Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-28
SLIGHT DEFECT
IN PRESENTATION
CASE CONTINUED

WHICH was DelnS trled on WedneS-
day was continued on Thursday
morning when the cross examination
of Mr.. Woodman was made by the
PLAINTIFFS attorney, Amos X. Butler
of Butler and Butler. Mr. Woodman
was the first witness in the defense
in this case in which the controversy
is in regard to whether or not Mr..
Woodman. when he sold the farm to
Mr.. Wotton, misrepresented the
amount of hay cut on the farm on
the season of 1920 previous to the
time of the purchase in the spring of
1921.
Other witnesses for the defense
which was represented by Cover and
Shumway, with Mr.. Cover making
the cross examination of the plain
tiff's witnesses and Mr.. Shumway
conducting the testimony of the de-
Tense, were Fred Woodman. a son of
the defendant, who stated that he
owned some land near his fathers
farm at the time of sale to Mr.. Wot-
ton. He stated that he sold the hay
from his field standing but that
eight loads from piece of land were
put into his fathers barn on the place
he sold Wotton the summer before
he sold to Mr.. Wotton and that he
had owned the place four or five
! years.
The next witness called by Mr..
Shumway was Clair Woodman the
other son of the defendant. He said
that in 1920 he went to the railroad
station to meet man whom Mr..
Smith, manager for the Strout
agency at Newport was sending to
Hartland to look at the Woodman
farm which was listed for sale in
that agency of meeting the man who
was Mr.. Wotton and of his coming
with him to his fathers farm and all
going into the house to get warm of
looking over the house, the field and
going to the barn and looking over
the personal property. He told about
certain conversation which he heard
between his father and Mr.. Wotton.
He said that at the time of the pur-
chase he owned a piece of land but
that the hay on it the summer before
the place was sold by his father to
Mr.. Wotton was cut at the shares
by Mr.. Magoon and that his share
amounted to eight loads and he es-
timated that there was perhaps ton
to a load. In cross examination he
said that he owned the place about
four years but that he had sold It the
same spring that his father sold his
farm.
Stanley Hanson was the fourth
witness and he said that his farm
joined the Woodman farm on the
north and that he had lived there 10
years. When asked how much hay
the Woodman farm cut he said when
Mr.. Woodnan owned 1t he thought 1t
cut 60 to IS tons and he thought that
Mr.. Woodman had about eight or
nine acres ploughed and that Mr.
Wotton had about eight or ten acres
more ploughed than Mr.. Wotton. He
said that he bought the hay of one
of the Woodman boys and none of it
was hauled into the Woodman barn.
The fifth witness called was Will
liam Magoon of st. Adams who re-
sides about mile and a half south
of the Woodman place. He stated
that he put the hay on the Clair
Woodman place at the shares in the
summer Of 1920 and that his share
was IL load sand that Clair Wood
mans was eight loads.
The last witness for the defense
was Mrs. Woodman who related a
conversation between herself and
Mr.. Wotton at one time when he
called at her home in the spring of
1922. When Mr. Wotton asked her if
she liked her new home. or If she
ever got so homesick there. that she
wanted to buy back the farm sold to
Mr.. Wotton. She said that she told
him that Mr. Woodman had now put
his money into that place and she
must be contended there. She asked
Mr.. Wotton how he was getting on
and he said. mot very WELL" and she
asked him if he We're dissatisfied and
he said, mo, it was a good farm and
a good enough home for any one"
but that his people were going to
leave. the farm. She said she was
sorry for him.
Before beginning to argue the case
Mr. Cover offered six exhibits. the
first was an agreement between Mr..
Woodman and Mr.. Wotton of the
Of Mr.. Wotton and admitted without
objection of Mr. Butler: the second.
the mortgage with admitted sigma
ture of Mr.. Wotton and admitted
without objection of Mr.. Butler; the
third was a list of the farm for sale
by Mr.. Wotton dated Sept. IL, 1921,
which Mr.. Cover claimed was con-
Trajectory to Mr.. Wotton's testimony.
This was objected to by Mr.. Butler
and which Judge Philbrook declined
to admit as its date was later than
the transaction.
Mr.. Cover offered three other ex-
hibits and Mr.. Butler removed his OBJ
lection from the third and said that
everything Cover had to offer might
be admitted. Mr.. Cover began his
argument at 11.30. Before Mr.. Cover
began his argument Mr.. Butler called
Mr.. Wotton IN rebuttal and Mr.. Wot-
ton said that he wished to say that
when they had the talk about the hay
in the barn at the time of the pur-
chase he was trying to find out how