The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-07-28

whom he expects to pay out of any al
lowanee lac may get Ms a fes ip tine CASE
The ebj1A of this ssasepsnt va 80
sEo~ that kwouid= hAver,D-1f1dE~ifs
fee 18th TAD ether lawyers, and there
foFe his fse-oaght to Be large % sste
enable hinro pay his associate counsel
and leave a big fee to himself. After
he had collected the $1,000 he offered to
pay his associate counsel In the ease
500; Judge Williams feeling thafit
was an insult to offer him only Ave per
cent. Of the allowance, 8, 900, which
Hayeraft had received, refused to accept
the proposition and sued him fer 81 go.
To this suit Haycraft fled an answer.
In which ON oath che denies that there
was any contract to pay any sum or to
pay at all, the understanding being at
the time, this was his impression of it,
and fully warranted, as he thinks, by
the facts, that it was matter Of good
will on both sides" 'sThe allowance
that was made to him was for his own
services, and any service plaintiff
Judge Williams) may have rendered
did not enter into the estimate of what
was proper for him to have, and what
ever sum plaintiff (WiIliams) may get
is so much out of his (Hayeraft's) own
pocket, diminishing to that extent his
just fee against the State"
Ii is thus seen that when he was
seeking to gobble the 3, 1000 he tells the
court ON oath that he had employed
two lawyers Judge Williams, who
helped to prepare and argued the case,
and his brother, who took some Of the
depositions) to assist him and expected
to poy them out Of any fee dle,ged him
By the court, but after pocketing the fee,
and Judge Williams, who really pre-
pared the case, made the argument aud
: did the actual brain work In the suit,
sued him, he swears that there was no
contract to pay any sum to Williams,
and that he understood Williams to
have assisted him rs a matter of good
will. Now both of these sworn state
ments, which We have copied from the
records. correctly, cannot be true. III.
ther the statements made in the AMI
davit for an allowance that he had EN-
ployed Williams, was untrue, or his
. sworn statement in his answer to vii.
liam's suit, that Williams assisted him
, as matter of good will without prom
4 ise of fee, was untrue. III the affidavit
for fee was untrue, it looks very much
, like ii was corruptly so, because IL was
made to induce the court to enlarge his
, fee on account that he would have To
, pay part Of it to assistant attorneys.
III the answer to Williams suit was
r untrue, he stands in the attitude-of one
: who has got fee-a part OF which be-
4 longed in Justice TO his associate counsel
/, and pocketed the whole.
From careful examination Of the
. whole ease We find that Jno. b. Stevens
and Others had bought the Rough Greek
. lock and dam for the sum of 81, 800 a
a short time after the lease to the Green
and Barren River Navigation Company,
. and all that was necessary to do to win
the suit was to get that fact before the
court, which was done by copy OF the
records of a suit Ina the Ohio. Circuit
Court, and for the whole case and all
the work done 81 so would have
been big fee Wedo not wonder thai
Major Hayeraft is anxious to be re-elect-
ed to an Office in which he can Occa-
, sionally get jobs out Of which he can
make over 500 per day and a regular
: salary besides.
The work on the part of the counsel
for defense was not of such fearful mag
nitude. The plaintiffs, it is true, sued
for $4,000 in damages, which is the
full extent to which they could have
recovered without interest, but to show
title to the property they themselves
had to produce the record to show that
they bought il at commissioners sale,
and that record showed of itself that
they bought it for three thousand two
, hundred dollars ON the 9Th July, 1885,
So that the purchase money and inter-
est was all that IL was possible for them
to recover, If they showed right to re-
: cover at all. - fs''ss-
The evidence of plaintiffs themselves
limited them to the judgment obtained,
and not the evidence hunted up by
Major Hayeraft-
All we have said here is shown hy
the records in the case. The records Of
court of justice are public property,
and mans official acts In certain POI
! tsition should be fully known, so that
voters may determine IL he makes the
kind of an, officer desired by them. =
Bear it i'm mind that while he WAS
: engaged in this case and getting his
one hundred and thirty-three dollars
per day, the State paid another lawyer
to act AS Commonwealth Attorney
for him and allowed him his regular
r salary and per eentage just the same As
if he had attended to Ii himself.
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