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SEVERAL RAILROAD CASES Brought Before tne Supreme Court From Rutland County. Montpeller, Feb. 1.-In Supreme Court to-day, hearings in Rutland county cases were continued, the first one heard being William D. Sherman vs. Delaware and Hudson Canal company. G. E. Lawren e appeared for the plaintiff and Butler and Moloney for the defendant. This IS an action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained by reason of falling from a ladder upon which he was standing while taking measurements of a ventilator upon a passenger car of the defendant, his fall being occasioned by the starting of an engine attached to the car. The case was heard at the March term, 1898, and the jury rendered a verdiet for the plaintiff for $2000 damages, upon which the defendant filed a motion to set aside the verdict which was denied and the case comes up to the Supreme Court on defendant's exceptions, The defendant claims that the plaintiff, at the time of the accident, was acting as the defendant's servant and that the injury, if occasioned by its servant, resulted from the neglect of a fellow servant of the plaintiff. And also because the case showed that the accident occurred through the negligence of the plaintiff himself, and that upon the evidence it was not caused : by any negligence for which the defendant is in law chargeable. In the case of Thomas Murtey, receiver of the Commercial bank of Weeping Water, Neb., vs. Simeon Allen, Butler and Moloney appeared for the plaintiff and Beaman and Platt and J. C. Baker for the defendant. In this case it appears that the defendant held 25 shares of $100 each in the Commercial bank which is insolvent and it is held by the plaintiff that under the Nebraska law that the stockholders in an insolvent corporation is liable in proportion to the amount of stock 3 held by him while the defendant claims that this law is local in its operation and can not be enforced in this State. In the September term, 1898, the plaintiff's declaration was adjudged insuflicient and the e uo amon enrauding aut 01 SEM este / the plaintiff's exceptions. The closing case of Rutland county was that of George T. and Newman K. Chaffee e vs. the Rutland Railroad company, G. E. L Lawrence appearing for the plaintiffs and Stickney and Sargent, F. D. White and 1' M. Meldon for the defendant. . This is a case of alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in which the 3 plaintiff's received a judgment for $200 damages at the March term, 1898, in the t lower court and the case came to the Suis preme Court on the defendant's exceptions. y
