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PAGE FOUR MANDAN DAILY PIONEER, THURSDAY OCTOBER 1925 Mandan Daily Pioneer MANY CASES DECIDED BY SUPREME W N The Step-Child PUBLISHERS HANDED DECISIONS Subscription Rates COURT By mail, per year, in First and Second Zones $4.00 SUBJECTS By mail outside First and MANY Second Zones COVER Carrier in city, per 'ear -RULINGS Carrier in city, per month
(By Associated Press) LUMBER CO. LOSES In cases where building is erect ed on a solid foundation by man purchasing the land on contract it is Illegal for companies furnishing miterial for the structure to remove the ng from the property after it reverts to the original owner the supreme court held in the case of R S. Middlaton vs Dunham Lumber company which was appealed to the high court from the district court of Hettinger county Action of the lower court in granting an injunction preventing the lumber company from re moving the structure from the proparty was upheld.
ELEVEN JURY VERDICT Citing a previous decision in which verdicts returned by a vote of less than 12 members of a jury were held invalid, the supreme reversed a decision of the Eddy county dis trict court and remanded for a new trial the case of the National Cash Register company versus the Midway City Creamery company.
NOTE NOT PAYMENT Upholding a decision of the Ward county district court, the supreme court held that a promissory note given by a prospective stockholder in a bank in payment of stock could not. be considered as a payment for any part of the stock The decision was made in the case of L. R. Baird as receiver of the First Farmers Bank of Minot vs Torger Kilene sponsibility for ownership persons, the of supreme stock in living Baird banks as R. of L. the case held in Bank court State Clyde as receiver B. McMillan of the as executor of the by vs will C. of James Balfour, the district appealed court from defendant the question The county Burleigh estate of the or not whether was been had who person deceased could of bank the state in shareholder on assessment for an held liable be statutory super-added of account after fails the bank liability death where of the shareholder and the where claim was not filed or lowed in probate court
LIEN MAY BE PLURAL Action to foreclose mechanics be press tenant may lien ed against against a one co-tenant for work done on property held jointly, the supreme court held in the case of E A. Viker vs Frank E. Beggs and others, ap pealed by the defendants from the trict court of Traill county
ORD ER NEW CROSSING Constry tion by the Great Northern railroad of a new crossing in Ross township. Mountrail county, has been ordered by the state railroad board as the result of petition by the town ship ssioners that the present crossing be abandoned and a new one established. After a hearing the railroad board ordered the change made on the ground that the present cross ing is unnecessarily hazardous The order directs the Great Northern Rail road make provision for the new crossing in its budget for 1926 and to complete the work by June 15 01 next year