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The Indianapolis Daily Sentinel
Monday, January 5, 1885

                  COURT-HOUSE LOCALS
              
        A Fall from a Scaffold Causes a $5,000
                     Damage Suit.
                     
          Jennie Baughman Refused a Divorce
            - Trouble in the Glenn Family
            
        Saturday was the last day of the Circuit Court.
      Judge Ayres goes to Hendricks County to hold a
      four weeks' term.
      
        In the Denny-Bush road case the jury has found
      that the road was a necessity and assessed damages
      at $480 in favor of Bush.
      
        Saturday was the last day of the jury term of the
      Criminal Court. A number of cases were called, some
      bonds were removed, and others were declared for-
      feited.
        
        John H. Zenner has filed suit against Alva C. May
      to collect a note for $1,313 made last month. Demand
      $1,500. Affidavit in attachment was also filed with
      the complaint.
      
        A verdict for $6,666.25 for the plaintiffs was
      returned by the Federal Court Jury Saturday morning
      in the damage and replevin suit of Levi Scott & Co.
      against Marshal Foster, Hood, Bonbright & Co., of
      Philadelphia, and others. The marshal levied upon
      the plaintiffs' stock of goods recently to satisfy
      claims held by creditors. Scott & Co will now get
      possession of the same.
        
        Judge Ayres has refused to grant a divorce to
      Jennie L. Baughman from Jacob A. Baughman. The proof
      was to the effect that Jacob failed to make provision
      and had been guilty of cruel treatment. The court
      thought that hasty language once used did not con-
      stitute sufficient evidence of cruelty and it was
      plain that the defendant had made the best provision
      he was able to make.
      
        Judge Taylor Saturday heard the evidence in the
      divorce suit of Evaline Glenn vs. Liberty Glenn.
      These are colored people and were formerly slaves
      in North Carolina, where they were married. After
      the war ended they were again married. In 1881
      Liberty whipped her severely for which reason she
      left him. Soon after that Evaline went to Virgina
      and then came to this city. A year ago Liberty also
      came here. Finally their troubles became more than
      they were able to bear and she filed this suit for
      divorce. Liberty denied part of the charges, and
      justified the balance by alleging adultery on the
      part of his wife. Judge Taylor took the case under
      advisement.
      
        Suit for damages was filed Saturday in the Super-
      ior Court against Henry B. Sherman by John S. Hamil-
      ton, the complaint concluding with a demand for
      $5,000. The plaintiff alleges that on the 4th of
      last month Sherman employed Hamilton to do some
      calsomining in the Denison Hotel, agreeing to pay
      him $1.25 per day. Defendant furnished some step-
      ladders, which were old and weak, for the purpose
      of erecting the scaffold. Plaintiff called atten-
      tion to the weakness of the ladders, but was ordered
      to used them. After the scaffold had been erected,
      he mounted it and it broke down, throwing hi to the
      floor, a distance of eighteen feet, and upon part
      of the heating apparatus. He was badly injured, and
      claims that he is permanently hurt.
      
        The Thomas Harrison guardianship trouble came up
      again in the Circuit Court Saturday. The old man
      and his wife were before the court complaining that
      they were not furnished enough money by the old
      gentleman's guardian to live on comfortably. They
      are allowed $10 per week, besides the supply of
      fuel. This is for food, as they have been abundantly
      supplied with clothing, and they have no house rent
      to pay. Harrison was put on the stand, but he was
      not able to specify what was wanted in a satis-
      factory manner. His wife was then put on the stand
      and she was even a greater failure than Harrison.
      Finally they were dismissed, and it was learned
      that the guardian of the old gentleman, who, by
      the way, is his son, purchased for him $40 worth
      of clothes last summer, and the old people are
      abundantly supplied with all they need.
      
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