County Court and Sessions

New York, 1895

Judge Garretson will begin the March term of the County Court and Court of Sessions at Long Island City on Monday. The Grand Jury will be charged at the opening of the court. The grand jurors drawn from Jamaica are William E. Clark, Charles E. Twombly, James C. Hendrickson, William B. Mills, and William McCrum. The calendar of civil cases is as follows:

Anderson vs Phillips, Barrett vs Smith, Gering vs Marr, Houser vs Klinker, Hawkins and Hawkins vs Freeman and Riley, Jones vs Vinque, Loux vs Duell, Lang vs Hagner, Obery vs The Long Island railroad company, Purdy vs Schalkenbach, Randles vs Youngs, Reinheimer vs Rachor, Sahr vs Scholle, Stahl vs Eller, Schmand vs Schalkenbach, Smith vs Smith, Suhr vs Hoerring, Solly vs Graur, The People of the State of New York vs Dion, Wyckoff as Overseer vs Leonardi, Whitins vs Lichtenstein, Weeks vs Pacher, White vs Jacob & Sons.


To Sell Out the Association

The annual meeting of the Amityville agricultural fair and driving park association was held Thursday. The matter of dissolving the association was talked over and it was almost unanimously agreed to sell out the association's effects, The proceeds to be used in paying the debts.


Edward Freel Gets $82,000

Edward Freel has won his mandamus case against the city of Brooklyn. Justice Gaynor handed down a decision Monday in which Freel is awarded $82,000, the amount sued for. In 1893 Freel completed the Millburn reservoir under the supervision of Robert Van Buren, Chief Engineer of the city. The work was accepted by the proper authorities, but the reservoir failed to hold water, and the Comptroller refused to pay the contractor the $112,000 due him.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 1.