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Four Cases Reversed By Supreme Tribunal Four reversals and one affirmation are contained in decisions handed Friday by the North Dakota supreme court. Eben Chaffee, convicted in Cass county on a non-support charge, won reversal and a new trial on the ground that "the interests of justice required such action. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen won two suits, one by Thomas J. Huffman and the other by Howard Wasson, both appealed by it from Stutsman county. Huffman and Wasson sued to collect benefits alleged to be due them as members of a benevolent society but the court held their claims should be addressed to the "benevolence" of the organization and could not, under the law, be enforced as a matter of right. Herman A. Nonweiler won a suit against L. R. Baird as receiver for the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of New England, and others, appealed by him from Hettinger county. Nonweiler claimed that service of notice of intention to foreclose land was defective. He was beaten in the district court but won on appeal. The affirmation was in the case of A. M. Sandaker vs. the state auditing board in which the governor's right to veto an appropriation for his salary as assistant dairy commissioner was challenged. The decision held that the governor had such right.