Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-02-23
Supreme Court Upholds
Verdict in Favor of Pine
Bluff Man Hurt at Shops.
PRIMARY OFFICIALS
CAN "ELECTIONEER'
Not a Crime fer Judge to Use Influence
at IO1ls-Snpreme Court Reyerses
Judge in Case Involving Strip of
Land 100 Fl. Long and Z In. Wide.

Little Rock, Feb. ga verdict o
$4,000 in favor Of George J. Hem
inert, of Pine Bluff, against the St
Louis Southwestern Railway com
pany was affirmed today by the su.
preme court Of Arkansas. The case
was appealed from the Lonoke cir
cult court, in which Hemmert sue(
for $4,000. Hemmert was en-
ployed in the shops at Pine Bluff
when falling timber struck him or
the head, necessitating the remova
of part of his skull.
A verdict of $4,000 was awarded
verney V. Howell, widow of w. NJ
Howell, against the Railways Ice
company of Crittenden county. How
ell was working with other men dis
mantling the plant when he was
killed. The Crittenden circuit court
awarded the widow $14,355.73, but the
supreme curt reduced the award to
$12 900.
Elcctioneering II Primary Not Crime
Flectioneering in a primary cleo
ton BY election officials is not
crime under Arkansas statutes, &C
cording to the supreme's court rul-
inc in the case of the state against
Simmons. appealed from the craig
head circuit court. Simmons. VINO
was an official in primary election,
was indicted for e1ectioneering. the
Cra;ehead circuit court held the in
dictment was not good .as the genera
law did not apply to primary elec-
lions. The verdict was affi1 med.
Another Hunters Ruling.
Nonresident hunters who lnhaplr
the Mississippi county duck GROUNDS
we're given another blow by the SUI
irene court this morning. Jordan
Stokes and others purchased strlI
of land 10 feet wide surrounding BIG
Lake. the noted Mississippi shootlhs
grounds. The owners controlled use
Of the lake by virtue of the deed te
tho strin of land 10 feet wide sur
rounding it. Because OF certain ,es,
ervations in the deed, transferred !,
the hunters by the Chicago Mill any
lumber company, the supreme cour'
TODAY reversed the verdict OF the MIS-
sissippi circuit court, which held tne
deed valid. thus declaring the huh'
ers not owning the land, had beer
viniatine the state game laws.
Benton Not City.
pon+o,, Saline county, which mas
heen going under the style OF a CO.:
# the second class since l9ll' "nel
H. legislature enacted a statute oe
claring it city, remains an merry ~ ~
rated town, for the supreme couil ~ :;
dav held that the act under WHICH a =
was made a city of the seconu o,"s,
wac unconstitutional. The nnolns
was made in the case of the Guy y
BENTON against M. NJ. Cotton. uo,
Short,-..after the law was passe'
thu citv council of Benton passed a. ~
ord;nance requiring construction y
walk, and curbing IN certain parts , y
tho municipality. Cotton, prope.
owner refused to make the lmpfote
Mani and it was done by the ei.s
Mitch later taxed the costs agalns
Cotton's property. me p 4na ta a,
when Cotton refused to pay 'ne 90,
was sold for taxes. The Same on
carv cour, upheld the Guys con 10.
tion. overruling the allesa'iohh IN
ton that the law under when ~
town had been declared city OF an u. q,
second class was unconstltutio n,',
The supreme court reversed the f IN
Ing Wrong procedure in suom submit
,ne hill seeking to make Benton n,,n
c e to the legislature was the gfou"
o IN which the finding was baseo.
Oh Fighting for Shoe string 3. Yam
Probably the smallest trac a.o o. 'd tn
ever Contested in suit before +n ~
s evn, court was ruled on py 'n =
tribunal today. 1t was the cas- ss,n.
r II. Slater and ]. w. ATKINS o a
l. T. Afford in suit IoI IN fee
from fr a strip of land about out a ava a., sn
long Ave inches wide at one enc ali sn
nine inches at the. other' "a
addition to Blytheville. ole,
slater and Atkins sueo ~ ,,h;cl
Afford from the strip Of land w s,s"r
: It was alleged, was used by 49, =
when he rebuilt "a burned mouse "
tho lot adjoining. The ioweI coa u,
held in favor of Afford, put tne -, -
nrame court reversed the verdict WI.
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