The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-22

| 15S,0I2; Texas, 4,019,317; all others 55,95
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 it was thought that impeachment proceed | lngs would be instituted against the
 Clarke county sheriff The investigation l did not reveal, however, that the sheriff 1 had really been neglectful of duty, and
 the governor allowed the matter to drop. l The opinion in the Jackson case was written by Justice T. C. Mcclellan, who I said:
 1 "rhe sole predicate for his guilt is sought, in the evidence, to be prescribed
 to appellants preconcert with Ben JacN- son, who actually fired the fatal shot, or 1 to an aiding or abetting of Ben Jack son."
 Alimony Case In the case of the state ex rel. R. D. Whitehead vs. A. H. Benners, chancellor of the northwestern division, being a pe- tition for a mandamus requiring Judge Benners to set aside a decree of the Jeff ferson chancery court granting s60 per month alimony to Edna Lee Whitehead divorcee, the supreme court issued a rule nisi to Judge Benners, returnable to that tribunal on November 8 The effect of the supreme courts action is to allow Judge Benners to submit evidence by No- vomber 8 showing why the decree in the divorce case had been granted. In addition to these cases the supreme court handed down 26 other decisions, a large number of which were decisions in damage suit cases Four of these cases were from Jefferson county, three of which were reversed and remanded and the fourth was settled by agreement. Three of the cases were against the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, the plaintiffs in the cases being Mrs. May H. Gonzales, who sued for $20, 900 for injuries sustained while a passenger on one of the defendants cars: Sadie C. Barrett. who claimed s10000 for the same cause, and Mrs Alice Glenn, who asked for s10,000 for injuries received. All three cases were reversed, the decisions having been written by Justice Somerville.
 In the lower court Mrs May Con zales was awarded s4237.50 damages
 Sadie c. Barrett was awarded $3500
 damages and Mrs. Alice Glenn was | awarded $1750.
 Tn the case of the Louisville and
 Nashville Railroad company vs James & Glasgow, which was appealed from the Shelby circuit court the supreme awarding 5000 damages to Glasgow for injuries received while a passen- ger on one of the company's trains
 Cotton Cases Two cases involving large cotton
 transactions were decided in the SUI prcme court Thursday One of them is of special interest in Montgomery, all though 1t comes from the Geneva coun- l ty circuit
 tp this case Fillmore, Quillian & Co. l large Montgomery cotton factors, sued l the Henderson, -Mizell Mercantile com 1 pany for $534S.75 for an alleged breach
 of a contract under the terms of which
 the cotton firm claimed, the defendant l was to deliver 300 bales of cotton to l the plaintiff at samson, october 20, 1909.
 l In the lower court verdict was l given for the defendant, but the SUI
 preme court Thursday upset the find- I ings by reversing the case and remand ing it to the circuit court of Geneva I for another trial. Delicate shades of 1 Jaw figured in the reversal. l Tn the second cotton case, Otto Wolf. 1 a merchant of Uniontown, is given a l Judgment of s10, ,56S 73 against w. s. Lowell,
 trustee of the estate of Knight, Yancey 1 X Co.,. the big Decatur cotton firm. which failed several years ago Wolf originally 1 filed suit against the Planters & Mer- chants bank of Uniontown, but the bank 1 I party defendant. and the case, was I changed accordingly. In the suit the ind l ings of the Perry circuit court are af- l firmed throughout.
 Other decisions were handed rieu oy l the supreme court as follows: l Dowell, c. J.-Morris & Company, ct al vs. Barton X Allen ct al. appeal from l Tallapoosa chancery court; affirmed. 1 Anderson, ,J.-C. H. Young. as trustee,
 etc, vs. Nellie NJ. Thomson, appeal from Calhoun circuit court; affirmed, l Matte C. Watson vs. Newton o. Haml- l ton. appeal from St. Clair chancery court;
 affirmed.
 Mcclellan, J.-carrie A. Tuggle vs. Irene Wilson, ct al, appeal from Jefferson probate court; affirmed.
 Nixon State bank vs. First State bank of Bridgeport, appeal from Jackson chan cery court; affirmed.
 J. w. Hunnicutt vs. NJ. M. Head, ap- peal from Bibb circuit court; affirmed
 Mayfield. J.--J. Hinton Curtis, as-~ad- l ministrator, vs. A. B. Curtis, appeal from Wilcox chancery court. affirmed. Leone Bessiere as administratrix, vs.
 Alabama City Gadsden and Attala Rail- way company, appeal from Gadsden city court: reversed and remanded.
 Sayre. J.--Suttie X Weaver Land and 1 Improvement company vs Muggie E Barker appeal from Perry circuit court: reversed and remanded.
 Southern Railway company vs. J. w. Collins. Jr., appeal from Hale law and equity court; affirmed.
 F. Carr as administrator, etc. vs Illi- nois Central Railroad company appeal from Jefferson chancery court; reversed
 and rendered.
 A. E. Walker vs. s. W. Frerson. appeal from Lauderdale ehancery court; af- firmod.
 l l. F.. Alexander Vs. Alabama Western Railroad company. appeal from Franklin | circuit court affirmed.
 l Somerviie, J.-Thomas Gilchrist Shack