December Term of Court

Progressing Rapidly In

Disposition of Calendar.

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MEMBERS PETIT JURY

REPORT MONDAY A.M.

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No Cause of Action In Baltrusch Case. Settlement In

Personal Injury Case.

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The calendar of civil actions is being rapidly depleted. Yesterday morning the Jury was sitting in the trial of case No. 27, B. Rovig vs. Chas. W. Durham, twenty-six cases having been disposed of since the members of the petit jury reported for duty at 10 o’clock Monday morning. There are fifty-two cases listed on the civil calendar. At this rate the present term of district court will be short. The case of Bernard N. Brokaw v B. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. was the second civil action tried.It consumed Tuesday and part of Wednesday, the jury retiring for deliberation at 11:30 Wednesday morning. The verdict returned at the opening of court Thursday morning was”no cause of action.” The plaintiff sued the railway company for $20,000 personal injury damages, claimed as the result of an accident near Milwaukee. Brokaw was a yard switchman, and it is alleged because of no light on a switch, he was injured about the back, the back of the neck and wrist. A settlement was arrived at Wednesday, shortly after court convened in the afternoon in the other personal-injury case listed on the calendar, that of William B. Maher vs. Chicago &North Western Railway Co. The amount of the settlement was $4,995. The first civil case tried was that of George H. Andrews vs. Alfred Baltrusch. The plaintiff claimed that Mr. Baltrusch did not return an oil tank and owed him certain funds. The total amount of the suit was $82. The jury entered upon their deliberations about 5 o’clock Monday afternoon and returned a verdict of “no cause of action” just before 6 o’clock. The following cases were reported as settled when called for trial: Roy Severns and Wm. Severns vs. S. A. Wooldrik; Otto Meyer vs. Erwin Moll;John A. Loeffelmacher vs. American Railway Express Co.; Hanska-Linden Store Co., vs. John Mikelson; Arthur Bresson vs. Edward F. Berkner; Johnson-Olson Grain Co. vs. Ed. F. Berkner; Katherina A. Prechtl vs. Amelia Belland and Louise Bodner. The cases of Carl Steinberg vs. George P. Kelley and that of the Michigan Central Railroad Co. vs. the EagleRoller Mill Co. were continued, while that of Lillian Shedlow vs. A. J. Groebner, et al, was continued. In the case of George W. Olsen vs. George I. Lodahl & Alexander R. Walsh, as Walsh-Lodahl Motor Co., the plaintiff not appearing, the court will file an order in favor of the defendant. The members of the petit jury reported for duty at 10 o’clock Monday morning. Mrs. Paul Bonderman, Linden township; Mrs. Ryan Frederickson, Cobden; K.B. Nelson, Eden township; Mrs. Nora Ouren, Hanska; A.J. Pietrus, Sleepy Eye and Wm. Schaeffer, Home township, were excused from jury duty by the court.

Pleads Guilty

Wm. Cook, Mulligan township farmer, indicted on a charge of illicitly manufacturing liquor, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. He pled guilty and will be sentenced by the court Monday morning at 9 o’clock. Rich. Raddatz and Paul Gutknecht, Linden township farmers, indicted upon two counts each for infraction of the of the liquor laws, were arraigned Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and Wednesday afternoon a the same hour plead “not guilty,’ to the charges.

Peter Feller, brought to New Ulm from Winona by Deputy Sheriff Wm. H. Gieseke Saturday, was arraigned Monday morning on a charge of non support. He plead guilty to the charge Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock.

Brown County Journal,

December 4, 1925

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