News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-17
COUNTY COURT

Last week Wednesday morning was
occupied with the close Of the case oil
State VS.. Ernest Longey, the evidence,
arguments, and charge being finished so
that the jury got the case shortly after
IL. They were out only very short
time, one of the shortest ever taken by
a jury in this court, and returned with
verdict of guilty. The respondent was
sentenced to not less than three years
nor more than four years in the State
Prison at Windsor, and was taken there
by Deputy Sheriff Jones, Monday morn.
ing. After disposng of this case recess
was taken for the purpose OF attending
Judge Powers funeral.
Court came in shortly before five clock
and Lena Lumbra, who had pied guilty
of adultery with Longey, was sentenced.
She received the same sentence as Long
ey, but in consideration of her age. and
| the fact that her husband had forgiven
| the crime, her sentence was suspended,
| and she was placed in the hands of the
Probation Officer for four years, one of
the conditions being that she be faith
full wife during that term.
During the week three divorce cases
were heard:
Alice Marston VS.. Ernest Marston, in
tolerable severity and refusal to support.
Myrtle A. Brill VS.. Frank M Brill, re-
fusal to support.
Sarah H. Montague VS.. Gordon Mon
tague, refusal to support.
Huburd for Petitioner in each case.
Decisions had not been announced when
court took its recess at the end of the
week, on account of the illness of Judge
Leach.
Thursday afternoon the foreclosure case
OF Euzeb Gotta VS.. L. S. Carpenter was
commenced, and the proceedings resem-
bled a town meeting in Johnson-if
women could vote-as there was a large
attendance of witnesses from that town.
The Petitioner claimed that the defend
ant had broken the conditions OF mort
gage given the Petitioner by the Defend
ant on the farm of Gotta, which he had
decided to Carpenter, for his support, and
the Defendant denied it in toto, and sew.
eral other ways. After an afternoon of
scrapping, and some evidence, the parties
evidently thought better of their fight,
and FRIDAY morning the case was settled
in manner satisfactory to all concerned
and what looked like another heifer
case" was avoided.-Tracy and Hulburd
for Petitioner; Cheney and Maurice for
Deft.
Various entries of no particular i'm
portance, except as they hurry up some
hearings, were made in the chancery
cases, and the only one of interest was in
the case @. L. Gates, SpecI Admr., VS..
Town of Hyde Park ct ais. This is the
case where the late L. H. Lanpher during
his late sickness gave the Town of Hyde
Park $4,000 for a library which the heirs
seek to set aside on the ground of fraud
and lack of mental capacity on the part
OF the giver. The children Of Lanpher
were allowed to enter as parties orator;
the demurrer to the bill sust aimed and the
orators have leave to amend by more
tIlly setting out the claimed fraud No
was made in this case, and it
will doubtless be tried at the June term.
This disposed of all the work for the
term, EXCEPT Byron Lambert ct ais VS..
carrie Lambert, an appeal from Probate
Here the heirs claim that the commission
,rs set out to Mrs. Lambert too much
swamp, rocks, and shack, for home 1
stead, and seek to compel a restriction of I
Ter domain. In this case Plf S vidently
got 'cold feet" as judgement was en-. |
cred without protest for Deft Flee a
wood for Plff.; nulburd for Deft.
In divorce cases of Brill, Morton and I
Montague, bills were allowed Monday. t
The petition for divorce in the case OF
Blanche NJ. Vigeant VS.. Arthur W. Wig, t.
ant, Elmore, was heard Monday and a
NIL was granted for wilful desertion.-
fleetwood for Pet'r. r
The business of the term was finished II
t $50 a. M, Tuesday and Sheriff Town
1 stentorian tones and a whack of the +,
avel SO proclaimed. 1t was busy two W
'eeks, the docket being we'll cleaned ap. fl
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