Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-12-09
COUNTY COURT.
Considerable Business Transact
ed and Number of Cases
DISPOSED of,

The December term of the Superior
Court for Addison county opened at the
court house in Middlebury at 1915
O'Clock on Tuesday last, with the fol-
lowing officers: Hon. Zed S. Stanton
of Roxbury, chief Judge; Hon. Charles
S. Dana of New Haven and Hon. Henry
E. Day of Ripton, assistant judges;
Rufus Wainwright, ESQ.,, of Middle
bury, clerk; Frank w. Tuttle of Ver-
gennes, States attorney; Olin A. Smith
of Addison, sheriff; Charles E. Pinney
of Middlebury, treasurer; Miss Ella M.
Ballou of Rutland, stenographer, and
Olin A. Smith, probation officer. Sher-
iff Smith has reappointed all of the old
deputies who served during the past
two years and who in their length of
service since their original appoint
ments rank in the following order:
William H. Cobb of Middlebury, Thad
M. Chapman of Middebury, John H.
Beane of Lincoln, S. N. Hemenway of
Granville, E. H. Palmer of Monkton,
Henry P. Fisher of Vergennes, Fred E.
Rowley of New Haven, George S. Farr
of Bristol. w. H. Birchard of Shore
ham, T. V. Hooker of Goshen, Stephen
E. Noonan of Ferrisburgh, Harry E.
Sanford of Cornwall, Frank M. Hill of
Starksboro, Noble j. Sanford of Mid
dlebury, and Allen C. Plue of Orwell.
Mr.. Cobb, the dean of the deputies, has
held the Office for SO years.
The number of attorneys from abroad
present at the opening was not so large
as usual, owing chiefly to the attend
ance of many at the opening of courts
in other counties who will appear here
later to attend to their cases. Those
here were A. l.. Sherman of Burling
ton, Thomas w. Moloney of Rutland,
Charles F. Kingsley of Salisbury, w.
W. Rider. Murray Bourne and Jasper
S. Page of Bristol and Frank L. Fish
and Frank w. Tuttle of Vergennes.
After prayer had been offered by
Rev. Richard B. Esten, pastor of the
Memorial Baptist church of Middle
bury, Sheriff Smith made the usual
proclamation for the convening of the
County court and court of chancery.
The remainder of the forenoon session
was occupied with going over the vari-
Gus dockets and calendars.
The jury calendar was first called
and the following cases thereon were
ma ynH fn, ft.to I
Chase, trespass; C. L. LeBoeuf, execu-
tor of Mary P. LeBoeuf's estate, VS..
w. H. and Mary E. Norton, note and
assumpsit American Agricultural
Chemical company VS.. Lewis N. Kel-
logg, general assumpsit; Ferdinand M.
Crosby VS.. The Vermont Accident In
surance company, appellant, special
assumpsit; In re will of Mary E. Well
ington Henry C. Roscoe, appellant and
contestant, in which later motion for
continuance was filed for the contest
ant; and Ernest Goss, appellant, VS..
Edward A. Burt, trespass, in which
case new trial was ordered by the Su-
preme court. These cases were enter
ed, settled and discontinued: Mabel
Collamer VS.. Sam Taft, appellant, gen
eral assumpsit, and Ben H. Collamer,
by his guardian, VS.. Sam Taft, appel
liant. The cases of Charles Marston VS..
John Madigan, trespass, Henry Merritt
VS.. Edward A. Burt, trespass, and
Isaac Shapiro VS.. Moses Vincent, appel
liant, general assumpsit, were taken
from the jury calender and set for the
court. The Marston-M Madigan case will
doubtless be dismissed later, as the de-
fendant is dead, having been killed by
railroad train in Proctor a few weeks
ago and the plaintiff is in the custody
of the State at Rutland. The case of