A Big Docket

The October terra of the Circuit Court which will (,'onveno next Monday will have an unusual amount of work before it. The docket whieh will be out in a day oí' so will contaiu one hundred and thirty cases, as oompared with only ninety-eight last term. The flrsttwenty-one cases are on the criminal docket. the first three being for the crime of arsen. The defendants are Cuy Ier J. Barton, Samuel Graham, and Chas. M. Walker. There ai'e also under the head of criminal cases, six for violation of liquor law, three for bastardy, one for rape, and two for adultery. Under this head also comes the case of the people versus Paul G. Sukey. Among the other causes we find eleven divorce cases. The lawyers will have a busy time of it. At least some of them will. We find the various attornies connected with cases as follows: M. J. Lehman 31, J. P. Lawrence 22, Frank E. Jones 21. A. J. Sawyer 19, O. E. Butterfield 19, t'. H. Kline 17, John P. Kirk 14, B. M. Thompson 10, W. D. Harritnan 10, K B. NorriB 9, M. J. ('avanaugh 8, D. Cratner 7, Arthur Brown 7, O. W. TurnBull 6, Seth C. Randall, 20 a3 Pros. Atty. and 6 civil suits, T. I), Kearney 5, .T. W. Bennett ó. N. D. Corbin l.One of the most interesting cases that will come up wiil be that of P. J. Lehman vs. the Lake Shore railroad company. Last spring, Wm. Uehfuss hhipped to Mr. Lehman from Manchester via the L. S. &. M. S. railroad and the Ann Arbor road two packages consisting of a five gallon jar of lard anj six gallon cask of vvine. The lard reached its destination safely in due time. The wine, however, failed to.put in an sppearance in Ann Arbor. After waiting several weeks Mr. Lehraan beíran to make inquirios, lio wanted the wine. The usual amount of red tape was' gone through with but no wine could be discovered. It could be traced as far as Pittsfield Junction where the two roads use the same depot and one agent acts for both road?. The agent, who has since been disoharged declares that the wine was received by him and placed in a freight car coming to Ann Arbor and the car duly sealed. But it never reached this place. A careful investigation has shown pretty conclusively that the joint agent at Pittsfield Junction drank the wine. New the cuestión to decide is who is to stand the loss. To settle this it must be decided whether the agent drank the wine while acting in the capacity of an agent of the Ann Arbor road, or of the Lake Shore road, or whether as agent of the Ann Arbor road ho drank the wine while Btül inthepossessionof the Lake Shore, or whether he had transferred the wine to the possession of the Ann Arbor road and then as agent of the Lake Shore ioad he surrounded the contents of that cask of ten year old wine, or whether üs a Lake Shore employee he drank the wine before it had been delivered to the other road, or whether as agent of the Ann Arbor road he had received the wine from himself as agent of the Lake Shore and then as agent of the Ann Arbor road and with the wine in the possession of the latter road it had mysteriously disappeared. Here is a question that will puzzle some of the attornies. We think that it would even puzzle the Adi ian Press man.