The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-02
BUSY DAYS
WITH COURTS
Trials Of Causes Proceeding
with Expedition n---Alirnony
Includes Children.
NINETEEN INDICTMENTS FOUND

NINETEEN INDICTMENTS FOUND
In court Monday morning Judge
Mills suspended sentence on Reuben
Goodwin and committed him to the
care of the probation officer for two
years. g
John Wilson and Frank Balone,
charged with larceny, retracted their
pleas of not guilty and plead guilty.
Harry McLane and John Holly retract-
ed their pleas of not guilty and plead
non yult.
Judge Mills has set Friday as sem
tence day.
The suit started in the Morris coun-
ty circuit court by the Sisters Of Char
(ity of st. Elizabeth's college against
Robert P. Lister, of Newark, and his
\ former wife, Mrs. Emma X. Colell, for
the board and maintenance of their
children, Helen L. and Portia B. Lis
ter, at the convent, was settled We'd
nesday afternoon. After hearing the
evidence in the case Judge Black. be-
fore whom the suit was tried ordered
the jury to return verdict of $3.50. 80
against Mrs. Colell and no cause for
action against Lister. The amount
involved is for the care of the children
at the convent from September 1St,
1905, to December lst, 1906, and inter-
est.
The amount of the bill was not dis
puted but Mrs. Colell asserted that
Lister should pay the bill and he in
sisted that as he was paying his wife
500 per week and she also had the in
terest of $4,000 and later of $4,000
that she should pay for the support of
the children.
After Lister and his wife had been
divorced and after Mrs. Lister had
married again she placed the children
in the convent.
3 The suit of Miss Grace B. Conklin
against Edward Kayhart, as executor
III iss AConklin's s grandfather's estate,
for services rendered by Miss Conklin
to her grandfather was stopped sud-
denly Thursday morning and a non
suit granted by Judge Black. Charles
A. Rathbun, counsel for the defend
ant, caught one of the PLAINTIFFS wit
nesses being signaled to while on the
stand and objected asking for a non
suit which was granted.
| The jury in the case of the Liondale
bleach, Dye & Print works, of Rocka-
way, VS. Wilmer A. Baldwin, trading
las j. N. Goddard & Sons, of New York
eity, brought in a verdict of S2,17l for
the plaintiff Wednesday, which is the
amount claimed, $2,03S, with interest.
The suit was brought to recover the
amount of a bill of goods sold the de-
PENDANTS and including 27O,000 yards
lof coat sleeve Innings, of which 132, 900
yards had been paid for.
! The defendants claimed that the
| goods were not first class, that the
stripes were printed irregularly and
the goods were not as wide as stipu-
lated in the agreement. 1t was as
serted that the Innings had been rem
dered useless by the plaintiffs process
of finishing.
To give the jurors an exact idea of
the condition of the stuff ten huge
cases filed with the goods and weigh
ing four tons were taken into the
courtroom.
Judge Black on Thursday afternoon
gave verdict of 81, ,120.42 for the
plaintiff in the suit of the Rockaway
Rolling Mill company against the Cen
Itral Railroad of New Jersey for two
carloads of material belonging to the
plaintiffs that were DESTROYED bv fire.