Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-29
CASES TO BE HEARD
 IN SUPREME COURT
Matters of Much Importance in This End of the State-Session Opens on Tuesday.

Tuesday. When the supreme court of errors comes in here on Tuesday, April 30, l for the April term. it will have before it the longest docket for this court | ever compiled, a total of 19 cases, of which six are continued and thirteen are new. Continued Cases.
 First on the continued list is the | case of Marion, admr.. vs. the Connec- | ticut company, in which the court di | rected judgment for the defendant on | trial of the case in the superior court, l the plaintiff appealing from that decis | ion, alleging the court to be in error | in issuing such direction to the jury. Frederick W. Marion. administrator | of the estate of Alpha E. Burdick, de- l ceased, of Montville. sued the Con l necticut company for S5,00O damages, | the plaintiff alleging that Burdick was | put off one of the cars of the defend ant company at Hempsteads on the night of April 14, 1909. and thrown 1 into the highway near the track so | that he was struck by a car coming 1 in the opposite direction. He died of
 a fractured skull soon afterwards, be- i ing in a helpless condition, it is ad- mitted, through sickness or intoxica-
 tion when he was put off the car.
 In the case of Thomas McCaffrey vs. Groton & Stonington Street Railway Co.,, the defendant takes appeal from l the decision of Judge Greene, who de- nied their motion to set aside the yer 1 dict and for a new trial after the plaintiff had secured a verdict for $2,580.60, after trial of the case, in which McCaffrey sued the company for a bill of 5000 in putting up pole line in November, 1905.
 The case of Giles A. BeckWith vs. l RebecCa COwles ct al. comes up on
 defendants appeal Giles A. Beckwith,
 to whom under the will of Jason E. | BeckWith of Waterford, the Beckwith homestead was bequeathed, brought
 suit against Rebecca Cowles and Nell
 son $. Rogers, alleging that Rebecca
 COwles took advantage of the enfee-
 bled condition of Jason B. Beckwiths S
 mind to induce him to deed to her the BeckWith homestead, and that she gave a mortgage on the homestead to Nelson $. Rogers, without any return
 consideration. Rebecca Cowles took
 care of Jason B. Beckwith up to the
 time of his death in April. 1869. Judg-
 ment in court was given that Rebecca COWles reconvey the homestead to Giles Beckwith, subject to the mort ! l dered to pay to Rogers, and Rebecca l COwles was also to pay Giles Beckwith
 $50. It is to overturn this decision that the appeal is taken.
 The respondents, James Raymond
 Palmer and Carrie A. Palmer of Mont , vile, in the suit brought by the board , of water commissioners of the city of l! Norwich to determine the compensa-
 tion to be allowed the Palmers for
 land taken for the Stony brook reser- vOir, bring an appeal from the decis- ion of Judge Shumway in fixing S4,500
 as the amount, claiming error in the . court in not allowing the motion to
 quash and in not dismissing the peti-
 tion upon the respondents motion.
 Plaintiffs appeal is made in the case 1 of Albert E. Cruthers and others vs. Michael H. Donahoe. The plaintiff, do- 1 ing business under the firm name of Cruthers & Lillibridge, brought suit against the Shetucket WoTsted mills of Baltic for an unpaid balance of $S0401 on a construction contract in 1907. 1 The defendant set up a counter claim of $S50 for an uncompleted gravel roof Judgment for the defendant with costs was given in the common pleas court, which Is now appealed
 : In Giro Benanti Vs. Delaware Insur-
 ance company, the defendant appeals
 from the verdict and judgment which
 gave the plaintiff, a New London gro
 cer, the sum of S985.50 for loss on | stock and fixtures covered by a policy
 of the insurance company. The plain
 tiff claimed fire loss of $1, ,119.41. The
 insurance company alleged fraud in
 presenting false statements and false
 bills by the grocer, and also that he
 was not the sole owner of the prop
 erty.
 New Cases.
 Of the thirteen new cases, two are defendants appeal in William B. Colt vs. Mahtilda von Ellert Sistare and others. and defendants appeal in Thomas Howe vs. George C. Raymond and others.
 Nathan M. Church of Montville , plaintiff, in a suit against Edward Spi- cer of Groton for $1J,000 damages for
 injuries received by MT. Church when struck by a team driven by MT. SpiceI in Groton in 1903. brings appeal from the finding of the superior court for ? the defendant with costs.
 Mantle Menhaden oil S Guano Co. defendants against James V. Luce. ir suit brought by Luce to determine the possession of tract of land ir East Lyme, takes appeal from the court judgment, which gave Luce the ownership of the land in question. Plaintiffs appeal is brought by Well. ington Allen of New London, who sueC the x. r., x. II. x H. R. R. Co. fol
 S1O. GOO damages for injuries received Q by being hit by a tree and knocked s off the car on Memorial day, 1907, or ? the New London turnpike. while he ' us riding on the running board of ar : erou ear. He got a verdict of $3,000
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