The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-12
COURT REvERSES
VERDICT OF JURY
Mrs. Crush Gets $1OO. and Then
Loses by Judges Order.
Other Cases.

ChristiansburG Va, December H.
The December term Of the Montgomery
circuit Court. which had been I'm Ses-
sion since the drst of the month. ad-
1ourned yesterday after transacting q
Largo amount of business. While the
criminal docket was small and no case
of special Importance was tried. the
civil and chauccrv matters were of
more than usual number and import
ance. Probably more applications for
the correction OF erroneous assessments
were heard than at any one form In
several years. but IN not q single in
stance did auy taxpayer complain be
cause his property WAS assessed too
high all claiming the property was
exempt from assessment
The most important jur, case was
Mary Z Crush vs. the Town of Chris
t.ansbure, III which The plaintiff sought
10 recover $1,000 damages 10 her prop
criy By reason OF some excavation
done b. the town over a year ago In
improving Main Street in front of her
property While the evidence and the
courts Instructions were favorable
10 the defendant get tile jury returned
a verdict OF 500 damages against Tho
defendant wnich the court promptly
Sc, aside,
The case Of O. c. Sell Is The Vir.
gilman Railway Co. which was set for
trial on December : was continued ON
the motion Of Tho defendant The
plaintiff sued for Sl0.ooo damages for
an INJURY received two wears ago as "a
mail clerk on ono OF the defendants
trains The plaiutift was awarded
$500 damages ono year a@o. hut the
supreme Court reversed The Judgment.
and a new trial WAS ordered. The at
taohu 20. suit OF II NJ Johnson Il ais.
VS. : W. aid ]. y, Wilkinson of Eris-
toll. involving controversy over the
payment Of S755 claimed by the plain
lifts. wUs decided III favor OF the dc
tendbtts, but the court restrained the
defendants from cutting ana removing
The residue OF the timber from the
plaintiffs lands
The suit OF J a Al1ert VS.. VI. NJ
Jones, involving a controversy about
= shortage IN tract of LAND supposed
10 contain 1l5 acres which Albert re
served irom larger boundary sold
10 Jones, was decided in favor of the
rlaintifI, Yivug him S3i5 for the short
age Of about fourteen ncres
Probably tho most bitterly contested
case heard by the court was on the
application FOR an injunction in The
suit of Echols ". The Nirciniau Rail
way Co, in which the plaintiff claimed
That the defendant had created nut
sanco 10y diYerting the North Fork OF
The Roanoke River several years aEo.
leaving the old bed which had collect
I'd . large quantity of surface water
Which became stagnant IN the dry, hot
season OF last summer. ana was men,
5ce 10 the health OF The plaintim and
The community The court deferred
endering an opinion until January 70. /
when further proof and arguments will
be submitted in Roanoke.
Among The visiting attorneys attend
lng court during tho term were u \
Of Norfolk. Nelson sale. OF
Bedford; Thomas /. Moore II T Hall .
y Il Hunt, = J.. staples. Mercer Hart
man ana J. 6. Challice. OF Roanoke: y
r. Eskridge, Jr.. of Pulaski: seldom
l-onEley and r. L. Jordan. Of l2adford:
7. Z Profit and :. :. PediGo Of Floyd; 1
VIII Dunlap ana j. + Galloway, Of
'}lacksburg