VERDICT FOR MAYBAUM IN TRIAL OF $4 SUIT

The case of Antone Maybaum vs. Frederick N. Miller was tried in the probate court Saturday before Judge Wood and a jury of six men. This case was the outcome of a dispute between Maybaum and Miller over the return of certain traps borrowed by Miller from Maybaum.

The contention of the plaintiff is that last fall Miller borrowed 12 traps from Maybaum for use in a weeks’ trip trapping along Grouse creek. Some four months later Miller returned nine traps, only eight of which belonged to Maybaum, the ninth not being one of those loaned.

Miller denies this version and claims that he received only nine traps and that he returned those to Mr. Maybaum.

A dispute over the matter in the Eagle poolroom was the occasion of a fight between Miller and Maybaum in February during the courese of which Maybaum drew a knife and pushed Miller after Miller had struck him in the face.

Maybaum was tried for assault with a deadly weapon and fined $75. In the present case, Maybaum asked for $4 for his traps and attorney’s fees of $10, and it is understood that it is not the money he is after so much as vindication of his attitude in the former case.

The jury were out but a short while when they returned a verdict in favor of the paintiff.

Myrvin Davis appeared for Maybaum and J.T. McDuffle conducted the defense.