESS.
Slow Moving Continued Session in
County Clerk Office.

The continued session of the WIND
ham county court opened Monday at'
ternoon in the county clerk s office be
fore Judge W. II. Taylor of Hardwick.
The session was scheduled to convene
at . O clock but owing to delay in
trains Judge Taylor did not arrive un-
til later and the session began at about
3 o'clock. The remainder of the at-
ternoon was spent in assigning the
eases for trial and preparing for the
work of Tuesday.
The case Of Newton Bachelor
against Alvin White was tried Tues.
day, seeking to recover on a bill in
chancery certain real estate which
Bachelor claimed to own but which
claim was not allowed by the probate
court and an injunction was granted
forbidding the administrator TO pay
the proceeds of the estate TO him. The
defendant moved for a dissolution of
the injunction but Judge Taylor sus,
tanned the injunction. F. L. Barber
appeared for the plaintiff and +. d. b.
Stowe for the defendant.
The case of W. II. Haigh against E.
W. Gibson was to have been tried
Wednesday morning but when the court
convened for the purpose announce.
ment was made that the case had
been settled by agreement that Judge
Gibson pay the plaintiff 500 and the
plaintiff settle his own costs. About
one year ago, Judge Gibson's dog Dick
and James L. Martin s dog Jack were
travelling in company when the dog
Jack and dog belonging to Mr..
Haigh got into fight. Mr.. Haigh at
tempted to separate the combatants
when he was bitten as he alleged by
Mr. Gibson s dog. In the fray he lost
longitudinal section of his neither
raiment and some cuticle. He sued for
$4,000 damages alleging that owing to
the position and nature of the bite he
had been unable to pursue his occupa'
ton Of a tailor
The ease of Ephraim and Viona
Fuller against f. Il. Knapp, all of
Townshend, was tried Wednesday
The plaintiffs sold the timber on a lot
to H. w. Ashford reserving for them
selves the tops of the trees to be used
as frewood. They sold the farm last
spring to Knapp but no reservation
was made, in the deed, of the tops or
timber, but Knapp testified that while
he knew that the timber was reserved,
the tops belonged to him. Recently
Knapp began cutting the timber and
the Fullers secured an injunction re
straining him. The petition of the
Fullers sought to have the deed re-
formed.
Yesterday the case of Baxter Bur
rows and Fred z. Allen against T. E.
Stockwell was tried. The suit was
brought in 1906 to recover damages
for timber which the defendant had
cut on property which the plaintiffs
claimed to own. The plaintiffs claimed
that the defendant had cut about $500
worth of timber while the defendant
claimed that the timber cut did not
amount to over $40. When the argu-
ments were all given the entire num-
Der of those interested took automo-
biles and went to the timber lot over
which the row was aud Judge Taylor
looked over the lot. The party returned
in the evening.
This morning the court went to New
fame to consider the taking of bail in
the DIR. Ryder case and to try Frank
Inman, a colored man from Tennessee
who was arrested at Bellows Falls and
bound over to the September term of
the court on the charge of grand lar
ceny and was committed to Jail in de.
fault of bonds. He was to have been
at the September term of the court but
wishes to be tried now and will be ac-
commodated.
The petition of divorce of Carrie G
McVeigh against Thomas McVeigh on
the grounds of desertion will be tried
this week, also the Blakeslee Holton
case.
1t is expected that a formal order of
continuance will be issued in the
DunleavyFenton case which was con,
tinued at the instance of the defend
ant and over the protest of the plain
tiff at the April term at Newfane.