The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-29

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prepare business before going to
Court, andif the Constable does his
duty calling in the best men Of the
neighborhocd 10 settle petty differ
ences. and disputes among their
neighbors, atask at once disagreed
Iblea and well calculated to create bad
feeling and discord where harmony
wouldotherwise prevail, that portion
of the amendments it is submitted
would be oppressive, inconyenient
aud expensive and far more burden
some upon the whole people than the
present County Court System. 1t
would be oppressive on the poor man
because he would be sued one day for
any amount less than three hundred
dollars and have his property taken
the next to satisfy the judgment;
whereas under the present system
upon any amount between one md
three hundred dollars, he couldget at
least six months time; he cannot re-
move the cause because the amend,
ment omits the clause allowing re-
moyals; he may appeal it is true; but
to do 50 he must be able to give secu.
rity to perform and satisfy the judg.
ment, which in many instances, is
beyond the power of men Of moder-
ate means, 1t would be oppressive
on the man of property, because he
could not tell at what moment his
hands are to be called upon q jury
and his business operations delayed
or INSTRUCTED.
The docket of the Circuit Court
will be encountered with vexatious
appeals, where parties can give the
required security, and more time and
expense will be required in unravel.
ling and sitting them out than if the
case were originally brought in the
County Court and the papers prepar-
ed by an attorney; and in many in.
stances more time will be consumed
in their trial before another jury in
the Circuit Court, if demanded, than
in cases where thousands Of dollars
are involved. Many will remember
that during the time we had the
"Board Of Supervisors" we then had
three terms Of the Circuit Court, the
docket was clogged with appeals,
which occupied alarge portion Of the
time of the Court, and there was an
universal cry all over the State, for
an intermediate Court, to try this
minor litigation, and if the amend
ments are. adopted the same want
will be felt.
Again, a glance at the arrange
ment Of Circuits under the proposed
amendments will convince any one
that they were arranged hastily and
without proper consideration; and
when it is remembered that three
Courts year are 10 be held in each
Gircuit, 1t must be admitted that
many Of them are much too large for
any Judge to properly do the bus
mess. And yet in voting for the
amendment yolfyote that these Cir
cults shall not be re districted until
1888, something which should have
been left open to he corrected by ac-
tion of the Legislature.
Take for illustration the CirGuit
composed Of Mason, Putnam and Ia
nawha counties, and allow three
weeks for Mason, two weeks for Put
nam and eight weeks for Kanawha,
which is less than the usual time,
and have three terms II year in each,
and we find that the Circuit Court
will be in session for ten months dur
| ing the year, and when it is remem-
bered that jurors, grand and petit,
suitors and witnesses, must be in at
tendance upon these Courts, will it
be less burdonsome than the present
system with two terms a year, and
two more counties attached to the
Circuit? We think you must say
with US that the present system with
Jail the faults of the County Court is
in many respects preferable to the
proposed amendments, and we should
reject them without hesitation and
bear with the present judicial sys-
TEN until something better isoffered.
A TAXPAYER.
DIR. Barbee's Victory.
Editor Register: The most laugha-