Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-19
MICHAEL DUNN'S CASE.
Was On Again To-Day Before Judge
 Curtiss in Superior Court.

OurClSS Ill Ouper10r C0urC. The suit of Michael Dunn to have set aside a deed to certain property in Union City which Mrs Margaret Grant as conservator to Mrs Nora Dalton, deceased, sold to one Moul throp for $1,500, notwithstanding that in Dunn's estimation it is 1 worth $25,000 or $30,00O, was still before Judge Cptfss in the superior court to-day.
 Mrs Fanny Coen was one of the in- teresting witnesses examined yester- day. Mrs Dalton was about seventy when she died last summer and foI some two and half years she board ed with Mrs Coen. Mrs Coen kept a saloon but not in her dwelling house and Mrs Dalton was never inside the saloon. Several times, said Mrs Coen, Mrs Dalton told her about the efforts that were made to have a con- servator appointed over her. She in- sisted she was not crazy and that she did not want to leave her home. She told witness that she did not wish to live with Mrs Grant, or Mag Grant, as she called her, and she had no particular liking for Tommy Renahan either. If a conservator was to be appointed over her she preferred to have the Rev Father Sheridan. Jus tice of the Peace Bingham called once or twice to see her about the matter and he told her that she would have to have conservator appointed. He recommended either Mrs Grant or Mir Renahan and she told him she preferred Father Sheridan.
 Mrs Coen testified that she charg- ed Mrs Dalton S12 a month for her board and attendance, and that dur ing the two and half years she was with her Mrs Dalton consumed forty quarts of gin. This gin was ordered by her physician. She has not been paid for that liquor yet. She said Father Sheridan never paid her for it, and so far as she knew never ob- iected to Mrs Dalton using the Iiq- uor. She never sent Father Sheridan bill for it. She did get some mon- ey from him but it was for clothing she gave Mrs Dalton. Furthermore there are two weeks board owed her still. Mrs COen was sure it was two years and five months Mrs Dalton was with her. not one year and five months.
 Fred K. Perry. a we'll known printer in Naugatuck. testified that in his opinion the value of the land in question was about $1O,0O0 last June. This statement seemed to cause some cOmmotion among a eer- tain portion of the witnesses. MT Perry said the price of land is so high in Naugatuck that no one can buy it.
 John Linskey testified that the clay which was considered valuable to the iron foundry is not to be had on the farm now in profitable quanti- ties.
 Thomas H. Benton, ex-judge of probate in Naugatuek. testified that on the first application for the aD- pOintment of a cOnservator for Mrs Dalton, Mrs Grant was not appointed but Father Sheridan was. He did not hear that NIT Dunn wished to be appointed, or that he had removed a quantity of the clay from the land and had not made returns for it. This closed the testimony for the plaintiffs and counsel stated that so far as the companion case. Frances Dunn's sp- peal from probate was concerned the evidence would be the same as in this case
 Judge John NeDonoagh Of the probate court in Nsugztuek testified to the proceedings there relative to Mrs Grant filing her bond and then Amos Culver took the stand His evil dence was to the eEect that the land in question was worth last June when Mrs Dalton died shouf sz.aaa. ItI has frontage he ssiI- ca City HiIII street of z5e. or zT5 feet and TUES hzek clear to JOhnson street HsI considered the land worth f50 snI acre.