The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
HARD ON FARMERS
April Term of Court VIII Keep
Them Busy.
On Docket 80 Cases Are Set
for Trial.
EXPECT SPICY TESTIMONY
Some Alienation Suits Will
Likely Be Sensational.
Criminal Cases Are
to Be Tried.

! With 80 cases on the trial docket
for the April term of the district
court, there is every promise that the
! farmers who sit on the juries at the
coming term of court will miss many
valuable days in the corn fields. By
virtue of the agreement to alternate
the criminal work, the heavy cases
will this term go to Judge Whitcomb's
| court where 203 of the 80 cases will
be on for trial
Some hard fought cases will be tried
IN the next three months in the Shaw
nee county courts and the jury work
is this time generously allotted to the
farmers. This will cause sleepless
nights on the rural routes Many Of
the more important cases are actions
for damages. Plaintiffs in these cases
want money for personal injury, for
raise representations, for SANDER, for
heart balm and a collection of miscel
laneous causes upheld by the Kansas
statutes. Added to these cases is an
exceptional heavy criminal docket.
There are just 81 actions for dam
ages for trial at the April term of
court. Included in the list is the Ste
wart-Re ser alienation suit, which is
expected to produce some highly spicy
and sensational evidence. The action
is for $4,000 and was filed by Lillian
G. Stewart against Edith Reser to re-
cover for the loss of the affections of
tor and postmaster. A close compan-
ion of the Stewart case is the a1iena-
ton suit of Charles N. Spencer against
George Sell, wealthy land owner.
Spencer charged that Sell stole Mrs.
Stewards love and values his compan-
ions affections at $1,000
Then come a collection of so other
damage suits of varied hue and color.
Many are against the street railway,
railroads and other corporations for
personal injuries. Some of them
promise to be long and tedious and
do not carry the heart interest con-
tanned in the love cases.
Thirty Divorce Cases on Docket.
On the docket are just 80 divorce
cases. This is comparatively small
number In Shawnee county the av-
erage divorce case goes through the
justice mill without the Formally OF
getting on the next terms trial court.
The 80 cases listed are in addition to
a half dozen more in which the disap-
pointed wife wants real money in the
form of permanent alimony from her
affinity. Neither do they include three
actions which plaintiffs seeks either to
set aside former marriages or annul
divorce DEGREES claimed in hasty and
unguarded moments. The 80 divorce
cases for trial will probably be con-
tested and the family records for a
score of years will be dragged into
court to permit an accurate guess on
the merits of the trouble.
In listing the heavy cases. the IL
quor prosecutions cannot be easily
overlooked. There are just 81 of
these cases for trial. Some of them
warmed over from the closing term,
while a comparatively small number
represent the efforts of the little band
of spoilers who have not slept on
their jobs.
Only One Murder Case.
Among the state cases. are IL &C
tions against persons for embezzle-
ment, forgery or larceny in varying
degrees. Four cases charge assault
with intent to kill and six others are
for various degrees of assault The
Ed Pillow murder case is the only one
of it's kind for trial. Pillow is charg-
ed with the murder of his wife several
weeks ago Matte Troys name con-
tinues to have a place on the dock ct, |
but no one predicts she will be tried. |
The woman was arrested several years.
ago for poisoning her son, feigned in
sanity. was taken to the asylum, es-
capped was captured and escaped
again. She is still at large.
Counting all of them from assault
and battery to first degree murder, |
there are 81 criminal cases on the |
April docket.
Some Injunction Cases, Too.
Very few cases appealed from the |
local police court are to be found in |
the new docket. There are but IL |
of these appeals, where usually the |
clerk of the court makes room for |
30 or 40. Regardless of the short |
age of material from the police court, |
there is no shrinkage in the size of the |
term docket. |
County Attorney Simon has some |
half dozen or more injunction cases |
for this term. Dates for jurors to re-
port have not been announced.
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