St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-19
JUDGE FISH COMING :
Will Preside At December Term OF
County Court Which Opens Dec
ember 2 Petit Jurors.

The December term of Caledonia
county court will open at 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning, December with
Judge F. L. Fish of Vergennes pre-
siding. This is Judge Fishs first
visit to Caledonia county court and
the term may prove a long and
important one The dockets will be
distributed next week and contain
1870 civil cases, SO divorce cases, Sc
state cases and chancery cases.
One Very Old Case
Some familiar cases like those of
the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust
Co., against the insurance companies
and the trustees of the Cobleigh es-
tate against various Lyndonville
parties do not appear. this session.
In the chancery docket is an old ia
miliar case, that of James D. Bell
ct al. v. Vermont Division p. & o.
R. r. Co. An amended bill in this
case as filed with the court on June
5, 1880. In the December term of
that year the death of Mr.. Bell was
suggested and Administrator c. j.
Bell entered to prosecute. Various
entries are made from term to term
and at the December term in 1907
the deaths of the following orators
were suggested and their admins
traitors allowed to enter and prose
cute: D. B. Cummings, Bruce II.
CuthbertsOn, Joseph Farrar, Isaac
E. Hull, Peter Higgins, Lorenzo
Jones, n. Keniston, N. l.. Merrill,
A. D. Rollins, James M. Smith, }.
s. TiIton, A. G. West and James
Of tho r.
iginal parties in the case were alive
at that time is not known. On May
IL. 1908 a decree was filed that the
case remain on the docket for fur
ther order. On May 26 the same
wear the case was appealed to the
Supreme Court and at the November
term in 1911 the cause was remand
ed with directions "that the decree
be so altered as to charge the de-
fendant with payment to the ora
tors of the amount of cash and
agents accounts that were turned
over to it at the time it took pos
session of the road at the time OF
the receivership, and that the decree
be further altered so as to charge
the property that constituted the
mortgage security with the restora-
ton of so much of the net earnings
as is needed to complete full pay
ment of orators aggregate claim with
interest thereon; in all other re-
spects the decree is affirmed; let
new time of payment be fixed" That
is the close of the record and no no
tice of the death of Ex.-Gov. Bell has
ever been given in the case. No
attorneys are now recorded with
the case and the final disposition OF
the case which seems to have been
practically won by the orators will
be a matter of interest.
The Petit Jurors
The petit jurors called for the
December term are:
J. G. Blair, T. P. Robie and L.
Cole and John Lavely of Burke; Will |
H. Thornton of Barnet; John G. |
liam F. Dole, Homer P. Stanton and |
Alonzo F. Page of Danville. Horace
G.. Clark and Charles R. Ford of
Groton; Nelson R. Alston, ]. H.
McLoud and Charles H. Wilson of
Everand K. Richards of
Kirby; Alva E. Bishop, o. ]. Leon
ard and Fred G. Shonyo of Lyndon;
Willie Bean of Newark; G. w. Darl-
ing and Ashley Munger of Peacham;
Harry T. Brown and b. M. Fuller +
Of Ryegate; Frank F. Pearl of Shelf
field, John N. Sawtelle of Stannard;
Arthur R. Aiken, Michael H. Cole
man, Darwin A. Houghton and Clar
ence B. Weeks of st. JOhnsbury;
Harley M. Curtis and Ernest r. Ian
1her of Sutton; Charles H. Brown
md Walter Kittredge of Walden;
Harry E. Remick and Morton Lyster
IF Waterford; w. J. Mooney of