No Cure No Pay Note

           A Lodi Farmer's Name on a $100 Note

                  _________________

                  HIS CASE AGGRAVATED

                  _________________

     By the Treatment of the Traveling Quack.

                  _________________

      But He is Now Sued on the Note in Justice Duffy's  Court.   
  -- A Larceny Case, Two Drunks and a Wife Beating Case  Bought Up.

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Another case of signing a $100 "no cure to pay" note has come to light in Justice Duffy's court.
This time it is another pretended traveling doctor and the victim of this pretended skill is a Lodi farmer, who was only made worse by the pretended course of treatment.
It is to be hoped that the publicity given these cases will induce our citizens will turn a deaf ear to all such quacks hereafter.
It may safely be set down that skillful physicians can make enough money by locating at one place.

Justice Duffy's most important occupation at present is filling his stoves with wood and incidentally taking care of the little business which ventures in during this cold weather.
In one case, the plea filed Monday morning by Blum & Aurey, the defendants attorneys indicates that when the case is up for trial there will be a hot time, no matter what the weather may be.
The case was commenced by the Indianapolis Medical Surgical Institute on a note of  $100 given by John George Braun, of Lodi. The company's attorneys are Lehman Bros. & Stivers.
The chief part of the defendants plea filed in this case is as follows :

"Plaintiff's agent represented to the defendant that he was a doctor and that he could cure said defendant if he would take a course of treatment with him, and that this defendant could give him, said agent, his note in payment, which note was to be cancelled upon plaintiff's failure to cure this defendant.
This defendant relying upon and believing said plaintiff's agent took the course of treatment prescribed by the said plaintiff's agent and carefully and faithfully carried out the directions of said plaintiff's agent, but said defendant has not been cured or even benefitted by said course of treatment and that said plaintiff's agent well knew that the said agent could not cure said defendant and that said plaintiff has failed and neglected to fulfill their said promises made by their said agent with this defendant.
That this defendant will insist in his defense that the plaintiff's right to recover on said note is barred, under section 2287b5 of Howell's Annotated Statutes. "
The case was set for trial next Monday.

Two men on their way to Hamburg to help cut ice were belated in the city of Ann Arbor and came under the category of drank on the streets and received 10 days free board at the Hotel de Gillen.
They are registered among the guests as Edward Brandon and William Remington.

Asa Nash, a blacksmith was charged with pounding his wife Sunday The couple live at the corner of East Ann and Fifth ave.
Justice Duffy said the penalty would be $5 and costs or 30 days in jail and the fine will probably be paid during the day.

Fred Proctor. charged with stealing a sweater and a pair of slippers from a waiter in the Portland Cafe wat arrested in Detroit Saturday evening.
Monday morning he pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned to Feb. 32.
He admits he has the articles but claims he was using them with the owners permission and that it is a misunderstanding which has caused him to be charged with larceny.