The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-21
COURT MATTERS OF THE WEEK

VS.. Bond the case of Mamert Walen-
tynowicz VS.. Minnie Allen and Will
liam Allen. Searle & Salmon, of this
place represented the plaintiff, as
sisted by Attorney Gardiner, of For
est City The defense had no testi-
mony to offer and the case went to
the jury without trial. They took
vote in favor of the defendant. The
action grew out of the transfer of
deed for land in which there was a
mention of fifty and one-fourth
acres, consideration $3.50, and the
same to have been made by verbal
representations before the time of
the delivery that said land contained
fifty and one-foUrths acres Plaintiff
was induced to buy the land. A sur
vey Of the land was found to contain
but twenty-siX acres and the para
mount title of twenty-four acres of
land was in other persons than in the
hands of the defendants, wherefore
the plaintiff was unable to purchase
them. Damages were laid at $264,
with interest from July 2S, 1904.
On Tuesday afternoon the case in
assumpsit of Charles Theobald VS..
VIM. j. Ramble, in which plaintiff
claims judgment of 1920,
began. Attorney Peter II. Iloff for
plaintiff and Attorney F. p. Kimble
for defendant. Defendant admitted
that he owed plaintiff $1,000 and
rendered payment along with the
costs. Tender was refused. The
case is another instance where the
Court of Common Pleas of Wayne
county is being used to settle petty
disputes which never ought to have
passed the Justice court
The jury in the case of Charles
Theobald VS.. VIM. j. Ramble, non
assumpsit, gave judgment of $3.50
in favor of the plaintiff having
come in when court opened Wednes-
day morning,
On Wednesday morning the case
of William Ives VS.. c. A. Cortright
& Son was settled by the jury Civ
ing plaintiff Judgment of $3.50. The
case had been pending settlement
and Charles McCarty, attorney for
Ives, put f. H. Cortright on the
stand, who testified that he owed
plaintiff the sum of $3.50, which was
given, Plaintiff originally claimed
$142.50. The jury were H. L. But
Ter, Lake; Wesley Decker, Hawley:
Thomas Flynn, Buckingham; c.
Gardner, Scott; H. L. Hartford,
Sterling; Stanley H. Hines, Preston;
James Johns, Bethany; John Jor-
den, Paupack; Adam Knorr, Ore
gon; w. p. Schenck, Texas; n. o.
Walker, Clinton; ]. C. Wittig, So.
Canaan.
The case of C. A. Cortright and E.
H. Cortright VS.. F. w. Kreitner and
w. II. Kreitner, composing firm of
Kreitner Bros, the Wayne Concrete
Supply and Construction Co., and
Edward Pierce and Eugene Baker,
composing firm of Pierce & Baker,
was put on this morning; jury en-
panelled and first witness called.
The first witness was E. H. Cort-
right. Mumford and Greene, attor-
Simons and McCarty, attorneys for
defense.
The case of the Hancock Crushed
and Building Stone Co. VS.. the New
York, Ontario & Western Railroad
Co., in which plaintiff claimed judg-
ment of $4,000, was continued un-
til next term of court.
The case of the Ensign Lumber
Co. VS.. c. A. Cortright & Son was
settled out or court by defendant
paying the claim made by plaintiff
for the balance of an account for
lumber.
This week will close the June
term of court without any rush work
on anybody. Many of the cases have
been continued over to the next term
OF court. Those continued are: ia
cob p. Klausner VS.. Frank De Breun,
trespass; Ezra Sellick VS.. Frank De
Bruen and Martin De Bruen, defend
ants appeal in assumpsit; Fred r.
Holbert VS.. BERTHE HadaWay and
Mike Hadaway, assumpsit; Emma
Conley vs.. Kate McKanna, defend
ants appeal from assumpsit; John
Carey VS.. Township of Buckingham,
trespass; James Nagle VS.. Lake Lo-
dore improvement Co., trespass; Err
win l.. Thomas Tvs. W. NJ. Norton,
executor of the last win and tesla
ment of Mary r. Thomas, assumpsit; ;
John Silvia and Jacob HoWanecs VS..
Frank Kelsey and Rachael Kelsey.
mis- wife trasDaSS