Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-06-14
HALLOCK LOSES
AGAINST TUCKER
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following array Of COUNSEL for the
plaintiff, James b, Douoway and Leroy
c, Russell Of MddlebuTy and Rufus L,
Brown Of Burlington and for the de-
iiendant, Charles ! Button and Allen X,
Sturtevant OF Middlebury,
The main testimony for the plain
tin was completed early Tuesday after
noon, when the evidence for the de-
Tense was opened up Mr. llallock had
been in the witness box In all more
than half Of the four days already tax
en- up with the trial,
There was much contradiction, For
instance Miss Della Tucker daugh-
ter Of the defendant and who is the
leading figure in the breach Of promise
case against Tucker which is scheduled
10 follow, swore that on one occasion
she paid Hallock in behalf Of her father
$500 in bills Mrs, Ida Duprey then
unmarried, and Miss Eva Tucker swore
that they counted the money and saw
Della Tucker pass II over TO Hallock
Mr. Hallock had previously swore that
Della Tucker never paid him $500 or
any other sum OF money on any ac-
count, This was only one OF the points
on which the testimony for the two par
ties was widely and seriously at vari-
ance
Wednesday was the all.Tucker day in
the case With the exception OF short
interval recall OF Dan Farley, friend
Of both parties but witness for Tucker,
the fuckers had the witness stand all
10 themselves, Mrs, Sadie Tucker wife
OF the defendant who testified for
short time Tuesday afternoon, was on
the stand all the forenoon and Carson
Tucker, the l6.year.old son for whose
work for Hallock the defendant claimed
a mans wages, came next, with de-
PENDANT Tucker himself rounding out
the day. Mrs. Tucker was an interest
ing witness and explained that many OF
the items, especially beef, pork and 9th
er farm products furnished by Hallock
and charged up by him, were gifts TO
the family by way Of return for iavors
to the plaintiff Carson and Farley
swore to having on several occasions
seen Mr., Tucker make cash payments
to Mr. Hallock, the receipt Of which
payments Hallock had stoutly denied,
and Tucker asserted that many Of the
checks which Halock had charged
against him were never used in pay
ment for grain and other supplies pur-
chased by him for Hallock at Hallocks
request and as Hallock's agent.
After a short time spent in rebutted
testimony Thursday morning, the de-
Tense rested their case and the argu-
ments to the jury were begun, the coun-
sci for each side being limited by court
to an hour and a half Of talking, Mr.
Donoway opened the case for the plain
tiff at 10 o'clock and used up an hour in
his plea, He was followed by Judge
Button for the defense, who took up the
rest of the time until the noon recess
Mr.. Sturtevant closed the argument
for Tucker at the afternoon session and
Mr.. Brown performed a similar service
for Hallock, finishing at $50 o'clock
Judge Fish gave the case to the jury
in a charge of 80 minutes duration, APP
pointing as their foreman Mr. Bosworth
of Bristol and the jury at once retired
to consider the verdict, in charge of
Deputy Sheriff Stephen Noonan of
Ferrisburgh
After this jury had gone out a start
was made towards empaneling jury to
sit in the next case set for trial, which is
entitled Della Tucker by her next
friend, Edward Tucker, VS. William p
Hallock and the case involves the same
parties as appeared in the preceding
one, Edward Tucker being the defen-
dant in that case and the nominal
plaintiff in this one while the actual
plaintiff is his daughter, Della, and the
defendant the same Hallock who was
the plaintiff in the other case Miss
Tucker was II years old on the 22d
day of last April and Mr. Hallock owns
up to being 80. She sues him for an
alleged breach of promise of marriage
and puts the amount of financial dam
age to her affections at $4,000.
In consequence of shortage in the
supply of jury material, an extra batch
of ID men were summoned on Wednes-
day by Sheriff Fish to appear here
yesterday for service, and this number,
together with the remainder of the or
iginal panel, was exhausted last night
so that the Court directed the Sheriff
to summon another half dozen men
from the vcinage to be on hand this
morning.
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