Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-08

the consequences resulting from deranged
state Of the currency from 1887, and on
; for some years the numerous failures in
the iron and other businesses and prac.
! tice which originated in this county some
, seven or eight years ago, of entering
: appeals from awards of arbitrators, for the
purpose, on account of the accumulation
of business on the issue list, of getting a
longer stay of execution than defendants
would be otherwise entitled to; and as a
"Suitor and Tax Payer" appears to have
had some experience in the matter, perhaps
he can tell whether this practice orr iginatcd
with the court, or the bar, and with which
of the bar.
Whatever " Suitor" has to complain,
it is well known that Ed. CHI" has not
the "shadow of shade" of an excuse
for his winnings but, as shall show, the
complaint lays the other way. Altho'
the list has not been burthened with his
causes, yet when he had one for trial, it
had to be continued a number of terms
before he could be ready for trial Take
one case for Illustration. A cause had been
continued number of terms on account
of his absence, but by defendants counsel
was forced to trial on Thursday morning of
the first week of last court when the cause
was reached, defendants ready, and IA large
number of witnesses in attendance, the
Ed CHI among the missing full
hour delay was experienced by the court,
being taken up by the constables in hunting
him and bringing him into court. 1t was
said, but | can not vouch for its truth, that
he was found in a printing Office, reading
newspapers instead Of being where he ought
TO have been, attending to the interests of
his clients. When he made his appearance
after endeavoring to get continuance and
failing, having brought the suit in the
name of the wrong party, he took a nom
suit, and the court discharged the jury to
the great delay Of a q Suitor,' and oppres-
sion of a "Tax-payer;' , but who caused the
delay? Was it Judge Wilson or the " Ed
Ch." However, there is palliation in
his case, and it is but right that | should
name it. His favorite candidate, under the ,
advice of Gov. Johnston, has taken the
stump (small business for President
judge and he must needs have an aid
He a profcssed Democrat, his fayorite a
rrofessed Wing, both hailing from the
county of Perry, but few years ago, have
linked arms and gone to Mifiin county,
not to try a post Office defaulter, but by
their united elo1uencc to convince the good
people of Mifiiin county, that he is much |
better qualified te be their Judge than the
present incumbent.
NO man can, ana even the productions !
Of the sheet referred to, dare not say one .
word against the moral character Of Judge
Wilson. 1t is as far above suspicion as
Caesar would have his wife. He was raised
among US; We all know him from his
native of Northumberland coun- .
ty. His opponent has been but few years /
in the county; descended from naughty /
British family, he has evinced while among
rs only character for haughtiness and ,
which of themselves are a
sufficient evidence of shallow mind.
The only objection that has been bro't
against Judge w. is that he is slow. From
what has been said, this charge is palpably
unfounded Judge Wilson it is true lets
no case pass through his hands without
:areful examination; which has been con-
,trued by persons not versed in the legal
science as evidence of his being slow.
There is difference between trying case
and having it reversed by S. G.
hence to retry ton the one hand; and .
IN the other giving it a careful and thoro'
at first, and thus put an end /
% it. This Judge W. does; and the con-
sequence is, that fewer of his cases are re-
'ersed by the S. c. than those of any of
he neighboring JUICES. Sometimes, as
in late case, when the Supreme Court ,
overrules all former notions as to the law
Of Contract, turning the case of the tu!fk
ment of contract into the case of a simple
sale of goods; he is reversed. Also in anoth- /
cr late case where one of the counsel stated
facts intendedto be proved, differently from
what they turned out in fact to be, he was
also reversed But this was not the fault'of
the court below. In the one case it is to be
laid at the door of the Supreme Court, who
ruled the law to be different from what it
had been held to be for hundred years
LII une OtueT case III WIS tuc idull VI inc
counsel who mistated the facts. Lest l
may be thought to misrepresent: Hear
what the Sapreme Court say!
(Joscph Casey is the Defendants Coun-
sci spoken of by the Court.)
Rearick VS. Rearick S. G. July Term, 1S-
j." 1t is much to be regretted,
the leading facts to be proved by defts. wit
nesses, Conrad Rearick, were either incon-
comprehended or unfairly stated
on the first trial Of this cause, and on the
former argument in this court. Had the /
facts been then presented, as they have been
since found, the trouble and expense Of a
second trial would have been avoided, and |
at least of the bitterness which
unfortunately, so often marks the progress
of family quarrel escaped. UJor the sake
of a temporary triumph the Deft. presented
an unconnected view of his proposed de-
fence, it is fault which will in some de-
gree be punished by the evanescent cost of
the investigation. If he was himself mis-
lead by nisapprehension of it, it was
but not wholly untinged by
fault; for in litigation correctly to ascer-
lain tho facts 70 ho nroyed is itself n ron