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Vevay Reveille – 23 Jan 1879 – Page 4, Column 2

LAW REPORT.

Circuit Court—Judge Berkshire.

The following cases have been disposed of:

John J. Bosaw vs. Mary Bosaw—for divorce; not granted.

State vs. Harry Schmeid—perjury; tried by jury, and acquitted.

John W. Dodd vs. Pleasant Township School Trustee—to enforce mechanic’s lien; finding for the plaintiff. (The matter was afterwards fully settled by compromise.)

John W. Reed vs. Geo. W. Tilley—civil action; verdict for plaintiff, $60 and costs.

Younger Picket vs. John H. Miller et al—to recover real estate; judgment for plaintiff.

Day Lester vs. John Lester—petition to be released as surety on Executor’s bond; granted.

The National Bank of Rising Sun vs. Thos. Higham and others—on note; default and judgment for $899.22.

George W. Herbert and others vs. Josiah and Experience Herbert—to quiet title to real estate; judgment for plaintiff—possession given and 1 cent damage assessed against defendant.

Abigail C. Jackson and others vs. Philander S. Sage, Henry J. Cole, Wm. A. Cross, and others—to enforce vendor’s lien; finding for plaintiffs as against defendant Cross, deciding that plaintiffs should have nine-tenths of the property in dispute, and Cross one-tenth.

Charles A. Robinson vs. Ephraim Williamson—appeal from Justice of the Peace, is being tried as we go to press.