Goes Over The Term

GOES OVER THE TERM

The Accident Happened At Another Spot.

CITY PAYS NO DAMAGES.

Until After the Next Term of the Circuit Court.

A Ypsilanti Slander Case is Now on Trial. -$75 Damages Awarded to Mrs. Sprague.-Two Cases Discontinued.

The city will not be obliged to pay any sidewalk damages this year, as both the cases against it have been put over the term. And if the city is eventually mulcted, it will come out of next year's taxes.

The jury in the suit of Nicholas Miller vs. the city of Ann Arbor, was drawn. The first witness developed the fact that the scene of the accident on Miller ave., was located about 75 feet west of where the declaration alleged it had occurred. This compelled the plaintiff to amend his declaration and put the case over until the next term of the circuit court, when it and the Corey case, for damages received on a William st. walk, will probably be tried.

The jury in the suit of Mrs. Sprague vs. Dusbibber et al., after being out two hours brought in a verdict of $75 for the plaintiff.

The suit of John B. Purdy vs. Garry Osborn was discontinued without costs, and the bill in John B. Purdy vs. Garry Osborn and Fred Jerry was dismissed without costs. These were petty suits from justice court.

The time for filing a bill of exceptions in the case of Sarah L. Wallace vs. the Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti R. R. , was extended 30 days.

The case between Peter W. Shute vs. Norman B. Trim is now on trial. This is another one of the Ypsilanti cases with which this term of court seems to be prolific. It is a slander case. The plaintiff 's wife had given the defendant a chattel mortgage and the defendant, who claims to have received a telephone from Detroit that the plaintiff was about to remove the goods, interviewed him about it and in the conversation, it is claimed, used the word "thief." Hence the suit. Capt. E. P. Allen, who was called in as a peacemaker, was on the witness stand this morning and Mr. Sawyer delighted in cross-examining him. He asked a number of questions of a legal nature and Judge Kinne suggested that before Capt. Allen answered them he should be paid a retainer.