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Show 1 fendants the south side of the entrance en-trance into the skating rink -on Grant avenue, to be used for a lunch stand, ceneral confection, hot coffee and summer drinks store. She rented the place lor $20 a month, making a pari payment wnen the agreement was entered en-tered into, the balance to be paid at the end of the month. The plaintiff testified that after she had occupied the place about one v eek tho Lefendants took forcible r;ossesslon , of tho place .threw her store fixtures and goods, wares and n-erchandlse into thd street, and they I'Cre never returned to her. She estimates es-timates that her loaa In Ih transaction transac-tion amounts to abouts $5'0. The defendants de-fendants offered no testimony In sup-I sup-I ort of their contention that Mrs. Sherwood has not been damaged. The defense made a motion to the court that the case be continued on the ground that the defendant Drown could not be located by the attorney end that the other defendants had not been served with notice of the proceedings. pro-ceedings. The motion was denied and the parties ordered to proceed with the trial. SHE CLAIMS DAMAGES 1500 The trial of the case of Mary Sher- i v. ood aaglnst Frank Brown and others, I ' was taken up by Judge Howell today, j J the introduction of testimony being ' concluded at tho noon hour. The d'J-I d'J-I feiidants' attorney was given two days' 1 fine lu which to present a legal brief , brief to fchow that the defendant 1 Brown cauuol be held responsible for j I the acts complained of by tbe jdalu- t-ff. I Mrs Sherwood complains that in 1 ! January, 1910, she leased of the de- i |