The Somerset reporter., 1907-10-10
Somerset S. J. Court.
September Term 1907.


HrsFY PrAeopY, J Presiding: g.. o.,
THos ] YoUa County Attorney.
CLYDE H. SMITH. shella
DEPu11ES: J. A Goodrich and David Levi,
skowhegan; Abel W. Rowell, solon; J. d Ring.
Cambridge; (. L. Perkins, Madison; Z. Atwood
New Portland.
The civil case of Marshall VS. SAT-
ford, in hearing when the REPORTER
went to press last week, proved to be
the last jury trial of the term. The
suit was brought by Columbus Mar
shall of No. Anson to recover the
amount paid by him for some stand
ing ash timber which he had bought
of the defendant. The defendant
claimed that the timber was to be re-
moved within one year and, that as
the plaintiff failed to do this, he had
sold the timber to other parties. This
limit of time during which the timber
might be cut, to one year, was denied
by the plaintiff, and this was virtually
the only point at issue between the
parties. The jury returned verdict
for the plaintiff in the sum of S130.17.
Friday afternoon F. M. Cotton, a
Fairfield druggist, was in court and
furnished sureties for his appearance
at the December term in the sum of
$500. An indictment as maintaining
liquor nuisance was returned against
him last month by the grand jury and
owing to the continuance of the
criminal docket his trial could not be
heard at the present term.
Other respondents who appeared in
court Friday afternoon and gave
bonds for their future appearance
were William Howard, proprietor of
the Howard House, and his clerk,
Joseph d. Mcdonald. Indictments
against both were returned by the
September Grand Jury.
Twenty two divorces were decreed
at this term of court. Those not re-
ported in our last issue are as follows:
Henry B. Bush from Grace M. Bush
for adultery. Custody of minor chill
dren given to the libelant.
Moses S. Cleveland from Edith
Cleveland for cruel and abusive treat
ment and adultery.
Betsey E. Corson from Amos Corson
for cruel and abusive treatment. Gus
tody of children given to libelant.
Jerome Hilton from Grace Hilton
for adultery. Custody of children
given to libelant.
Alphonso J. Pomlow from Sarah
Pomlow for cruel and abusive treat
ment.
William E. Magoon from Blanche
A. Magoon for desertion.
Blaze j. Adams from Frank d.
Adams for gross and confirmed habits
of intoxication.
A total of $S34.4s was collected in
fines and costs during the term. This
is the largest amount for some time,
though much below the records of
many previous years which have ag-
gregated in some instances, thous-
ands of dollars for single term. The
parties paying the fines for the term
just adjourned are Henry Washburn,
search and seizure, 1928; Cephas NJ.
Hilton, single sale, S61.48; Leon l..
Perkins, common seller, $40; Wood
bury w. Russell, search and seizure,
$120; Warren Tuttle, nuisance, S315;
Ira w. Gushing, single sale, $75.
Final adjournment was reached
shortly after 4 O'Clock, Friday after
noon. The term occupied 16 working
days. There were fewer jury trials
than usual, nine civil suits and three
criminal cases having been thus dis
posed of. The usual number of cases
were settled out of court and entered
''neither party" on the clerks docket.
Justice Henry G.. Peabody left for
his home in Portland Saturday and on
Tuesday morning opened the October
term of the Supreme Judicial Court
in that city, for Cumberland county,
to which he had previously been as
signed.