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In The Circuit Court

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
February
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the Circuit Court.

Pleas and Appearances Entered by Various Attorneys.

In the circuit court in the case of Ida Gollnick, vs. the city of Ann Arbor, a default was entered Saturday evening on behalf of the plaintiff's by her attorneys Lehman Bros. & Stivers. This morning City Attorney O. E. Butterfield filed his plea. He informs the Argus that he did not receive the declaration in the case from City Clerk Mills until Thursday last. He has an understanding with Lehman Bros. & Stivers that the default will be set aside at the next term of court.

In the case of Mary J. Tubbs, of the village of Dexter, against Harmon Higgins, tried before Justice Duffy, the jury finding no cause of action, the justices return to the appeal has been filed. This was the case in which Mrs. Tubbs as assignee of her husband, a drayman, sued a lot of Dexter merchants. In this case her bill of particulars claims paid for freight $132.10 drayage $33.40 and balance on a note signed by John Costello as agent for Mrs. Higgins $25 making a total of $180.59.

In the case of Joseph C. Demosh, of Ypsilanti, vs. the Michigan Telephone Co., the appearance of the defendant has been entered by Wells, Angell, Boynton & McMillen, of Detroit. The plaintiffs attorney is Lee Brown. The case is brought for alleged injury by a wire frightening and scaring the plaintiffs horses.

An appeal from the order of the probate court allowing the will of Admiral D. Camp has been filed. W.D. Harriman appeared for the proponent.

Leander D. Allen, of Dexter, by his attorneys, J.T. Honey and A.J. Sawyer, asks that Daniel E. Hoey pay $5,000 damages for pounding him with his fists Feb. 6 and knocking out three front teeth.

Margaret C. Griffin Holly, of Detroit, by her attorney, Arthur Brown, asks that an old mortgage of $1,500 given Feb. 23, 1857, by John Post to David A. Post be discharged. She claims nothing has been paid on the mortgage for 25 years.