Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-03
Upsetting a Judgment.

TIE WAY IT Is DONE IN SUSSEX COUNTY.
In Sussex county to-day, as of old, you
can End men who entertain novel and
unique ideas Of almost every conceivable
thing. Queer notions of theology, the
arts and sciences, Of politics and law
have existed there through all time and
most probably will never be eradicated
until the threshold Of eternity lie passed.
These strange notions and ideas are not
entertained by the people Of that county
as a whole, but by a respectable minor
ity, and have been handed down from
father to sou for generations. They are
held as tenaciously as the miser grasps
his gold or as the cid fogy cllngs to his
long exploded theories.
OF course they do no good, and the
harm they breed is, TO all appearances,
innnitesimally email.
Some time since one of these men,
whose father before him cOnteuded that
this, that and the other was law or no
law, revived an old idea that he had been
taught by his progenitor and concluded
that this generation were not familiar
with the proper way to etfectuRlly upset
Judgments, and only desired an opportu-
nifty to show the public how he would
proceed In such cases.
Al last an opportunity presented itself.
He owed neighbor q sum OF money, and
as his peach crop the season preaching
had proved a miserable failure and his
corn would not bring more than fifty
cents per bushel, he could not meet bill
that had fallen due. His creditor wanted
money badly and would not grant an ex
tension of time, 60 proceedings were insti-
ted for the recovery of thu money dut
bin and the creditor got judgment for the
amount. The day for the sale oe he debt
or's property was drawing nigh, aud thi.
made him think of the lessons his father
had taught him, especially that one which
related to the NJ setllng OF judgments
lie considered the multtr al length ant
determined to proceed ut once aud dc
mOnstfa' to public thirstlsg fO
knowledge, that selling property by legt
process for the payment Of debts, was 1
numhug, and entirely contrary to tn
'aw hi father bad conceived
| Dressing himself IN hls best aud pro
ceeding to thr.otlic.fol the Justice Of tn
Peace where the Indictment. had hcel
given, lac found not only the Justice win
had heard he ease hut also the RELENTLESS
creditor Without further ado keinfurmcl
those present OF his mission-ihuf he hal
come to upset that Judgment In the Wa
his father had taught him to upset sue
b hu'uhugs. So hc prorcnd0d aud with OF.
swing of HE right arm kuocbed III
grave justice from the high stool o
which he was sitting. and owing n III
close proximity Of the window lie VII
had been giving judgments went throug
it without bclsijng TIE sash.
Next farming his attention to tue eret
itor, who was trembling with fesr. Ii
e stabbed the docket with the firm inteI
lon Of using il over the head Of his foe
, Bat before the intention cuHld he carrie
p utn execution the creditor sith one boun
cent through back window aud a.
! rae debtor WAS 10 sole Possession Of III
,ilicr. He proceeded tn the stove opent
| {, door and Was about 10 drop the dock
o when the Jnstice, who had recOyere
B and recruited Ills strength and summOnc
= 4 few by ISLANDERS to his aid, rushe
! mo the door, srizei the beligerent ma
ind saved tue hook.
Tile Justice, re- installed and surrOundG
by friends, now ielt brave, issued wa
ant for the arrest Of his assailant, on
d charge Of assault and battery, aud IN
U few minutes proceeded to tell the mi
. he had been hued aud held in bail 70 ket
c the peace. The man furnished bail al
j thus the case stands at present.
The debtor is firmly of the opinlC
E though that, had he been left alone for
j. few minutes, he would have upset thi
p judgment so sifectually that no huma
= agency would have been powerful enoug
10 replace It,