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Will Still Fight The Suit

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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íáix years ago uscar westtan, ot ïpsilanti, kept a hotel at Belleville. As lis bar was being scrubbed onfc one Sunday morning by a oolored man named Bibbins, a man named Siver witli whom Bibbins bad had some ;rouble, stepped up and shot Bibbins n the chesfc for which he was sen;enoed to six years in Jackson. Mrs. Siver then instituted snit against Mr. Westfall for damagea claiming that jer husband had had something to drink in the bar, and obtained a verdict for $1,100. Mr. Westfall had in the meantime deeded a farm to his wife 'or ■which it was proven she gave a valnable consideration and this prevented a levy on the property. On Friday Jndge Carpenter, of Wayne county, ordered the deed set aside, the property transferred back to Mr. Westfall, and Capt. Allen appointed receiver to take oharge of the property. Mr. Wesfcfall will carry the case to the supreme court saying: "It is hard wheu you know ;hat yon are in no way to blame that snch a judgment shonld be rendered and as I have fonght it thus far I may as well go all the way. ' '

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News