The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1917-11-16
Court Adj djourns
After Session
OF Two Weeks

District court in Bowbells ad-
journed last Monday afternoon, af-
ter being in session two weeks, and
Judge Leighton and his stenog-
1apher returned to Minot Tuesday
morning. The case Of Isaac Lind
berg and David Lindbelg of Van
vile VS.. w. F. Barton, the trial of
which lasted for several days, went
to the jury Friday afternoon, and
after being out for several hours Il
verdict in favor of the defendant
was brought in.. In this case the
plaintiffs alleged that the defendant
had charged them usury On some
notes, and endeavored to collect
same. The amount involved was
about $1,000 or more. E. R. Sink
ler of Minot appeared for the plain
tiffs and Palda, Aaker & Greene for
the defendant.
.-s- The next case to be tried % was
that of c. A. Purdon vs. M. D. Drew,
and this was settled between the
parties after trial. Drew rented a
tract of land from Purdon for a
term Of years, and the agreement
was that the land at the expiration
of the lease be left In the same con-
dition it was when Drew took it
over. The land was plowed when
Mr.. Drew took 1t over, and part of
it was not plowed wien the lease
expired, so Mr.. Purdon sued for the
value of the p1owing that should
have been done. Drew brought in
q 1,iv f@,,o ~
than what the plowing did. H. A.
Hanson OF this city looked after the
interests Of Mr.. Drew, while the
plaintiff was represented by Attor-
ney Adams Of Lisbon.
Saturday afternoon the case of
John Engstrom VS.. Henry Nelson
and Nels A. Nelson was tried and
this was decided by the jury in ia
vor Of the defendants. It was al
legged in the complaint that the
Nelson's beat up Engstrom some
time last summer, and that az a re-
suit of this beating Engstrom suf-
fered considerable, and would prob
ably suffer permanent injury, fol-
wrich he asked $4,000. A num-
ber of witnesses were examined on
both sides, and the case went to the
jury at about $3.50 that evening.
Attorney M. o. Eide of Minot ap-
peared for the plaintiff and Attor-
rey Geo. A. McGee of Minot for the
defendant.
The case Of Thomas Hersom vs..
Chas. Nyren was dismissed after
the plaintiffs evidence was in.
Hersom in this case alleged that
the defendant had thrown some
green oat bundles into the formers
pasture while cutting grain, that
plaintiffs horses ate this oats in
such quantities that one of the
horses died. The value of the
horse was sued for. Attorney B.
l.. Wilson appeared for the plain
tiff, and Attorney c. H. Marshall
for the defendant
In the case of the state against
Amos Hudson ana Annie Hudson
of Portal it was proved by the state
that Mrs. Hudson sold intoxicating
livuor at the hotel belonging to the
defendants, and Judge Leighton
ordered the hotel closed for one
year. The place will be closed as
soon as the order is signed by the
court.
In the case of H. L. Lyon vs.. G.
w. Grinnell the facts were stipulat-
ed to the court anu same was decid-
ed in favor Of the plaintiff. In
this case Mr.. Lyon asked in his
complaint for an amount of about
$35 which he alleged was due him
as result of land DEAL. F. E.
Heckel appeared for the plaintiff.
and B. L. Wilson of Flaxton ap-
peared for the defendant.