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IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS $30,000 SUIT PRACTICALLY SETTLED BY JUDGE ROBINSON: Important Motion Denied-Will of the Late Professor O. C. Marsh Likely to be Contested by a Disinherited NephewE. S. Ferry Has Filed a Petition in Bankruptey-City Court Doings. Suits brought against five defendants, residents of this city and Meriden, to recover on stock subscriptions in the Northern Trust company of Minneapolis, Minn., now in the hands of receivers, brought in the superior court in this county, have practically been disposed of by a decision made by Judge Robinson on a motion by Lawyer Edward H. Rogers, counsel for all the defendants. The amount involved was about $30,000. Lawyer E. B. Bennett of Hartford brought the suits in this state in behalf of Daniel Fish of Minneapolis, receiver of the company. The defendants are Andrew H. Smith and Henry Rogers of New Haven, Matilda C. Gilbert of East Haven, and Rufus S. Bishop and P. F. Murphy of Meriden. Lawyer Rogers made the point in his answer that the receivers had either resigned or were discharged and that the orders authorizing the suits in Connecticut was no longer in force. Lawyer Bennett made a reply to the answer and Mr. Rogers moved that it be expunged because it raised no issuable or transible matter and Judge Robinson granted the motion. TO CONTEST THE WILL. It is understood that the will of the late Othniel C. Marsh, professor of palentology at Yale, is to be contested by his only heir, R. H. Waters of Newburyport, Mass. Ex-Judge William B. Stoddard and Attorney Spalding of Boston have been retained as counsel. The hearing was assigned for to-day before Judge Cleaveland, but counsel for Mr. Waters will ask that it be postponed until May, in order that some relatives now traveling in California may be present as witnesses. In the will Mr. Waters is not mentioned at all, but substantially everything is bequeathed to Yale university. There is a bequest of $10,000 in favor of
