Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-07-14
LEGAL ACTIONS
ACCOMMODATING
Various Cases Entered on Docket
for County Court
Geo. +. Gregory Is Sued for $4,000 on
NOtes-ReviIO Howard Will Contested
BY Several Relatives

NOtes-ReviIo Howard Will Contested
by Several Relatives
Since the last county court docket was
issued q number of actions have been
brought in Windham county court and the
papers filed in the Office of the county
clerk, for the September term. Some of
them have to do with comparatively small
Matters but some are of general interest
One of the important suits is that Of
Frederick l.. Houghton and the Brattle-
boro Trust Co., the latter the executor of
the will of the late Arthur Il. Clapp
against George +. Gregory of Dummcr-
ston, former manager of the Purebred
Live Stock Sales Co. This is n suit to
recover $4,000 and is brought through
the office of Attorney II. w. Gibson. The
action is on notes for money loaned.
Archie W. Phelps of Marlboro sues
William Akley of Halifax for 81 900
through the Office of Barber, Barber q
Miller. This is suit to recover for
services rendered, board, storage of
goods, etc.
An appeal from the allowance of the
will of Revilo Howard of Jamaica by the
probate court of Bellows Falls has been
filed George Gleason of Jamaica is spc-
cial administrator. The contestants are
the following relatives of Mr. Howard /:
Mrs. Laura Weatherhead, niece Fred
Pierce, nephew; Laura s. Marsh, sister /;
John l.. Howard. brother; Ernest NJ.
Howard, nephew: and G. F. Howard.
nephew. They claim that the testator
was not of sound and disposing mind and
memory and that he was unduly in
fluenced so that he did not will them
their just share of the estate.
Mr.. Howard willed $4,000 to his
nephew, Benjamin f. Howard; $500
each to three nephews, Fred T., Frank A.
ard Delton w. Howard to Ella A.
sob G.
many years. and to Benjamin f. Howard
his house and lot. furniture and furnish
ings in equal shares 5000 each to grand
sons of Ella A. Ryder-Chares II. White,
Frederick NJ. White, Leonard G. White.
William NJ. White, John X. White and
Enroll +. White. The residue is given to
Bcninmin f. Howard, whom he named
as executor. Attorney John n. Harvey is
counsel for the prepayment. Benjamin +.
Howard, and Attorney Frank Il. Barber
| Is counsel for the contestants.
The divorce docket also contains some
new cases.
George II. Pixley of Brattleboro asks
divorce from Frances (ClifD Pxley,
whom he married Oct. 2S, 1909. They
lived together until March /. 1920 lie
alleges statutory grounds. also intolerable
| severity and desertion. He SAYS that ON
March Q, 1920. Mrs. pixley forcibly took
from his custody their minor child and
! left BrattlebOro. lie located her in
Greenfield, Mass, in August or Septem-
Der of that year, and he asserts that her
treatment of the child was such that the
latter was taken from her by the Massa
chusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children and returned to his
custody. He has had the child since and
on his representation that his wife and
friends had threatened to again take the
child and that he was afraid the child
would be kidnapped Judge Stanley G. Will
son has issued restraining order against
Mrs Pixlcy. Barber, Barber & Miller
are counsel for the petitioners.
Angelina Nj. UIakey) Austin of Rock
! ngham seeks a divorce from Lewis B.
Austin of Grafton. where they were mar
ried Dec. y, 1918. They lived in Lon
dondcrry. Wilmington. Brattleboro. Put
ney, Ludlow, Mount Holly and Rutland.
Mrs. Austin claims that her husband
treated her with intolerable severity and
neg lected to furnish suitable clothing and
maintenance for her. They lived to-
gether until Jan. 2S, 1922. She asks TO
| be permitted to resume her maiden name.
Attorney George a. Weston of Bellows
Falls is her COUNSEL
Alice l.. Nolan of Brattlcboro has
filed petition against Charles 4. Nolan
now of Bennington for divorce on the
grounds of desertion, intolerable severity.
neglect and refusal to support They
were married in burlington March II,
| l?lS, and Mrs. Nolan alleges that her
husband treated her with intolerable SO.
verify the first of the following month.
she says he deserted her Nov. IL. 1920.
! The petitioners counsel is ATTORNEY
Charles S. Chase.