Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-06

eunesday afternoon, and was ably tried
by Messrs. Plumley, Dillingham; and
Bates for the plaintiff. and by Messrs.
johnson and Heath for the defendants.
1t appeared from the testimony that the
real defendant, Neutrality-suspicious. being
merely the officer who served the paper-
had placed an attachment on property
which plaintiff claimed to have purchased.
TO secure debt. which r. II Miller, the
iather of the plaintiff, owed him for mon
ey borrowed. The property attached was.
at the time of the attachment. in the pos
session of Russell Miller, who claimed to
he acting as agent for his son under power
OF attorney. The defendant claimed that
the sale was only a pretended one, made
with fraudulent intentions, and that he
had parted with his money in good faith
and should recover it back.
The plaintiff, who is a Methodist minis
ter residing now ut Shelburne Falls, Mass.
on the other hand claimed that he had
lent his father money, and had finally
bought the property in question to secure
himself, and had paid the balance over to
his father.
1t seems that Mr., Russell Miller was
formerly well-to-do citizen of North
parties of whom he had purchased patent
rights. Among them were three well
known men. Alorzo Redway. Tom
Bates. and Joshua Sawyer Of these last
named gentlemen he had purchased a
recipe for cleaning gravestones, which
reads as follows: Furst wash with sal
soda dissolved in Water then with Mureat-
tee assed and half water then with clean wa
ter" For this valuable recipe the old man
paid Messrs. Roadway. Bates and Sawyer
about fourteen hundred dollars, and the
only thing he ever got for it was Il lot of
land in Florida, Mass, which he took us
patent right territory, at valuation of
three thousand dollars. Upon investiga
ton it was found that the only product of
the land was granite boulders.
The plaintiffs appearance on the stand,
in the attitude of dutiful son providing
for his parents in their old age, carried
the jury with him, and they returned "a
verdict for him to recover four hundred
seven dollars and forty-five cents, although
the defendant had Il very good case.
Calvin Bassett VS.. r. ID. Camp. In this
case the Jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff in The sum of Sl6S. 80 ana costs,
which was all plaintiff claimed. The
plaintiff, resident of Barre, sued the
defendant, resident of Orange, on ac
count of a certain note of 5000, which
plaintiff held against Merrill Eastman of
Barre. The plaintiff had sued the note,
obtained judgment, and attached II guam
tity of hay and grain to satisfy it. East
man needed the stuff to winter his cattle,
and he promised to get Camp to secure
the debt if the plaintiff would leave 1t for
him TO feed out. The cattle and place
belonged to Camp at that time, and Camp
agreed to secure the debt, provided East
man would secure him in turn by giving
over to him some notes belonging to Mrs.
Eastman. The plaintiff testified that he
saw Camp in Barre and had converse
ton with him ON the postotfice steps, in
the course of which Camp agreed to see
that he was paid if he would let Eastman
feed out the stuff on the place. Camp
denied this; denied that he knew the
plaintiff at all; said he never mad spoken
with him in his life. But the Jury refused
to believe that the plaintiff had lett his
property to be consumed, with no securi-
ty at all; hence the plaintiff won his case
His side of it was managed by his
brother, Mr.. George Bassett OF Barre; the
Wings for defendant
George P. Foster VS.. Clark Templeton.
There was another plaintiff Jury in this
case also, and they gave u verdict in favor
of the plaintiff for Sl49 and costs. lit
appeared that the defendants son used to
come down from his fathers house in
East Montpelier, and roll in certain
"ten pin g" alley, on Main street, in this
place. The alley was owned by the
plaintiff, who is the well known proprietor
of the Union house in Montpelier. From
rolling in the alley young Alden got the
idea that it would be fine thing to run
one himself. With that in view he talked
with Mr.. Foster about the profits of such
an institution.
Mr.. Foster claimed that the alley was
good thing when he started it, and in ten
weeks he made over a thousand dollars
When young Templeton's ears We're
filled with this glowing account he became
more DESTROYS of having the fun of run
ming bowling alley, and, at the same |