Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-08-06
Court in Greenville.

following from the Grccnville Enterprise
The extra term of the Courtof Common
Pleas is still in session. Since our last is
sue, a few cases of general Interest have
been decided, which we arc induced to pubs
lish, inasmuch us the community generally
has shown much attention TO them during
their progress &c.
!! We mentioned in our issue of last week,
the case of w. ID. Dickey VS.. the Mush !
Creek and South Tiger Drainage Compa-
ny, which had not been concluded at the
time of going to press. In this case, u
verdict for the plaintiff for $3.50 was rem
dcrcd.
The next case was that of Peter McGo-
vcrr ri ri. against John Cooper and Jcrc-
mah Satterlield brought to recover DANA
. gcs for injury done to land of plaintiffs by
, defendants mill dam The plaintiffs re-
covered damages tothc amount of thirteen
dollar-a sufficient sum to carry costs,
which will, perhaps, amount to one thou
sand dollars! Three acres of land, tie
amount proven to be damaged by the cvcc-
ton of the dam, and worth about one hui
drcd and fifty dollars, have cost the parties
to this suit more than five times the value
of property involved. These were the on
ly cases of interest tried last week. Az
peas, in boil, cases, have been taken, and
what the ultimate decisions will be is, of
course, matters of conjecture.
But the case Of tho term, if We may SO
speak. was that of Gilec Guntcr vs. VIM.
! Il. WickliIfc, which was commenced Oh
/ Wednesday morning last and concluded
on Tuesday afternoon. This was an action
of SANDER brought BY a handsomc-looking
| girl OF about seventeen summers, to.rccov-
II damages for SANDERS, which she alleged
had been uttered and published by the de-
tcndant. Ii appears that the fair plaintiff
was engaged to be married to the son of
ncigllbor, a worthy and clever young gen
| tlcman. The defendant, who was neigh
bor, and regarded as II friend to the father
of the young man, told the father that the
| girl to whom his son was cngngcd, vas not
virtuous, aud that he felt it his duty as
ncishbor anda friend to tell him so. This
| information caused the match to be broken
OFF, whcrcupon the plaintiff brought her
action to recover damages Whether the
reports conveyed to the father was done
50 mallciously, was not proven. The law,
however, prcsumes this to be the casc.-
TO the declaration of the plaintiff, the dc
PENDANT put in his plea of justification, and
cndcavorcd to prove the young girl all that
80 IN n". .,;.,I' ' '''%s 'i N"s P'o.ot
,';i 90. r 'D'0 W ''c i''''G' ".
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The case was ably argued by Mcssrs. c. p.
Sullivan and j. p. Reed fol the defence,
Tho or,rrnnnrt of tho l,;tor -, n.na
;nIooI .I,a .llos, aa;>'. W., o,.'''. I', n:''
m,l,n IIo oon,,,;oI .,," ,,,.,l:'.;ioI a..a n,,''
tion Of thn oo,,rt ;,r,, ,,,I .h,, -
cnnrt ,room f,r nr,ya ym.I of ,M 1orsH ,oufsl
Thc caso wos snLm;ttod 70 81" | ;,rr br ~.
Honor .uI~c ivL;tnor oftor = br;nf' I9rmn
Thc ;urv rctrrncI rorJ;nt yoStorJ,r m,1,r
nino for the nl,;rtiN of 81 (O0
IL is pot ot Nil lil.c,v tLat ,bo dncLct nil,
bc clc,rcd dur;n,, thc nrcsnnt soss;nr
Several imnort,nt cnscs must rcm,;n ovor
until Octuhr. Tcrm
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AN IMPORTANT CooNTniDurfoN TO Po-
| IJpIrAI III n rho .Snnt1,
nubIisbcd ot Cnlumhi, cout,;rs n l,n,, ,uJ
elaborate communication from tbc IInn. y
w. pickens. our present minister to Russia
on several very imnortont subjects conncc.
ted with the noliticL history of his conn-
try It was written ot St pctcr.Inrch
and is dosioned TO bc viudic,tinn of IT.
Calhoun and President Polk from ccrt,i,,
ALLEGATIONS contained in .Col Dont6n,s
"Thirty Years in the Jrnitc1 States Son.