Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-04-14
JURY EXCUSED UNTIL MONDAY
April Term of County Court Now in
Session-Lisle Carpenter Case Comes
First-Hearing Divorce Gases.

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The April term of the Windham
county court opened Tuesday morning in
the court house in Newfane with Chief
Justice Willard w. Miles of Barton
presiding. Assistant Judges f. b. Pier
and e. l.. Hastings were on the bench
with him.
The court was formally called to or
der by Sheriff G. T.. Mann and prayer
was offered by Rev. Charles w. Mock
of Newfane. Attorneys from out of
the county who were among those
present included c. F. Black of st. Al.
bans, Robert Simonds of st. Johns
bury, julius Wilcox of Montpelier, F..
p. Bicknell of White River Junction,
l.. r. Pierce of Woodstock and Homer
Skeels of Ludlow. Robert Twitchell,
an attorney who has taken the former
Office of G. II. Thompson at Bellows
Falls, also was present.
The forenoon was spent in calling
the general docket and disposing OF
numerous cases.
The cases of Charles L. Young
against Wayland d. Russell, and d.
F.. Croweli against the Barber Milling
Co. and Il. Crosby & Co. were dis
continued for lack of prosecution.
The entry of petition for removal
of guardian for Bert B. Williams
was reported as a misentry and went
off the docket.
The following cases were dicontin.
ued: +. j. Roberts, apt, against Frank
| f.. Barber, admr. upon estate of Ju.
Llama Greene; n. +. Taintor, apt,
against same; estate of Francis H.
Morse against Lewis II. Lynde, adm,
apt.
The following were entered as set
tied and discontinued: II. j. and c. H.
Davenport against the Vermont Ma.
tional bank; National Metal Edge Box
Co. against Freeman Hager and trus-
tee; p. II. Gobic against the Ameri-
can Express Co.; Leroy Smith against
George Wilson and j. II. McBay,
apis; Delbert A. Boynton against
Del D. Parker; l.. P. Copeland against
e. NJ. Holden; John F. Alexander, jr.,
admir- estate of Warner Townshend
against George w. Hall.
The afternoon was occupied i'll
hearing arguments of motions by coun-
sci for the Central Vermont Railroad
Co., defendant in the case of Lisle M.
Carpenter, plaintiff, to recover damages
for injuries received while i'll the en-
ploy of the railroad. The various mo-
lions were denied and the case was or
dered for trial before a jury on the
question of the assessment of damages.
BY arrangement between counsel the
case was set for trial Monday afternoon
and will be the first jury case to be
heard at this session of court. The jury
was excused until Monday afternoon.
Not much was done at the morning
session Wednesday and court took re-
cess until yesterday morning, when
court and divorce cases were taken up,
which will occupy the rest of the
week. There are so many jury cases on
the docket for trial that this will be,
probably, the only opportunity to try
divorce cases at the present term of
court.
The session yesterday morning was
occupied by hearing the divorce pc
tition of Mabel R. (Haynes) Akley of
Brattleboro against Leon Thomas Ak
ley. The bill was granted on the ground
of intolerable severity. Attorney E. w.
Gibson represented the petitioner.
In the afternoon session yesterday
Victoria Louise Horton was granted a
divorce from James Fred Horton and
Ora j. Underwood was allowed a di-
vorce from Lena Underwood. The case
of Pearl M. Jillson for divorce from
John j. .Jillson was begun.