ISBN: 9781130555561

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: .have known him from a boy." "What is his character?" "Well, he always dealt fair enough with me." "You never heard anything against him for honesty?" "Well, I can't exactly say that; he stole a fine hog from me that I had killed and hung up in my smokehouse; I tracked him and found the This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: .have known him from a boy." "What is his character?" "Well, he always dealt fair enough with me." "You never heard anything against him for honesty?" "Well, I can't exactly say that; he stole a fine hog from me that I had killed and hung up in my smokehouse; I tracked him and found the hog next morning at his house and he paid me for it." The opposing attorneys received this, the last of the evidence, with a boisterous laugh. After the court had instructed the jurors that the evidence must be strong enough before they could find for the defendant, that if the plaintiff were on trial they would send him to the penitentiary, the jurors went upstairs and wrestled with the case all night. About daylight they hit upon a solution and returned a verdict of one cent and costs for the plaintiff. They had understood from the court's instructions that if they found for the defendant the plaintiff would have to go to the penitentiary, hence the strange verdict and the long consultation. Another slander case. In one of the oldest communities of the Whitewater valley society had been thrown into two hostile factions by the slanderous statement of one woman that another had stolen a goose. All the women in the community were in the court house as witnesses and all the men had come to hear the lawyers and see fair play generally. There were a score of witnesses to prove character, though nobody's character was ever questioned. There was a like number of witnesses to prove the spoken words, which nobody denied. The whole question hinged on the ownership of the goose. The plaintiff, represented by Governor David Wallace, Senator James Noble and General McKinney, proved that she owned and always had owned the goose in question from. Books, History~~General, Courts-and-lawyers-of-Indiana~~Leander-J-1843-1919-Monks, 999999999, Courts and Lawyers of Indiana, Leander John Monks, 1130555569, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781130555561

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: .have known him from a boy." "What is his character?" "Well, he always dealt fair enough with me." "You never heard anything against him for honesty?" "Well, I can't exactly say that; he stole a fine hog from me that I had killed and hung up in my smokehouse; I tracked him and found the hog next morning at his house and he paid me for it." The opposing attorneys received this, the last of the evidence, with a boisterous laugh. After the court had instructed the jurors that the evidence must be strong enough before they could find for the defendant, that if the plaintiff were on trial they would send him to the penitentiary, the jurors went upstairs and wrestled with the case all night. About daylight they hit upon a solution and returned a verdict of one cent and costs for the plaintiff. They had understood from the court's instructions that if they found for the defendant the plaintiff would have to go to the penitentiary, hence the strange verdict and the long consultation. Another slander case. In one of the oldest communities of the Whitewater valley society had been thrown into two hostile factions by the slanderous statement of one woman that another had stolen a goose. All the women in the community were in the court house as witnesses and all the men had come to hear the lawyers and see fair play generally. There were a score of witnesses to prove character, though nobody's character was ever questioned. There was a like number of witnesses to prove the spoken words, which nobody denied. The whole question hinged on the ownership of the goose. The plaintiff, represented by Governor David Wallace, Senator James Noble and General McKinney, proved that she owned and always had owned the goose in question from. Books History~~General Courts-and-lawyers-of-Indiana~~Leander-J-1843-1919-Monks General Books LLC<