The Litchfield County post., 1828-03-13

one Mr. Tom Straw to restore my coat if Frank could not show tiile so il upon .
 trial tn the Court House. | asked Mr. Gibson when this matter vas likely to be settled, for didn't like the looks Of it-I and he told me politely, that it would be for trial in March IsI9-Frank was ale ways desperate hard fellow on coat and began to run over in my mind what pretty locking concern this coat ofmine would be in March 1919. However, l
 waited patiently for the time, and as soon as the Court was opened, there was l tn ] person, and Mir. Gwynn my attorney, to make d dash for my coat. There were only eighteen hundred cases on the docket to be tried that term, and mine had been promoted to No. I5OO-Well, after att tending till June with Mir. Benson the tai- Tor who made it, as a witness, found that by that time, they had tried4250 cases when Judge Dorsey and the lawyers had to go of to the Court of Appeals, SO the Court was obliged to be adjOurned, and I had to pay my witnesses somewhere between 30 ] and 40 dollars-Mr. Gibson can tell-& I was very politely told by MT Gibson that I must come again next September. Se in September came again with my old friend Benson. My case was now on a more respectable footing; it had grown older, and stood No. 1900 on the docket. The Court kept very busily at work and at the end of January, they adjourned at the request of Mir. Gibson, who told them that the intervening time between that and March, was ndispensibly necessary to him 70 make up his dockets for the next term. This time they got through three hundred cases and Mir. Gibson again very politely told me to pay my witnesses and come a. gain in March.-In March 1920, it was the same thing, only that Taylor vs. SOb- ersides stood at No. 75O. Well, I began to think this no joke. God knows what had became of my coat-it was now bet Ter than two years since I had made my rash bet et;-however my pride was reused and would not allow me to give it up,so pushed Mir. Gwynn again with another lfee to let him see I was not daunted. Two hundred cases more were got rid of that term, and to make the story as short as possible, it was in March 1922, that my case was called, when MT. Thomas kell, ahe attorney for Frank stated that his un- fortunate client had short time be- fore that died of an apoplexy-which Mir. Kell called think, suggesting death,-- and I suppose Frank was buried in my coat. So ! had to wait till next term for a new party to be made. Mr. kell stated moreover, that poor Frank had left no ef- fects behind him, and died utterly insolv- ent and good for nothing, which was ve- ry hard easel was afraid to say any thing about the bet lest MT. Kell should seize on it as assets in my hands. As the estate of Frank Taylor was, therefore, a matter of moonshine, that very worthy old servant of the Court, MT. Heddinger, was put in Franks shoes as his administrator, on the docket, and with great courtesy, in September, 1923, confessed judgment in my favour-Mr. Kell not being aware of any right that Frank had to this property. After this asked what was to do, and my friend Gwynna told me the coat was made into brown paper by this time, and that my only course was to sue Tom Straw We'll, sir, saidaI, MT. Gwynn, any thing you please-in for penny in for pound. So paid of all expenses of my replevin suit-which had gained-I think the a. mount taking it altogether, was about sixty or seventy dollars-and l prepared myself for the pleasure of getting into my new suit-at law. Accordingly in March term, lS24,I started upon the world in the char acter ofa plaintiff. Simon Sobersides vs. Thomas Straw. This case advanced with great vigour, considering that it'is a con- tested case in which Straw, whom don't think much of, has put in great many pleas, ,and has also brought cross action a. gainst me for the amount of the bet, in the
 name of the administrator. These two ca ses stand like twins upon the docket. and we expect to have them tried at the same
 time. Mr Gibson tells me now that l may confidently calculate upon terminating the controversy about the coat sometime in the present year provided there should be no appeal-if there should be-God help us |! he says-he would not undertake for the next ten years. It has been an amazing fine suit, andshas fourished under agreat many ! iu 'ges---nnder Dorsey, and Bland, and Ward, sand Hanson, and Archer. and has at last come into the times of Judge Ksll,
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