Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-05
SUPERIOR COURTS
 LAW DAY PROMISES
 SEVERAL NOVELTIES
Today Many Motions Pending and Otherwise will be Ar
 gued Before Judge Lock- woods Court at Tombstone

1 TOMBSTONE. Feb. 4. (SpeciaD-
 Tomorrow will be law day in the Su- lperior court and number of questions
 of law will be taken up regarding a number of cases. The demurrer to the
 complaint and Co tn eanswer in the
 case of Nellie Griesback vs Cochise
 County will be heard. This case was
 brought by the plaintiff against the County for alleged damages in the sum of S1, 900 on account of the food
 ing Of her ranch near St. David by the 6itching of flood waters in building the
 county road in that vicinity. The de- murrer to the complaint in the damage case against Sheriff Wheeler for al- leged damages in the sum of 5000 for searching her house in Bisbee will
 also be heard.
 The demurrer to the complaint in the case of Finley vs the Douglas Mus ic Company will also come up. Besides there there are a number of others to be heard, as well as a num-
 Der of motions.
 | The demurrer to the complaint in i the case of the State of Arizana vs J. B. Merck and J. D. Mccartney has been overruled by the court and the case will now be tried on its merits. This case was brought by the County 10 collect the sum of $500 from the de- .endants who were on the bond of H. B. Russell, who was convicted of boot |, iegging last year. Russell was to ap- peer the next day after being convict ed for sentence and failed to put in an appearance.
 The bondsmen refused to pay the amount of the bond and the county through County Attorney Ross brought suit to recover the amount of the bond. The case promises to be one of inter- est on account of the point involved as 10 whether or not the bondsmen were liable after he had been convicted and before sentence had been pronounced.
 The defendants claim the bond was void after Russell had been convicted and that he should have been taken Lto custody The State claims that The bond holds good until he had been sentenced as it reads until, finally disposed of."
 Tn tbe Juvenile Court last evening the case against Louis Carpio was dis missed and the youth discharged. He was accused of having taken a horse from the Catholic priest at Pirtleville and sold him to officers On the Mexi- can side of the line at Agua Prieta. The case has been pending for several days but could not be reached on ac- count of the Murphy case
 Other Criminal Business.
 There will also be some criminal business taken up. Pleas of guilty will be entered in the cases of the State vs Stone and Burke, both charg- ed with introducing intoxicating liquor into the State They will be given chance to work on the county roads with the balance of the bootleggers. The gang is getting rather small as a number have been released during the past week, their sentences having ex- pired The gang will complete the and will then be moved to work on the road between here and Bisbee.
 l. is understood that c. " Watts, who was tried recently and the jury failed to agree upon verdict, will en- ter a plea of guilty also. !. Property Will Be Sold.
 Sheriff Wheeler, according to notice posted and published, will sell at pub lie auction in front of the court house on Monday the 7th, at II o'clock, all the rights, title and interest of the Bonanza Belt Copper Company in and i 10 a number of mining claims and the Mining District. The property involv- ed includes five patented mining claims is the celebrated "Old Peabody" 1 which has produced thousands of tons Dl SOOu tOppti O4G but NhlOn hdS diSo been in more litigation than any other mining claim in Cochise County. The property is to be sold to satisfy a judgement against the company rem ! dered in the Superior Court of Pima County in favor Of the Empire Trust Company of New York for the sum of S70. .70S26 besides the interest on 50.0O0 since the Isl day of December 1915. together with the costs, etc ! There promises to be some spirited bidding as the property involved is worth much more than the judgement | and several parties are anxious to se- cure it.