District Court

REGULAR TERM.

HON. JOHN F. DILLON, Judge.

IRA M. GIFFORD, Clerk.

TUESDAY, February 18.

Court opened at 9 o’clock A. M.  The jury, in the case of Mead & Co. vs. Leonard, which was submitted last night, brought in a verdict for plaintiffs, and assessed their damages at one cent.  The plaintiffs moved for a new trial.

J. W. Churchill vs. T. C. Eads, jury trial.  This was an action on a promissory note, as a defence to which the defendant pleaded a breach of warranty, on a span of horses sold by J. J. Walley to defendant, in payment for which Eads took up a chattel mortgage on said horses from Halley to Churchill, and in payment gave his own note and chattel mortgage to Churchill.  The case was submitted to the jury at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. – Grant & Smith for plaintiff; T. C. Campbell for defendant.

The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

W. B. Dixon vs. J. W. Johnson.  Trial by Jury.  Plaintiff claims the sum of $400 damages for the non-compliance of defendant with the covenants of  a certain contract, which, defendant, in consideration of a lease of certain lands from plaintiff, agreed to perform.  Davison & True for plaintiff; J. N. Rogers for defendant.  The testimony was not closed to-night.

Court adjourned at 6 o’clock p.m., till 9 o’clock to-morrow morning.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 1