Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05
MoNDoU CASE CONTINUED
 IN SUPREME COURT.
Windham County Cases Were Argued
 At Hartford.

The May term of the supreme court of~ errors was opened Tuesday fore- noon at 10 o'clock in the capitol at Hartford. All the justices of the court were present.
 Owing to the illness of Attorney Mi- chael Kenealy, counsel for the defnd- ant, the two cases of Edgar G. Mon dou and William H. Hoxie against the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company were transferred to the term of the court that will be held al New Haven.
 There were three eases, all from Windham county, assigned for Tues day. The first was that of George P. Taylor against the Danielsonville Cot ton company. Searls & Russell for the plaintiff and Donald G. Perkins and H. B. Back for the defendants. The case as stated in the brief of defend- ants counsel is that the defendant is a legal corporation which for many years has been located in Danielson where 1t owned a large mill with ma chinery and carried on the business of manufacturing cloth.
 On April 2s, 1901, the plaintiff owned and controlled all the $300, 1000 capital stock of the defendant repre- sented by 1,750 shares outstanding, and he and other members of his fam ny qudillleQ Dy SlONh pldCeu III L0elT names, constituted all of the stock holders, directors and officers of the defendant corporation, and the plain tiff was its treasurer and general man. ager. Defendants mill machinery stock, raw material and supplies were subject to two mortgages to secure it's outstanding notes on which there was due 5000. On said day the plain tiff sold and transferred to J. F. Coch- ,astr o~1I 1 who were then elected directors and officers of the defendant in place of the plaintiff and members. of his fam fly who resigned, all of the aforesaid capital stock in the defendant com pGny for $9,000 and a written agree- ment by the defendant. made and signed by J. E. Cochrane. it's new treasurer: "To take at a fair market value and pay for in cash to Cthe plaintiff) all the personal property in the way of mill supplies, etc. that are suitable and now at the mil in Danielson. same to be looked over by (defendant's) superintendent at the first opportunity with (plaintifrs) rep resentative."
 This action against the corporation is on this agreement to recover the value of the mill supplies.
 The case of Ferdinand Girard dgdlnSL the GrOSVenOrdale company, the plaintiffs counsel in their brief say that the questions of fact sub mitted to the jury were: T. Whether the defendant was negligent in failing to shut down in time, and in allowing the shaft and broken pulley to run so long that the shaft fell. 2. Whether the plaintiff assumed the risk. 3. Whether the plaintiff was himself guilty of contributory negligence. The defendants mill was very great. with many large rooms on several floors in different buildings and widely separat- ed, and distances were great. from the various rooms to the eueine-room where was controlled the power which operated all the machinery through out the mill
 gro protect it's own valuable prop erty and to secure the safety of it's employees 1t had established a sys- tenn of electric signals, with a box in each room, so that by breaking the glass front Of the box and moving a lever. a signal could be instantly sent to the engine-room and a large gong there sounded"
 The case of Frank R. Jackson ct al against the town of Union was reached in the afternoon