Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-10-16
CASES IN COURT
CLAIM INTEREST
JUDGE sTOcksLAGER PREsiDES
OVER BUSY SESSION or CIVIL
HEARINGS.

Not until Friday Of last week did
the October session OF the district
court have any interesting trial fea-
lures, but from that day tin wednes-
day. beth days inclusive, there was
something doing every day. Judge
Stockslager presided. Judge Walters
looked in upon the session Tuesday
afternoon, being on his way from
Fremont county. where he had pre-
sided in a long -drawn-out murder
trial. to visit Boise. But he did moth
ing but look pleasant and smile the
smile that won't come of to the bench,
to lawyers, Jurors, witnesses and
spectators. Judge Stockslager re-
turned the smile with interest as did
everybody else in the court room.
The case of Arthur W. Baum vs.
Settlers Reclaiming and Operating
Company was begun Friday morning.
and finished Saturday afternoon with
a verdict for the plaintiff for ss2O.1S.
The plaintiff claimed a balance due him
of 500 month as additional salary,
making $500 month in all for the
year OF 1912, for his services as sec
retary and treasurer of the company.
The evidence showed that the COM
pany had appreciated his services TO
the extent of voluntarily offering to
increase his pay. but this offer was
finally Withdrawn when it was not ac-
cepted, and the company claimed its
obligation to pay only the original
contract salary, or $500 a month.
The company still owed Mr.. Baum
s2201S. to which amount it was willing
to confess judgment. The jury after
a rather stormy session, came TO the
conclusion to allow Mr.. Baum s620.13
or one-third the amount in contro-
versy.
A NJ. Richardson of Richfiefd won a
verdict of s120 in a suit against the
county for services rendered in the
small pox quarantine in Richfeld two
years ago. He was called in as nurse
and messenger. without there ever
seeming to be a very definite author
ity from any official body to so serve.
The facts of service We're not in con-
troversy, but the fact of responsibility
for payment was. The jury appears to
forces a quarantine and takes that
much official charge of such q case,
it is the public duty to see to pay for
services rendered, even when the au-
thorization was not complete and clear
in its details; and Mr.. Richardson
was given a verdict for the full amount
One case came all the way from III
inois for trial-an attachment case
from down near Jerome, in which F.
Glaeser sought TO recover total of
a little more than s3,04s in principal
and interest from E. Mosely. The case
involved a long series of transactions
between the two men, and a bank
ruptcy and subsequent other failure
in business of a stationery concern in |
which Mosley was the chief worker |
and Glaeser the voluntary financier. !
He seems to have paid one guarantee
note of s1,250 on Mosley's account |
which was not disputed; and later, TO /
have accepted some other notes for
the sale of the business. which was to
apply either TO the liquidation of the
whole amount due from Mosely or as
payment on account. The jury came
to the conclusion that it was fun
release, since Glaeser had had a
chance 70 collect the note, which made
the sum total of all the assets after
Moseiy had lost all his money and
that of his friends in the enterprise;
and so. they brought in verdict for
MoseIy, releasing him from all obli-
CATION in the case. 1t was without
doubt one OF the most battling cases
that has been tried in this court in
many terms. in its chances for or
against either side being in the right.
But it is settled and viii not be ap-
pealed
A Iong-standing case in court.
reiict Of ante-county division days
when the northside Of the Snake riv-
er at Miner was still in Lincoln county,
came to hearing before Judge
and e jury on Wednesday.
This was the suit OF +. A. Prindle
assinst Joe Keefer. Piaintig claimed
damages for the trespass Of the de-
fcndants sheep on plainuns lands
,ear NIilner The jury returned fer
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