Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-11-22
COURT ORDERS
AUTO RETAINED
BY DEFENDANTS
Court Instructs Jury to Find
Against Pearl Miller in
Rose Car Case.

A district court jury. in comnllaaro
with instructions from Judge Il: II
Ewing, Monday found for the defend
ants in a claim and delivery action
brought by Pearl Miller against Il. J.
Reynolds and Sheriff Bob Gordon, who
seized a Studebaker automobile claimed
by the plaintiff as her property. Judge
Ewing sustained the motion Of counsel
for the defendants for a directed YER
dict.
The automobile was seized under a
writ Of attachment from Charles Il
Rose. She Immediately filed com
plant alleging that the machine was
her property. In the complaint, she
asked for the return of the machine,
or $500. and $3.50 damages. The
verdict in the case was returned Mon
day afternoon. a short time after court
had resumed.
Mccoy Given Verdict
Paul V. Mccoy. defendant in a con-
tract action brought by B. p. McNair
and l.. f. Rutherford, was given the
verdict returned Monday morning by
the jury. 1t was Q sealed verdict, the
Jury determining its finding Saturday
night. Mccoy was sued for approx
mately $4,000 on a guarantee he is
alleged to have given the plaintiff
when they became associated with him
in the now defuct Mccoy department
store.
Testimony in the note action Of Ma
tilda Lindsay against Clara Mccarthy
was completed Monday afternoon and
argument will be heard today CInes-
day. by Judge J. B. Leslie and jury,
Promissory notes, aggregating $4,000,
are the issue OF the action. The de-
PENDANT admits signing the paper, but
she claims that she attached her sigma
ture while irresponsible.
Continue Stepech Case
Owing to the fact that NJ. }. Ryan,
an important witness for the state,
cannot be present, the case of the state
against Tony Stepech, charging sale OF
intoxicating liquors, was continued
Monday on the motion of County At
torney Howard G. Bennett. The case
will be re set at the end of the calen-
dar. Ryan, a federal agent, is now in
Sheridan, Wyo., as a witness IN q muir
der trial. The Stepech case was sched-
uled to be tried today (Tuesday)
On stipulation between County At
torney Bennett and counsel for Steve
Matecko, charged with grand larceny,
the case was ordered continued. The
trial was on Tuesdays calendar Goun-
sci for the defendant promised County
Attorney Bennett that Matecko would
be taken before one of the justice
courts to enter a plea Of guilty to a
charge of petit larceny. Matecko Is
accused Of stealing and killing calf,
the value Of which was not sufficient
to warrant q grand larceny charge, it
was said at the county attorneys
office.
Continue City Cases
Nineteen appeals from police court
yerdicts, the majority of them involv--
ing defendants who were arrested and
fined for alleged offenses committed
during the city labor disturbance last
summer, were ordered continued for
the t4rm Monday. Actions vacated
from the calendar were the collection
action brought by L. NJ. Fishbaugh
against Lavera Fishbaugh, the fore
closure action brought by the Great
Falls Brick s. Tile company against
Charles Kline and others, and the fore
closure suit brought by Charles Kline
against W. A. Weigand and others.
Cases dismissed without prejudice
were the claim and delivery action
brought BY the Great Northern railway
against Robert L. Rowell, the CONVEX
sion action brought by the First Ma
tional bank Of Carter against the
Genou State bank and others, and the
justice case Of Mathew p. Flanagan
against Floyd Riach and others.