The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-12-01
CIRCUIT COURT

motion for a new trial in the case
of the Commonwealth VS.. Robert
Link. The case will now be taken
to the Court of Appeals. Link was
placed under arrest several weeks
ago as the result of search of his
place made by Sheriff Collier and
deputies, in which several bottles of
moonshine liquor were found. The
case was tried in the Bourbon
County Court before Judge George
Batterton, and resulted in Link be-
ing given the minimum penalty, a
fine of 500 and a thirty-days' Jail
sentence. Through his attorney,
Raymond Cornell, Link took an ap-
peal to the Bourbon Circuit Court,
where he was given a fine of $500
and a jail sentence of thirty days.
A motion was then made for a new
trial, which Judge Dedman denied.
Injunction suits were filed in the
Circuit Court Tuesday by the Bour-
bon-Agricultural Bank and Trust
Co., the Farmers & Traders Bank,
First National Bank. Peoples De-
post Bank & Trust Co., of Paris,
and the Deposit Bank, of North Mid
dletown, to enjoin Sheriff M.
Peale Collier and deputies from
collecting from them any more taxes
than on their real estate, and any
thing in excess of six per cent. of
their remaining property, the banks
claiming taxation in excess of this
results in the banks paying more
than other citizens are required to
pay. The Bankers Association of
Kentucky has inaugurated a general
movement in an effort to prevent
what the banks claim is a distinc-
ton against them under the tax
laws, and many such injunction
suits are being filed very generally
by the banks over the State of
Kentucky.
The injunction suits ask that the
Sheriff be restrained from collecting
more than the aforementioned
taxes from the banks until the
Court could decide the question
raised by the banks. The State and
county was represented by Judge
George Batterton, and County At
torney Cline, and the banks by
Attorneys Talbot & Whitley, E. M.
Dickson and Denis Dundon.
The time of the Court was taken
up Wednesday in securing a jury in
the case of Charles Morrison, and
his son, Isaac Morrison, of Cynthi-
ant. against DR.. Chas. Daugherty, of
Paris, in which each of the plaintiffs
seek to recover $4,000 damages
alleged to have been sustained
through the amputation of the
younger Morrison's foot by DR..
following an accident
sustained by young Morrison in the
Louisville & Nashville railroad
yards in Paris. It was alleged
that young Morrison, in company
with another boy, rode from Gym
thiana to Paris on freight train
and alighted in the railroad. yards
here. In endeavoring to get on the
train with the intention of going to
the Morrison boy fell
beneath a car and his left foot was
crushed. He was taken to the
Massie Memorial Hospital, in this
city, and DR.. Daugherty, as the L.
& N. local physician, was called,
who amputated the foot. The
plaintiffs claim that the opera
ton was done without their con-
sent, and was unnecessary. DR..
Daugherty claimed that the ampu-
tation was necessary in order to
save the boys life and that it was
necessary to perform it at once
The two suits were tried jointly,
the plaintiffs being represented by
Chester N. Jewett, of Cynthiana.
and Oscar T. Hinton, of Paris. while
DR.. Daugherty was represented by
Talbot & Whitley, of Paris.
Testimony in the case occupied
Wednesday afternoon, and yester-
day morning, and after arguments
the case was given to the jury at
three o'clock. The jury after being
in session about two hours, came
in with a verdict in favor of the
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