Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-10-13
HEARS DIVORCE CASES
County Court Listens to Evidence
in Several Petitions
Judge Slack to Sit in Brattleboro
Tuesday and Judge Fish in Newfane
Jury to Return Tuesday.

Two sessions of the Windham county
court at the same time, one in Newfane
with Judge Frank l.. Fish presiding
and one of the assistant county judges
sitting with him, and the other in Brat
tleboro at which Judge Leighton p.
Slack and the other of the assistant
judges will sit, is the program for next
Tuesday as announced in county court
Wednesday afternoon by Judge Slack.
The jury case of Lottie h. Doyle
against the Strout Farm agency has
been set for trial Tuesday. Judge
Slack is disqualified from hearing this
case and has asked Judge Fish to hear
it. On the same day Judge Slack will
come to Brattleboro and hear the court
case of Rosa B. Stockwell against the
estate of Thomas f. Stockwell, w. A.
Shumway, administrator. This case is
an appeal from the commissioner de-
cision, they having refused to allow q
claim the plaintiff made against the
estate, which totals about $1,000.
One divorce case was heard Tuesday
morning, that of Daisy (Phillips)
English of Brattleboro against Edward
G.. English. w. r. Daley appeared for
the petltlOner.
In the county court Wednesday the
case of F. D. and H. A. Tucker of
Brattleboro against DR.. A. j. Green
wood and the town of Pawlet, trustee,
was tried. DR.. Greenwood appealed
from u municipal court judgment of
about $3.50 rendered AS pay for board
for his son. The plaintiffs in the case
are grandparents of the boy. o. b.
Hughes appeared for the plaintiffs,
Fred H. Spaulding of Springfield for
the defendant and NJ. C. Weber for
the trustee. No decision was given.
The divorce suit of Upham against
Upham was tried, w. d. Smith ap-
peared for the petitioner. There was
no decision.
Judge Leighton P. Slack announced
Wednesday that the jury would be
recalled next week to hear the case of
Lottie +. Doyle against the Strout
farm agency.
The divorce suit of Jennie Louise
McNeirny, daughter of David E. Nc
| Elhinny of Brattleboro, against Frank
| McNeirny of New York, was heard
Wednesday afternoon, She charged in
| tolerable severity, descrtion and ne
glect and refusal to support. They
were married in Brattleboro Sept. !,
1910. She asks alimony. G. G.. Fits
| appeared for the petitioner and A. F.
Schwenk for the petitionee.
Mrs. McElhinny, Mrs. McNeirny,
Mrs. L. p. Greene and j. Harry Estey
were the witnesses examined, the two
latter tcstifying to the standing in the
community of the petitioner. Mrs. Nc
| Neirny told of gross and confirmed
habits of intoxication and of abuse
as the results of those habits.
| The divorce petition of Edward f
| Ferrin against Alice Lombard Ferrin
was herad Wednesday afternoon, At
torney o. B. Hughes appearing for the
petitioner.
| The divorce suit of Louis E. Day
against Bertha p. Day, also was heard
Attorney f. Z. Barber appearing for
the petitioner.
Peter Bove, a defendant in suits of
| Orrin o. Ware of Wilmington and the
Durham Brothers Co. of Brattleboro,
defaulted yesterday morning in both
and judgment in the full amount was
entered in each suit o. E. Butterfeld
represented the plaintiffs.
The petition of Bessie Lyman of
Brattleboro asking that Clyde Lyman
of Wilmington, from whom she was di-
vorced in 1913, be required to contrib
ute to the support of their minor child,
who is in possession of the mother,
was heard yesterday. +. +. Barber
appeared for the petitioner and A. F.
Schwenk for Clyde Lyman.