The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-19

u. B. Mlller-Extra Court
Richard Jones-Notice.
II. Il s. Beard-Furniture.
j. c. Seegers-Notiee.
SUPREME COURT DEc1s1os-.Jrsy 10
y: N. Sullivan, respondent. as. w. H.
thomas, appellant Appeal dismissed.
Opinion by Willard, A. j.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, June 10.-.M,ns;or
House "A. Crawford, city; Miss l.. Jones,
Marion; \. A. Peay and wife. Fairfield:
~. .. Griffith, Summit; Miss NJ. Black.
city; Is. r. Maul,lin. &. 4 G.. X. r.:
G. Lykes, Richland: l.. NJ. Dodanlead.
city.
a REMARKABLE CAsE.-Thc New Yoa,
N"'td gives brief history of one of the
most remarkable cases Of protracte.f liki.
cation ever recorded, which dwnrfs into
lnslSnlhcance such wrangles as those
concerning the Jumel will, BIrs. N(yro
Clark Gaines claim or Bentley's Master.
ship OF Trinity, is still pending in the
court OF Common Pleas of Clark County.
NY; In December 1916, Joseph BlncI
well sued In the Bath Circuit Court. to
recover from nearly LOG defendants, some
2o'ooo acres of land, chiefly in Bath
county. He claimed title by virtue of
~ 1n.t entry under q treasury warrant of
lfo4, and q subsequent survey and
patent, alleging that the defendants
titles, all of which were older than his.
We're void for want of certainty 1t was
1871 before the cnsc reached n hearing.
and IN 1888 the plaintiff got Judgment.
An appeal was taken, and in 1885 the de-
fendants obtained reversal on technical
grounds. The case was remanded to the
bath Court, where it dragged along till
Io46, when change of venue to Clark
County was prayed and gladly granted.
Ihen tor four years the defendants were
unmolested, while the plaintiffs fought
among themselves. Blackwell had been
dead for thirty years, and his heirs now
attempted to make themselves plaintiffs
instead OF VIM. Marshall and John Fowler.
who hnd conducted the suit, claiminc
TO nave purchased from Blackwell. The
heirs denied the fact of such purchase
and Its validity in any case, but after
four years of litigation, were defeated in
all the courts, and the case in 1850 was
precisely AS it was in 1915 In the sue
ceeding twenty-five years it has made
two visits to the Court of Appeals and
returned with unimpaired vivacity. A
year ago it was transferred to the Court
OF Common fleas, and there it is now
pending just as near decision as it was
J~ "So, nAiu CouuuCCSO Win
Just as much energy. All the original
parties to 1t are dead. Three generations
OF lawyers have drawn fees from it,
among others Thomas Fletcher, Robert
81. Bradley. James Simpson, Kenas
Farrow, r. Apperson, Robert Wick
life, John B. Huston, B. j. Peters
and Thomas Turner. Simon Kenton's
autograph appears on a deposition
taken in 1919 and Garrett Davis
on deed certified by him as Deputy
Clerk of the Bath Court in the
same remote year; it has been brought
before SUGGESTIONS of Judges long since
dead. in court houses that dropped to
pieces long ago, but the case remains
defying time like Miss Anthony. AGE
cannot wither it, nor custom stale the
infinite variety of its phases, and as the
lands are increasing in value more ra-
pidly than the fees can possibly increase
IN amount, and the mass of papers in
which fatal technical errors are found
alternately by plaintiff and defendant
yearly grows in volume, there appears
no reason why the case Should not see
the downfall of Kentuckian civilization
as it behcld its rise. and survive long
after blue grass has ceased to grow and
bourbon whiskey to run; nay, even as
sist the last sad rites of its ;nfant brother
o. Brooklyn.
Tickets, Sic. This is the way it