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CIVIL NOTES. Louis Richards, a child, was run over and killed by & truck belonging to P. Ballantine & Sons in Bayard-st., May 5, 1877. His father, as his administrator, began a suit for $5,000 in the Supreme Court, which was discontinued, and he then began a new suit in the Court of Common Pleas. Judge J. F. Daly granted yesterday an order staying the father's suit in the Court of Common Pleas until the costs in the previous suit were paid. In the suit of John T. McGowan, the present receiver of the Guardian Savings Institution, against Joseph J. O'Donohue, the surety for the first two receivers of the Institution, the jury in Superior Court, Trial Term, before Judge Curtis, gave yesterday a verdict for the plaintiff for $8,769 66. The claim was for $24,000 received by the defendant, $18,000 from Jeremiah Quinlan, the first receiver, and $6,000 from his clerk. The defence as to the first sum was that it was a payment on a mortgage entirely independent of the Savings Bank, and as to the second that the money was held ID trust for the clerk. It is on the smaller sum, with interest, that the verdiet is based.