Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-22
WIDOW |. N. CAR
REPAIRER LOSES
IN SUPREME court
r. M. Wfseman's Death Due
to Using Bar After Being
Warned Not to Do So.
BAUXITE COMPANY
ASSESSMENT PARED
Saline COunty's Figures o: 81, OOO, 900
Reduced to $4,000, Valuation by
OWners-State Aid to High School
Case Advanced.

! Little Rock June 2l-Reversal
and dismissal of a $4,000 damage
| verdict and reversal and recomiL it.
ment of an $4,000 verdict were OBJ
tanned by the Iron Mountain railroad
through decisions handed down by
the supreme court today. A verdict
of $4,000 awarded Mrs. Mary WISE
man for the death OF her husband,
r. NJ Wiseman, by the Desha circuit
court. was reversed and the case dis
missed. For errors in instructions
to the jury, the court reversed ana
remanded case to the Saline circuit
court in which the jury gave Sam
Steel, administrator of the estate OF
r. D. Steel, $4,000 for the latter's
death.
The persons killed in each instance
were car repairers. In the Wise
man suit the supreme court found
that Wiseman was killed through his
own carelessness. IA bar he was
using in lieu of 'jack' to lift a car
slipped and struck him. He died
from the injury. He had been warned
and knew better than to use the bar
according to the supreme court de-
cisiOn. In the Steel case the rail-
road maintained that the deceased
had died from typhoid fever 1t was
contended, however, that an injury
suffered by the car repairer had sap
ped his vitality aud left him unable
to withstand the disease, even if it
were not directly the cause of his
death.
Pare Big Assessment.
Victory for the American BauXlte
company in it's Saline county assess
ment fight, which has caused the
company tc discontinue working it's
holdings in this state, was won in
the supreme court this morning
when it reversed and remanded the
suit of the board of equalization of
Saline county against the company,
and cut the assessment of te COM
pany's holdings, originally fixed at
SAT 100000, to $4,000. the figures
presented by the company. The SUI
preme courts decision insfructs the
lower court to make the assessment
at this figure.
Early Action In State Cases.
Efforts to get carly action by the
supreme court on the municipal
court act, alleged to be unconstitu-
tional; the statr aid for high schools
act, also alleged to be unconstitu-
tional, and the suit by John III. Page.
commissioner of agriculture, con-
testing validity Of Gov. Geo. w. Hays
vetoes on appropriation, approx
| mating 100000, were made in the
supreme court this morning. The
court advanced the state aid suit,
filed in the Pulaski chancery court
by Senator w. o. Edmondson of
Stone county, and set the case for
submission on next Monday.
Motions to advance the suits con-
testing the municipal court bill and
the validity of the governors vetoes
were taken under consideration by
the court, which seemed indisposed
to advance additional cases. The
latter case was appealed this morn
ing.
Cow Was ''Blue Bull"
| Members of the supreme bench
this week summoned courage and
proceeded to rule on the case where
three men indicted on a charge of
stealing a COW were acquitted, when
| it was shown that the animal in
question was "blue bull" The
court held. materially. that there
isn't a great deal OF difference legal
ly, between :sbiue bull" and a
"cow." 1t also set forth, however.
that the acquittal of the lower
court acted as bar against further
prosecution of the three defendants
&c. E. Halter, l.. c. Halter and En-
NETT McGrew. The case was appeal
j ed from the Arkansas circuit court.
! Hammitt Case Recalled.
An echo of the defalcation charges
against A. H. Hammitt, former treas
urer of Cross county, was heard this
morning, when the supreme court
truled on the case of J. C. Hooten
and others against tie state. using
and others against the state, using
from that county. The court held
that of the $4,000 'defaicatioii "of the
former treasurer. $4,000 was due the
county from F. ID. Rolfe and others
/. sureties. ut also found that $4,000
/ was due the county from funds which
!, had been in the hands OF L. C. Going
j. @. Hooten and Q bank Of Harris
! burg.
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