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COMMON PLEAS COURT. Hull Released from Paying for "Dead Horse." Another Olyphant bank case was tried yesterday, when the second week of the November term of civil court began. Hon. John P. Kelly, assignee of the defunct bank, was the plaintiff and W. H. Hull the defendant. It was a suit on a $5,000 promissory note. Mr. Hull showed that he was besought by Cashier M. J. Stone to purchase a block of the bank's stock. On Jan. 27 he decided to buy $5,000 worth of the stock and gave his note for that amount. The next day the bank failed. When these facts were shown, and the further fact that the stock was not delivered to him, the jury forthwith rendered a verdiet for the defendant. Judge Purdy, of Honesdale, who is specially presiding in court room No. 3, is engaged in trying the case of H. S. Worden against Mary Connell. It is a suit to recover $1,500 on a $1,950 contract for a house built for the defendant in Minooka by Minor G. Worden, who assigned the claim to the present plaintiff. When the work was only fairly started Mrs. Connell discharged the contractor and had another finish the building, alleging that Worden was not doing the work according to the plans and specifications. She paid him $450. the difference between the contract price and what the second builder charged for completing the job. Suit is now brought to recover the balance, The testimony is almost entirely of an expert character, dealing with the question of whether or not Worden was doing the work according to contract. Before Judge Gunster, in the main court room, the case of John Pressman, the Dickson City hotelkeeper, against the borough of Dickson City is on trial. The plaintiff sues to recover for damages to his property resulting from a flooding of his cellar, which was due, he alleges, to the borough's negligence in not supplying means of carrying off the surface water. H. A. Depuy is suing before Judge