Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-06
SUPERIOR COURT
 CASES. WERE SETTLED
$1o,0oo Damage Suit and $s,50o Suit
 For Alleged Agreement.

There were three matters on the list assigned for trial in the superior court here on Tuesday. but one of them was
 settled out of court and a settlement was reached in another after the trial had proceeded part way
 The case settled out of court without coming to trial was that of Turcotet vs Uncas Power Co.
 Jean B. Turcotte, who is admins trator of the estate of his son, Stanis- laus. sued the Uncas Power Go. for the statutory sum of s10,000 for the death of the boy on June 16, 1912 at Taftvflle near the home of Victor Mar caurele. The young man was in
 stantly killed by an electric shock which he received when he picked up
 wire dangling from one of the com pany's telephone poles. The claim was made that this was a dead wire that
 had been hanging there some time, but that it had become charged with an electric current of high and dangerous voltage by contact with the wires of the Uncas Power Co.'S. high tension line strung on the same poles, oil the wires being uninsulated. Attorneys J. J. Desmond and Telley E. Babcock represented the plaintiff and Attorneys the defendant The amount of the settlement was not stated.
 When court came in jury was chosen for the trial of the case of Jeremiah O'Brien vs. Elizabeth O'Brien, administrator of the estate of the late Dennis J. O'Brien. Mrs.
 OBrien Is the stem mother of the plaintiff, who sues his fathers estate for the sum of sS,500. In his com p9aint it is the claim of the plaintiff that in 1891, when he was about 16 or IT years old. he gave up school and went to learning the trade of car penter upon the promise from his fath- CT that if he would do this he would pay him by giving him two pieces of
 real estate, Nos 6S and 72 North his father as a bartender and did car penter work and took care of the property for him. The promise about giving the property was intended to cover his services. But when the elder O'Brien died he left Mrs. O'Brien a
 life interest in the estate and at her death it is to be divided into five equal parts. one to each of the five
 children of Dennis OBrien. Three of the children are children of the administrator; The other two are the plaintiff and his mother, the late Will liam O'Brien, who wandered away into the woods number of months ago and was found dead. He has a num- ber of children to come in as heirs to his share.
 MT. O'Brien claims that his ser
 vices were worth $500 a year and he sues for $S,5O0.
 In the answer of Lawyer Tanning, who appears for Mrs O'Brien, he says
 that from 1891 to 1896 MT. O'Brien was a minor and not entitled to pay from his father and that he was pro vfded with money and board and clothes worth $4.000 and he never paid for the same.
 MT O'Brien was the first witness Perkins. He said he was born on Feb. 15, 1874, and is the son of the late Dennis J. O'Brien. He told in de-
 tail of working for his father as bar tender and to aiding as a carpenter in
 building a house on Cliff street. He also told of the promise of his father to leave him the house where the sa- loon was located
 MT. O'Brien was cross-examined at length by Lawyer Tanning.
 Frederck R. Dennison. James T.
 Woods, William J. Haggerty and
 Michael H O'Neil testified in favor
 of Mir O'Brien and to knowing of the promise of reward by the elder OBrien
 to his son.
 Charles J. Heneault testified of be- ing in the O'Brien store and to hear ing the elder O'Brien tell of his son working hard and the father said he
 was only working for himself as he would have the place to fall back on. In the afternoon the court was in formed about o'clock that a settle ment had been reached.
 The first case on the list for Wed nesday morning is that of Patrick T Connell. administrator of the estate
 of the late Theodore w. Warrington of Norwich, against Elizabeth L. Whitford of Canterbury to get pos- session of property in the possession
 of the defendant and which the plain tiff claims belongs to the estate of MT. Warrington. It consists of l lum- Der wagon, 1 open buggy, 1 bay mare 4 cows a lot of farming fooIs and implements, 3 sets of harnesses and a lot of household furniture, all of the value of $500.
 MT. Warrington died intestate on April 21, 1912 and the administrator claims that the defendant has refused to surrender possession of the goods named, although demand has often been made of her. Shields and Shields appear for the plaintiff and A. M. Brown for the defendant.
 The women's prayer meeting held