St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-12-21
WORK OF COUNTY COURT.
Verdict for Lee in Trepass Case
Several Cases are Settled.


The arguments to the jury in the
case of B. H. Laducer VS.. Lorenzo
Gray, the piano replevin case, were
made Monday and the jury returned
a verdict for the paintiff to recover
the possession of the piano and re-
cover $500 damages.
The case now on trial is the trover
action of H. F. Griswold VS.. B.. r.
Wentworth. David e. Porter appears
for the plaintiff and Simonds &
Sear1es for the defendant.
F. S. Laird was in town Monday
to confer with Guy w. Hill in re-
gard to insurance cases in which Mr..
Hill is counsel for the plaintiff and
Mr.. Laird for the defendant COM
panies. A settlement was finally
agreed upon and the cases were en-
tered settled and discontinued"
Several other cases were disposed
of by settlement and diScontinuance,
among them the case of Frank Bish-
op apt, VS.. Simeon Dunn. Judg-
ment was allowed the plaintiff in the
case of George B. Langmaid VS.. Es-
tate of Willard Langmaid in the sum
of $4,000 without costs and the
cause was certified back to the pro-
bate court.
The highway accident case which
was brought by Annie Wentworth
against the town of Burke for in
juries alleged to have been received
through the means of defective Gull
vert and the approach thereto was
entered settled and discontinued
Howe & Hovey and Simonds &
Searles appeared for the plaintiff
and David e. Porter and Guy w.
Hill for the defendant town. 1t is
understood that the town paid over
$500 to settle the suit.
The bastardy case of Flora G.
Woodward VS.. Henry w. Clark has
been settled and discontinued
States Attorney Simonds who has
been away for the last few days re-
turned last Friday and will take up
the criminal docket from time to
time as the court has opportunity
to attend to it. During the interim
of some civil business Monday three
arrangements were made. Joseph
Guyer .of this place was arraigned
for selling liquor without a license.
He pleaded guilty of one offence and
was sentenced TO the equity Jail for
term of not less than three months
and not more than four and to pay
fine of $500. Sentence was sus-
pended as to the fine and the re-
spondent will be placed under the
care of the probation officer for
term of two years beginning at the
expiry of the Jail sentence.
In the case of the State VS.. Andra
GiuduH who was arrested for the
ARRAY at Blue Mountain in Ryegate
a short time since, upon the recon-
mendation of the States Attorney
he was fined $50 and costs of prose-
cution. Harland B. Howe appeared
for the respondent and entered
plea of guilty in his behalf. Giuduli
paid his fine.
A very pitiful case was brought
against one Philip Cecil, a young lad
IA years Of age. He was charged
with selling lottery tickets. He
pleaded guilty to the charge and up
on some inquiry by Judge Butler it
was thought best inasmuch as theboy
has not a proper environment in
the Vermont Industrial school at YER
gennes for the remainder of his min
GRITTY which will expire March 20,
1917.
Court will probably take a recess
the last of the week until the 4th of
January. 1t looks now as if the
final adjournment would not come
until late in January.
After over a weeks trial of the
Follensby & Peck the jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff to recovr
$1O50 damages and costs. This YER
dict was reached in the. light of the
jury finding affirmatively that the
defendants had cut timber on land
not covered by the deed. There are
a large number of exceptions in the
case and the cause will doubtless
pass to the supreme court.
H.
of the general assumpsit and note
brought by the Woodsville Guaranty
Savings Bank VS.. B. M. Kicker, J. M.
Blanchard & TT. This case was en-
tered discontinued as to Blanchard.
Fred S. Wright of Woodsville and
E. S. Smith of Wells River appeared
for the plaintiff Bank and Elisha
May and Edwin Cook for the defend
ant Kicker.