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CIVIL NOTES. The jury in the Supreme Court, before Justice Barrett, yesterday awarded $1,400 as damages to Edward M. Lee, ex-Governor of Wyoming Territory, in his suit for $5,000 damages in consequence of being thrown from his carriage by driving against a pile of sand at Broadway and Twenty-seventhi-st., on November 7, 1875. Justice Donohue yesterday ordered Marcus T. Hun, receiver of the Central Park and the People's Savings Bank, to turn over $2,006 92 on the final dividend of the moneys received by him from the assets of the former institution. He also ordered the referee to distribute $10,528 10 on the final dividend from $23,421 37 received by him. Henry N. Smith has obtained a temporary injunction in the Superior Court, restraining the United States Illuminating Company from erecting its poles in Forty-third-st., near Fifth-ave. Mr. Smith states that he purposes building an apartment house in the street and regards the poles as a nuisance. The argument for a permanent injunction will be made on Friday. Ashbel H. Barney has also obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Donohuc, in the Supreme Court Chambers, restraining the company from crecting a pole at Park-ave. and Thirty-eighth-st. Judge Ingraham, in the Superior Court, Special Term, yesterday denied a writ of mandaious in behalf of William H. Field to compel the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to produce its books of transfer stocks 80 that the relator could obtain the names and addresses of the holders of the preferred stock of the company. In denying the writ, Judge Ingraham holds that the courts of this State have no authority to grant the remedy sought, by a special proceeding, or in any other way than by active; and that, even if the court had this power, the relator 18 not entitled to it, under the circumstances, it appearing that the stock owned by Mr. Field was transferred to him long after the resolution of the Board of Directors authorizing the execution of the mortgage to aid in the opposition to which the inspection was sought. John McCall came from Ireland to this country in 1823, and in 1846 he bought two lots at Fifth-ave. and Eighty-seventh-st. for $270. He lived there until he died, in 1847. leaving a widow, who occupied the premises until 1860, when Central Park was opened. On the theory that Mr. McCall left no heirs, and that the lots had escheated to the State, the Legislature in 1860 passed an act releasing the State's rights to the widow, but reserving whatever rights any heirs might have. A. B. Tappan, a well-known lawyer of this city, took a conveyance of the lots from the widow subsequent to 1860, and from him the property passed to William N. Thompson, a western Bonanza King," who paid $30,000 for it. Alexander McCall, a brother of John, came to this country in 1825, it is asserted, and his heirs have brought suit before Judge Truax in the Superior Court to recover the property, alleging that their rights are not barred by the act of 1860. The property, under a clear title, is estimated at $100,000.