A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=30561 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: March 6 1915 Article Description: Court News Page 14 Article Text: Washington Post March 6, 1915 Court News Page 14 DISTRICT COURT NEWS William H. PLUMMER, manager of a restaurant in Pennsylvania avenue, who says he was injured some time ago by the explosion of a sprayer which he was using to exterminate pests, was awarded yesterday $2,000 damages from the West Disinfecting Company by a jury in circuit division 2, District Supreme Court, Justice GOULD presiding:. PLUMMER said that he procured the sprayer from the disinfecting company, which guaranteed it to be harmless. While he was using it there was an explosion and he was badly burned about the face, his injuries resulting in a malady called conjunctivitis. PLUMMER was represented by Attorneys D. W. BAKER and J. W. STAGGERS. Attorneys McLanahan & Burton and W. S. CULBERTSON appeared for the West Disinfecting Company. --- William R. SHANNON, who died February 15, stipulated in his will, made July 24, 1913, and offered yesterday for probate by W. M. GELLINGER, that his wife is to have no more of his estate than she is entitled to under the dower right law. The rest of the estate is to be held in trust by Attorney Conrad H. SYME, corporation counsel, for the life benefit of Thomas SMALLWOOD, a nephew of the testator. At the death of this beneficiary the remainder is to be shared by his children. Attorney SYME also is named executor. --- Herbert H. MARSHALL, a young white man of Virginia, who was arrested last January by the police of the District and later indicted on the charge of having shot Frank ECHOLS, colored, was acquitted yesterday by a jury in criminal division 1, District Supreme Court, Chief Justice COVINGTON presiding. MARSHALL's defense was that ECHOLS directed him to a place of questionable repute and while there attempted to rob him. He was defended by Attorney R. L. MILLER. --- William W. ARMSTRONG's will, dated June 3, 1908, was offered for probate yesterday by Attorney A. A. BIRNEY. He leaves $1,000 to Winifred R. REDWAY, on account of the friendship that existed between him and her father, and also on account of her father's kindness to the testator's deceased wife. Roscoe E. REDWAY is to have $200, and the rest of the estate goes to a half sister, Mary R. A. BOYD. Roscoe E. REDWAY is appointed executor. The testator died February 18. --- An exemplified copy of the will of Eugene A. CARR, of the United States army, was filed yesterday in the probate court. The testament was executed October 20, 1909, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The testator gives his three sabers and his elk horns to his wife, Mary P. M. CARR, and his son, Clark M. CARR, directing that the bequests are to pass to his grandsons, Eugene M. CARR and Clark M. CARR, jr. The testator's books, maps, pictures, and personal effects are to be shared by the wife and son, and to finally go to the grandsons. The wife is to receive the household effects and the remainder of the estate, and the wife and the son are named executrix and executor. --- A motion for a new trial for Clarence B. DEWELL, the Washington barracks soldier, convicted before Chief Justice COVINGTON of holding up and robbing two men, was filed yesterday by Attorneys Wilton J. LAMBERT and Frederick R. WHIPPLER. --- Cornelia T. LIMEBURNER, by her will, made August 27, 1912, leaves her estate in trust with Eva A. MARVIN for the benefit of her grandchildren, Charles F. MARVIN, Cornelia T. MARVIN, and Helen MARVIN. The testatrix died February 11. --- Maud A. DUBANT, an employe of the patent office, lost her suit for $10,000 from the Washington Railway and Electric Company for personal injuries, a jury in circuit division 2, District Supreme Court, Justice STAFFORD presiding, having returned a verdict in favor of the company. Miss DUBANT claimed that on October 31, 1913, she was injured at Ninth and G streets northwest by the premature starting of a car she was attempting to board. The company produced evidence to show that the conductor on the car had looked to see if all passengers were aboard and, the step being clear, gave the bell for the motorman to start; and that Miss DUBANT came around the rear end of the car at that moment, grasped the handle by the step, and tried to get on. The company was represented by Attorney George P. HOOVER, and the case for Miss DUBANT was tried by Attorneys W. W. MILLAN and Joseph R. FAGUE. --- Testimony that Stilson HUTCHINS, whose will, made in 1910, is under attack in the District Supreme Court, was a hard worker as late as 1905, was given yesterday before Justice ANDERSON and a jury by Walter Stilson HUTCHINS, the older son, who is defending the will. The witness declared that his father put in from four to five hours each day at the office. Lee HUTCHINS, the younger son, alleges that his father was not mentally competent in 1910 to execute a valid will. Mr. HUTCHINS, who has been on the witness stand two days, will be heard again next week. The direct examination is being conducted by Attorney R. Ross PERRY, of senior counsel, defending the will. The witness will be cross-examined by Attorney Frank J. HOGAN. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com