The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-12-23
CIRCUIT COURT.


Verdicts awarded In Suits For
Damages.
MURDER TRIAL BEFORE COURT.
The Court on Thursday of last week
took up the case of Nesbitt VS.. Cecil
Paper Company. Warburton & War
burton for plaintiff; w. S. and r. B.
Evans for defendants. The action was
for $2o,ooo damages, brought by William
II. Nesbitt for personal injuries, sustained
on August IL last, when plaintiffs team
of mules were scared by bales of paper
stock that had fallen from defendants
wagon and had been left lying in the road,
near the Moore house, opposite Turner's
woods, near Rising Sun. The plaintiff
and his son were both thrown out. His
son caught the mules and drove the team
home. Mr.. Nesbitt was treated by DR..
Rowland, and claimed that he was
seriously and possibly permanently in
jured. suffering chiefly from muscular
trouble.
The case was given the jury after
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verdict of 81, 900 damages was returned In
favor of Mr.. Nesbitt.
The Grand Jury was discharged Thurs
day afternoon, after making the follow
ing report: Examined six constables and
80 witnesses. found ten true bills and dis
missed four cases.. There are Ia white
males, white females, 2scolored males
and seven colored females in the Insane
Asylum. In the Aims House, IS white
males, white females, ID colored males
and colored female. In the jail a white
males. ID colored males and I colOred
boy. Conditions in all these institutions
were satisfactory. and the inmates COM
fortably provided for. The Grand Jury
recommended that the water closets in the
jail yard be connected with lhe town
sewer, the prisoners doing the work, that
the cells be replastered and the walls
painted. They also urge narrow steps In
front of the Court House yard be replaced
with broad ones of concrete, with ccn-
crete coping on the walls and guard rails;
that the wall be closed and dead or dying
trees be removed.
The Grand Jury found the following In
dictments Selling liquor. George Will
liams, colored, William Thompson,
colored, Linwood Ruley, colored, Joseph
Wilmer. colored, James Jeter. colored.
Harry Wilson. Dominic Del Corto and
James Gale q cases); murder. Eugene
Reed, colored.
The suit of Armour VS.. Wilson, grow
| ing out of an. automobile accident In
Rising Sun on the evening of July 4th
last, was taken up on Saturday.
Pencador. high bred young horse
driven by Hugh Armour. of Greenhurst.
and an automobile owned and driven Sby
Charles " Wilson, of Avondale, wefs
in collision on the pike just south Of the,
railroad station. The accident was
caused, apparently, by the automobile
crossing from the left-hand side of the
road to the right, in order to take break
smoothly. The driver of the horse, fear
ing collision pulled to the side Of the
road just as the machine crossed, and an
accident was the result. Armour claimed
$3.50 damages and placed an attachment
on the automobile, pending settlement.
The machine has since been in storage at
the garage of Duyckinck, Sterrett & Co,
at the cost of one dollar day. A verdict
was returned by the jury on Tuesday in
favor of Armour for 5000 damages.
James Gale. of Baltimore. purser on
the steamer Kitty knight, plying between
who was indicted by the grand jury for .
violation of the Local Option law. pleaded
guilty and was fined $Ioo and costs by the
Court on Tuesday.
The Collins Supply Company of Phila-
delphia VS.. the Felt Paper Company (Lee
Moore and William T. West) of Rowland
vile, was next tried before the Court.
The suit was for the value of a Yingling
sha kinU 0rafe sunn1ied hv Tohn A. Coll
Inns. of Philadelphia, for the furnace
under one of the boilers of defendant. at
its mill at Rowlandville. installed on thirty
days trail, on the representation that It
would save coal consumption and increase
the volume of steam. The CRATE had ASK
square feet of surface and at $5 per square
foot cost $I42.5o. 1t was installedin Sep
tember, 1909, and sixty days later Mr..
Moore complained that it did not give
satisfaction and had to be worked as were
the stationary CRATES as clinkers clogged
it and it could not be shaken. Collins
machinist claimed to have remedied the
trouble but it went on until toward May
last, when the CRATE was discarded, being
now worth its value as scrap, about $5.
On Wednesday morning the Court gave
Judgment for the plaintiff for $r7o. allow
ing certain expenses incurred by the
defendant.
Eugene Reed, colored, was placed on
trial Wednesday for the murder of Alfred
engaged in crap game at Sandy Bottom,
stabbed Wilson, resulting in the latter's
death in two days.
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