The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-19


 back to them and were living as
 happily as could be.
 , The judge also mentioned the special law in this county against shooting fish. He spoke of the clear waters of the streams. which
 made 1t hard to keep the streams stocked with fish if this law was . not enforced.
 Just before the noon hour the petit jury was organized ard the elyll docket taken up in the after noon.
 J. E. Bates Must Pay for Horse.
 Monday afternoon, after getting the grand jury out of the way and at it's work, Judge Bowling turned hls attention to the trial of cases. While there were none of great im- portance, 1t was moi as hard to get a case to try as is usual on the opening day of the term.
 The cases tried were Steve Ferns ys. Frank Hidde, which re- suited in a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of S2i.92, and E. l.. Ohn- sett vs. $. P. Lance, which resulted in verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of S6.36. This was followed by the suit of Fred Daniels, the livery man, against John Bates, who drives the wagon for the Mena Laundry Company. This suit held consider able interest. It is for the value of a horse which the plaintiff claims was driven to death by MT. Bates last September. Mir. Batees was fined in justice court Si00 for over driving the horse, and in the civil suit for damages MT. Daniels was given judgment against him in the amount of $i00 for the value of the animal. Both cases were appealed and the civil action was the one which went to trial late Monday | and continued through a greater part of Tuesday morning.
 Bates drove team from Daniels | barn Sunday, September 10, to a | point four miles west of Cove, a | distance of about g or 23 miles. On | the way back one of the horses l dropped dead in the harness near Potter eight miles out from Mena. | A number of witnesses for the | plaintiff testified to having seen MT. Bates driving the team at an unus- ual speed, but Bates claimed 1t | was a high-strung, unruly animal and he could not control it. There was some evidence to support this | claim. The jury returned ver- diet awarding the plaintiff $40.
 Following the Daniels vs. Bates case, a suit of F. l.. Jackson vs. W. l.. Batson and A. l.. Cheney was tried. It came from a misunder- standing regarding settlement oyer some timber and the use of a saw mill set and resulted in. ver- diet for the plaintiff in the sum of $72S5.
 Railroad Wants Suit Transferred.
 The lack of interest which has been shown so far this week, while Circuit court worked away on lot of little cases appealed from the justice courts, disappeared Wednes- day morning.
 It was Railroad Day"
 As a result there were a number of prominent attorneys from out of town in court and damage suits of large size were under discussion.
 The case of Miss Susie Armstrong | who is suing the Kansas City | Southern Railway Company and Engineer J. c. Hartzler for S40,00O for personal injuries sustained in a wreck of the Traveller last summer, was called. A motion to transfer 1t to the Federal court consumed much of the time of the court.
 After dinner the case was again taken up and Judge Bowling held that the service on Engineer Hartz- Ter was insufficient and therefore there was only the railroad company named as defendant, and motion | to transfer to the Federal court was permissible.
 Quite an interesting case was tried Tuesday afternoon in which the Bernard Manufacturing Com pany was suing the Jackson Drug and Furniture Company on an ai- legged contract to buy piano ot ithem which was to 5Gc es:ssc.. G:s away under a guarantee that the deal would increase the drug companys business a certain per cent on ae- count of the extra amount of adver- Using the Bernard company was to have done The piano company failed to make any arrangement for advertising and other features de- veloped that caused Mir. Jackson to lturn down the proposition. Suit followed and on trial the jury gave a verdict iii favor of MT. Jack son.
 The suit of pr. c. c. Gunnels vs. IDr. W. c. Vandiyer regarding the failure of Dr. yandiver to transfer an insurance policy on a drug stock he had traded to Dr. Uunneis, was tried Wednesday and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiif Tn the sum of $29.
 In the suit of C. E. Mallan vs. Ridgway & Greene, the appeal was dismissed and judgment given against 0. P. Ridgway and J. A. lLewey, who was surety on his ap- peal bond, in the sum of S75.
 The cases of J. l.. Gates vs. Ada