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_~The matter of the petition of James A. Dunn, Administrator, I to sell lands, has been continued. The jury in the case of Null lws. Cobb (the celebrated € 2 case) returned a verdict for defendant. —1— Albert Underwood has been “granted a divorce from Alice Un derwood, on the plea of abandon nment. _ The case of Homer Hubbard ,vs. the Consolidated Stone Co., for damages, from Monroe coun ty, has been continued. a The case of William E. Woods vg. the Consolidated Stone Co., for damages, from Monroe coun ty, has been continued at plain tiff's expense. The case of the Miller Math ews Co. vs. Milton D. Wells et al., and Hancock vs. some, from Monroe, will probably be venued to Owen county. 1 The ejectment case of Stucker vs. Stout, venued here from Orange county, has been contin ued on account of illness of some of the parties concerned. 1 The bastardy case of Lieu Etta White vs. Frank Reynolds has been compromised, the plaintiff receiving € 50. The parties are from near Fayetteville. A struck jury for the case of William Staggs vs. the Consoli dated Stone Co. was selected Tuesday forenoon. The case will come up next Tuesday. Nettie Owing was granted a divorce from James L. Owing. The parties are from Pleasant Run township. Some of the al legations in this matter were rather salty, as The case of Lewis Null vs Caleb Cobb, appealed from A Justice’s Court at Avoca, was on trial Monday. It involves a claim for 62 slieged to be owing the plaintiff for services rendered. In the case of the City of Bed ford vs. Frank Dorsett, appealed to Circuit Court by the latter, and taken under advisement at the last term, Judge Miers has rendered a decision in favor of Dorsett, throwing costs on the city. a The jury in the case of John J. O’Brien vs. the Salem Bedford Stone Co., for damages came in at,9 o’clock p. m., Nov. 28, with a verdict for plaintiff, and damages in the sum of ¢4,750.00. An appeal will probably be ‘taken by the stone company. 5 The case of Dr. J. O. Bullson vs. Collin McKinney, the grocer, for an amount of rent money alleged to be due by the use of the Stillson store room on the east side of the square, growing out of a dispute over the terms of lease, was on trial Satursday. ot The case of Bessie Richard son, the little girl who had sever al fingers blown off while play ing with a dynamite primer, against Labrey Haffey, the Mitchell gravel*road contractors who it is alleged, carelessly left the dangerous primer lying in the road, was on trial Tuesday afternoon, before the regular jury paces. Following is the struck jury selected to try the case of Will iam Staggs vs. the Consolidated Stone Co., for $40,000 damages, from Monroe county, next Tues day: Wesley Denniston, Lovell Hert, James M. Roberts, Edward Moore, Ellis Armstrong, Canaan Williams, D. H. Hinshaw, Jack son Barton, Abraham Ewing, Ed ward Eversole, Jonathan Wright, Joe A. Burton, Henry C. True blood, Zachariah Wright, Alex ander Adamson, Smith Wilcox. The case of Marion School Township vs. the estate of W. H. Tow was on trial Saturday. Tow was Trustee of Marion, and when he died was about $3,200 in default. He left an estate, against which there are many claims. If the amount in default cannot be made a preferred claim against his estate, the amount lacking to make the deficiency will come out of the estates of his bondsmen, Phipps and Keane, both of whom have died since the bond was made. An effort was made this week to compromise the damage suit of William D. Staggs vs. the Consol idated Stone Co., for 40,000. Stages lost both legs by an acci dent at Bloomington. He was offered 7,000, the company to pay doctors’ bills and Court ex penses, and was willing to ac cept. An accident insurance company was to bear half the toss, but a disagreement occur red between the Consolidated Co. and the latter which caused the compromise to be declared off. The County Clerk is issuing sub poeras for the trial Tuesday, out it will probably take place. . The case of Nannie E. Fergus on vs. Zachariah T. Ferguson, for divorce and alimony, from Orange county, begins this forenoon. Plaintiff alleges that soon after her marriage to defendant he became insanely jealous of her, and not only ac cused her openly of unchastity, ed employed men to skulk house during his ab pose peny to watch her macreneat The espionage became ‘unbeara ble, hence the application. Fer guson was a widower bet his meet ally antif #, who waa ane eplaster; ‘and he penis to bales as ton little bit of poperty. “Mearty 50 witnesses the case!
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Bedford Mail
Bedford, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 06, 1895
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