Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-08
circuit Decisions,

the extra Court for Anderson District
Judge O'Neall, presiding;
ACCESSIBILITY OF EvIDENcE- There
was case between Auson Bangs Il Co,
and John T. Sloan, as to Rail Road, which
occupied the court two days, and elected
\ good deal of interest. There were no
legal principles involved in the case, ex-
cept as to the adtnissibility of testimony.
tohn y. Sloap, o member of the firm of
&saiiIard d. Co., made n contract with An
son Bangs to make two HUNDRED and fifty
oars, The carts were made at his shop.
tho shop of Gaillard & Co., and charged to
Anson Bangs & Co. The bills were all
made out in the name Of Gaillard & Co..
Payments were made and receipts given BY
Gaillard Il Co. But the action was brought
in the name of John Il. Sloan and his part
ner, w. III. d. Gaillard, WAS offered as
witness to prove the work, &c. A plea in
abatement was filed, setting forth that tie
action should have been in the maine of
Gaillard d Co. The Court ruled, and the
jury found that the action was well brought
and that Mr.. Gaillard was acompetent wit
ness, From this ruling and finding we
have appealed. The verdict as TO the a..
mount of damage was not rendered when
we left the Court House for tho cars
EQUINE SuIcIpE.--Ther was al. action
brought by Hobsou VS.. Cobb, for the value
Z OF a horse choked to death in Cobb's sta
bic, at Williamson. The question was as
7 to the liability of tavern keepers. Theproof
was by plaintiff that the rope or halter was
not well tied. On the other hand the
a Ia ii, ~
was, we thought, a clear case of voluntary
suicide on the part of the horse, and that
the defendant was not liable Ills Honor
thought the Jury might we'll presume neg,
Eligence. The plaintiffs counsel affirmed
that tavern keepers were overseers of the
/ lives of all horses put into their stable, a.
gainst all accidents, except those occurring
from the act of God or public enemy
The defendants counsel coutended that the
horse died of cholic. The Jury returned a
verdict for defendant, and the plaintiffs
counsel appealed 10 have it determined by
their Honors the six law Judges, whether
fthe horse committed suicide, died by the
act of God, or was assisted in any way in
his death by the defendant or hisservants."
GA VILLAGE IN IssuE.-The most i'm
portant case was postponed. II is case
of great magnitude. An action brought to
recover the whole village of Andefson!--.
Tie State ofSouth Carolina once granted
to Wadsworth & Turpin, four or FIVE hun
dred acres of land in Pendleton district, on
the waters of Generostee Branch Wm. Tur
pin conveyed his interest TO Wadswouh,
and Wadsworth died, leaving all his lands
to trustees for the benefit ola public school.
The Legislature passed an act that the stat.
ute Of limitation should not run against
these lands. Recently surveyors have been
locating this tract ofland on theSillage of
Anderson, including all the public build.
ings, rail road depots, private residences,
stores. &c. We jestingly said to the plain,
lifts counsel that this action would revive
in Anderson village the right of nullifca.
ton, which prevailed there so generally ih
1882. lie replied that he was in hopes
that the circulation of the Patriot amongst
the good citizens of Anderson had taught
them obedience and Submission 10 tho laws
of the land But friend replied for us
that the Patriot had only taught subnis-
sion to law in cases of imaginary evils, and
maintaiued the right ofyresisiauce to con
stituted authorities when real oppression
came, and the preservation oflife, honor
and property required resistance and q, re-
sort to arms and revolution. m
A WoRKIRo JuDGp.- His Honor Judge
FO'Neali sat in Court from ninein the morn
ing till near eight in tho eyening, whilst
the thermometer stood about ninety ! And
at night he made temperance speeches to
the Sonsl In the morning he arose, bright
and early, with his report written out 10
all the cases appealed from!
The BLUE RIDeE RoAB on NTRI1L,-C Col.
HG@inn, the Chief Engineer of tho Blue
Ridge Rail Road, invited his Honor Judge
O'Neall, and the Bar, to take a ride on his
Road, one morning during Court, which We
| all diH 1t is certainly the best construc-
ted Rail Road il the Southern States. we
have never Travelled over any road equal to
il for smoothness aud steady riding The
iron is very heavy, aud timbers are all
thick and substantial. For four or five
miles from Anderson the Road isa straight
line. s2sis 50 II. .b.,t,. s.,
SiLyEs IN fHs WATERs or THE OCEAN
-,Il has been recently discovered, and tho
experiment actually made, that the water
of the ocean contains very large amount
of pure siIyeri The chemists Of France
have extracted silver from the water in con
siderable quantities. The topper on the
bottoms of,yessels long atsea, have collec,
I ted this silyerl The water has been anal
| yzed. land silver obtained! Calculations are
made as to the amount of silver in tie seas
land oceans! II is a very large amount 8
The oceans silver water is,.ho lougera a fig.
ne ofspeeeb, .areality! What next?