Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-10-17
District court WLLLAD)0URN
WITH FINISH OF CASE TODAY
COURT ADJOURNS TO SOME
TIME IN NOVEMBER

After "A short rest on Thursday the
4 ,yrirt court again took up work on
},>:,iav morning" The case of George
l;:ln!rrsrhein, as administrator Of til
[ ,Ter Ialmcrshein estate, ". John
7N:-rhke, was taken lp. In this cas-:
tie plaintiff sued MiSrhllc for $4,000 as
,;"ra~es for the death OF rerer Palmer
...vlr. who the plaintiff held was killed
* ; Nick from 4 stallion which htlon?
t.. to Mischkr. On Saturday morning
tue case went to the jury and III less
i3.an an hour IL Neriirt was rcturnt 1
jn favor OF the Defendant.
Saturday afternoon the case OF
+. Trebiatowski vs.. StanIS'aus An,
,r,.wzjtwski was taken up. This case
!, ;,n action for the recovery Of $1,000
g.: note which the plaintiff ci":me'i
was due on land contract. The &C.
1,,,,Iaut held that the contract hat
never been received and that he wa
;ctoyiratel at the time the note was
S!Ncn.
\ new law which was passed at the
lat legislature, making III jurors a
Sufficient number to return a verdict
when the case has been out for H.
ours, came into use in this county Tor
the first time in this case. The jury
},r1 been out for over - hours and
Sunday morning 10 jurors finally
thought in verdict in favor or the
defendant.
Judge Parsons returned to Fergus
Falls Sunday and Judge Roeser of St.
Cloud was on the bench Monday morn
in"
The first case to come up Monday
7s:crning was that OF John Schmolke
IS, Elizabeth Ubl for $4,000 damages
f,1 alleged Islander. The defendant adj
y tied that she circulated the state
,,%nt that he had forged a note but
that she thought that It was true.
On Monday afternoon the jury re-
4,rned a verdict in the sum Of ST. in
favor Of the plaintiff. The verdict for
the plaintiff was ordered by the court
ard the jury fixed the amount.
Tuesday morning the case of Frank
A!,noel VS.. Elizabeth Marsolek was
taken up. The plaintiff claimed that
bis horse was killed Ivy q horse hrlon%-
,.... to the Defendant, through lime
fence.
On Wednesday morning the case
went to the jury, whirn returned
verdict in favor Of the defendant, MIS-
A'arsolt,k, after being oot but ten
l,:irutcs.
TIE jury returned a verdict IN favor
Ct the defendant in the ease of {. W.
l.al.rke VS.. Emil Urews, uuth ct Long
4'ra;,ic. Lohrke sued for $3.50 ON Is
u.lr which was given him in part pay
1.e1t on the fixtures IT a saloon by
l.rews. Mr.. Lohrke sold the saloon to
],rews in 1905 for $9uu and was paid
5000 cash and note for $50 for the
;lance Of the license and $3.50 for the
balance. The defendant showed that
10 had paid for goods which the
plaintiff had said were paid when the
zeal was closed, which brought the
total amount paid by him to over 1886,
which left balance OF $l4. The jury
I. turned a verdict in favor Of the de-
iendaDt Wednesday evening after be-
ing out about half an hour.
The ease of David E Bennett VS.. the
Village of Swanville is now on.
The plaintiff asks for $500 dam
ages ter injuries which he alleged he
sustained when he fell into an ex-
cavatien in the village. He holds that
the accident was due to negligence Of
the village officers. This is the last
case to be taken up and it is expected
that the court will finish work today
aud adjourn to next month.