The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-09-22

an unusually short one. No criminal
cases are to be tried, the parties in
volved having plead guilty or the cases
put over until the next term, while
many of the civil cases have gone over.
Corunna, Sept. 18.-No criminal
cases will be tried at the September
term of circuit court which opened
Monday morning. The following
cases were taken up and disposed of
Monday:
People VS.. Mark Higgins, bas-
tardy, discontinued.
People VS.. Leigh Christian, as
sault and battery, put over term be-
cause Of illness of complaining wit
ness, James e. Dingwall.
People VS.. Don Smith, uttering a
forgery, defendant, pleaded guilty.
Sentence later.
People VS.. Adam Dennis, violation
local option law. Defendant plead
cd guilty and will be sentence later
People VS.. Frank Reid, violation
local option law. Defendant pleaded
not guilty and the case was put over
the term.
People VS.. Jacob Joniezek, viola
ton local option law. Defendant
pleaded guilty. Sentence later.
People VS.. Patrick Cavanaugh,
violation local option law. Defend
ant pleaded not guilty. Case put over
term. Cavanaugh is now confined
in the county Jail, having been un-
able to secure bail.
Corunna, Sept. 15-The law cases
on the court calendar were disposed
Cf by Judge Miner Monday as fol-
lows:
The following were continued to
the next term of court: Jefferson d.
Leland and Fred Brown VS.. Edward
and Lemuel Johnson; the garnish-
ment case of the First Commercial
and Savings bank of Durand VS..
Mamie Crawford; Flora Shaffer VS..
the City of Owosso; the appeal case
of Edward Lemon, deceased, Chas.
N. Lemon, from the probate court;
the appeal case from the justice
court of Hugh Crane VS.. Bert Word
en-; Alexander G. Crane, highway
commissioner VS.. c. ]. Snyder, tres
rass on the case.
The assumpsit case of Robert G..
Steel VS.. Beatty Calkins and Elmer
Augsburg was passed to the next
term of court on account of the ill
ness of Mr.. Calkins.
The case of Samuel H. Thompson,
administrator of the estate of Robt.
Thompson, deceased, VS.. Chas Tap
house, which is an appeal case, has
been settled out of court; as has been
announced previous to this time the
probate court appeal case of Ed F..
Kay, claimant, has been settled.
The following cases were disposed
of OH account of the default of the
defendants to present themselves;
Nettie d. Colby ct al VS.. Chas. Hem
ingway ct al, assumpsit; Continental
Cereal company VS.. Standard Pure
Food company, assumpsit; NJ Jones
VS.. J. II. West and j. A. Robertson,
co-partners doing business as the
Corunna Mfg. Co. attachment.
The following have given security
for the costs of their cases: Fred
Darling VS.. Henry P. Haff, trespass;
John r. Francis, administrators of
the estate of Mary E. Francis, de-
ceased, VS.. Geo. E. Bliss, trespass on
the case; Perry Grubaugh VS.. Geo.
Detwiler, assumpsit.
The case of the Cable Company, a
corporation, VS.. Orville Ming, will
not be ready before Thursday.
A case has been filed in the cir
cult court by w. S. Mckenzie and
Tod Kincaid VS.. Rose Call and En-
ma Connolly. 1t appears that on tho
Goth of Sept. 1908, the Daniel Bush
property in the third ward of the
city OF Corunna belonged to the
plaintiffs in the case. They were de-
sirous of selling the land and the two
parties named as defendants traded
them some land in the city of Detroit
which after the sale was made prov
ed to be mortgaged for its entire
value. The case now arises for the
purpose of setting aside the mort
cages.
The property involved in this city
Is one of the best houses and lots
here and is worth the entire $4,000
which the plaintiffs set its price at
The property has been for years
under some law suits and has been
empty for the past few years.
Two divorces cases were disposed
Of by Judge Miner Monday after
noon. They were the cases of Flos-