The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-27
JANUARY COURT.


Eta Miller v. Elma Bridges ct al.
Masters report of sale approved.
Order of sale of real estate OF Frank
g. Wheeler, deceased, approved.
Bond of the Commonwealth Title In
surance and Trust Company, Trustee of
the estate of Samuel B. Dalrymple, de-
ceased, FLED and approved.
Charles Avery, ]. G. Birdsall and E.
W. Gammell appointed reviewers Of pub
lie road in South Canaan township.
Order made giving authority to tax
payers of Scott township to vote on the
question of changing method of taxa
ton for road purposes.
Com. v. Otto Brown. Selling liquor
without license. s. r. Murray, prose-
cutor. District Attorney permitted to
enter mol. pros. on payment of costs by
defendant on indictment found in 1908.
Defendant pleaded guilty to another
charge and was sentenced to undergo
three months Imprisonment in the coun-
ty Jail, and pay fine of $500 and the
costs.
r. w. Mills, A. w. Schlosser and c. A.
Daniels appointed constables to wait on
court.
Cases were continued as follows:
Samuel R. Gregory v. John Perkins.
Josephine Oleszefski v. William F.
Taylor. Trespass.
w. F. Avery v. Charles F. Netzow
Manufacturing Co.
s. Fred. Marshall v. Township of
Texas. Trespass.
James Mullen v. Township of Texas.
Trespass.
Sophia A. Mittan V. Frank J. Hunkele.
Trespass.
The case of the Paupack Electric Co.
v. James F. Drake, an action in assump-
sit based on defendants refusal to take
five shares of the capital stock of the
plaintiff corporation, for which he had
subscribed, was settled out of court by
defendants acceptance of the stock.
Martha Frisch, executrix of Oscar
Frisch, v. Globe and Rutgers Fire In
surance Company of the City of New
York. Assumpsit. This case grew out
of the burning of the Frisch bakery in
the Independent building, September
"a, 1907, which Mrs. Frisch was con.
ducting as the widow of Oscar Frisch
who had died in the preceding March
There was an insurance of $500 on the
furniture, tools and fixtures of the bakery
and 500 on the stock and supplies
which the defendant company refused
to pay on the ground that immediate
notice of the fire was not given them
that the proof of loss was defective, and
that the policy was void on account o.
the change of ownership. Plaintiff
claim was for ST. 500, with interest from
Dec. IS, 1907. The case was settled by
a verdict by agreement in favor of Mrs
Frisch for ST., ,125, to be entered without
costs.
The following order was made by the
Court in the matter of the estate OF
Elizabeth Sears, deceased, by agreement
made between the Scranton Trust Com
pany, administrator of the estate OF
Charles H. Sears, and Mrs. Lydia Ben
nett:
"Now, Jan. IS, 1909, upon considera-
ton of the within agreement the court
approves the same, and the Scranton
Trust Co., administrator of the estate OF
Charles H. Sears, deceased, is hereby
substituted as respondent in re-eXception
to account of Charles H. Sears, execu-
tor, and the said Scranton Trust Co.,
administrator d. b. n. C. t. a. of Eliza
beth Sears, is also substituted as ac-
countant of estate of Elizabeth Sears,
deceased, and further the Scranton Trust
Co. is hereby appointed trustee under
the will of Elizabeth Sears, deceased, oi
the trust fund of $25, 900 for the benefit
of Lydia Bennett, as provided in written
agreement, and said trustee is required
to give its own bond in the sum of $25,
600 conditioned for the faithful perform.
ance of the duties of said trust, and the
final decree heretofore entered by this
court in the matter of the exception!
aforesaid, is so far vacated as to con
form to the matters agreed to in andNby
the written agreement.
Com. V. William Smale. Larceny ant
receiving stolen goods. George Stegne
prosecutor. The case was the result o
wagon and sewing machine deal. Yer
dict, guilty.
A. Amanda Dunn Rockwell V. w. C
Rockwell. Divorce. Petition made t.
amend libel from "menSa ct thOrO" to di
vorce absolute.
The accounts of administrators anC
executors, and appraisements to widow
were confirmed by the court as adver
tised.
Edwin Baltz, an eX-councilman anC
retired business man of Stroudsburg
: who lived for time in Honesdale anC
Hawley, died at his home on Tuesday
of last week aged ~ years, from typhoid