Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-07-15
COUNTY COURT.
June Term Has About Finished
It's Work.

The case of M. w. Calvin against
Olny Lamorder and Jerry Brassaw, all
of East Middlebury, which occupied the
attention of the Court during the middle
of last week went to the jury last Fri
day noon. The jury after being out
for short time, brought in verdict for
the plaintiff to recover $3.50 and costs.
This was an action brought by said Gal
vim against the firm of Brassaw & La
Morder to recover for labor done in way
of cutting logs and drawing them to the
mill of said firm last season. The cut
ting was admitted by defendants but
they claiming that the plaintiff by writ
ten contract agreed to get in clump of
spruce on the Henshaw lot and that as
the plaintiff got in less than half of this
clump they were obliged to shut down
their mill during the entire summer.
The plaintiff contended that he did
agree to get in said clump of spruce
but that he had cut all the lumber in
what was the Henshaw clump and that
this consisted of only about $1,000 and
that having done this he kept on work
under verbal contract to get in as
much of the spruce remaining on other
lands uncut as he could.
Fallowing this case came the case of
the town of Bristol against Jesse Farr
of Lincoln. This was an action brought
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Farr charging him with transporting
a pauper" to said town sometime last
January. Messers Bourne and Dono-
way appeared for the Plaintiff and Mr..
Fish defended Mr.. Farr. The evidence
showed that last January, one LaGoss,
then living in Lincoln and having sup
ported himself during the entire six
months of his stay there, asked the de-
fendant for a ride to Bristol, that the
defendant did give said LaGoss this ride
and that LaGoss represented that he
was going to Bristol for the purpose Of
getting work and Mr.. Farr said that he
thought that even though said pauper is
a cripple, he could have obtained work
in Bristol had he tried to do so. LaGoss
testified that he never applied for work
in the plaintiff town but that soon after
reaching there he applied to the over
seer of the poor, for help and that since
that time he had been supported by the
town. The case went to the jury late
Friday afternoon, who after being out
but few minutes returned verdict in
favor of the defendant.
The case of Chas. LaBoeuf against
the firm of Gorton & LaBoeuf, all of
Vergennes, next was disposed of by the
court. This was an action brought by
said plaintiff against the defendants to
recover balance claimed to be due for
building materials furnished to the de-
PENDANTS over five years ago. The
plaintiffs claim as presented was con-
ceded by defendants and they proceed
ed to show through bill in offset that
they had overpaid the account. Can
celed checks were introduced in evil
dence and it was shown that each of
these had been credited to the
plaintnff'S bank account. This case
went to the jury Tuesday morning,
and after being out for short time
they brought in verdict for the de-
fendant to recover $115. This being
the last case on the docket for the
jury, that body of men was discharged
from further service on this panel, af
ter having been thanked by the Court
for the faithful manner in which they
have attended to Court duties during
the present term.
Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Sarah Hal
lock of Starksboro, who has for the
past ten days been confined to the Ad-
Olson County Jail, under an information
charging adultery, was brought into
Court and bail having been fixed at
$500 she was released on her own recog-
nizance to appear next term.
Court will doubtless finish the present
term this week and an adjournment
till next December will probably be