The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-07
LOTS OF LITIGATION
In st. Clair County Over the
Paltry Sum Of One DOL
lar and Fifty Cents.
Ono Of the Most Novel and Inter.
estinQ Petty Law suits
on Record.

The village of Roscoe, in St. Clair county,
has probably furnished he most interest
ing and novel petty Law suit on record, &C.
cordiug TO . Sedalia attorney Who 10 con.
versaut With the case from beginning TO
end ard related il, - follows, to BAzoo
reporter yesterday, only the surnames Of
of the parties being suppressed:
Some time ago, in . county in Southwest
Missouri, there occurred the following liti
CATION: Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, wife of Or
lsndo Jones, had done sewing in the family
OF BENJAMIN Brown and sued for 81 50 for
such services, bringing the suit before E.
Quire John Red. She did not join her hus-
bands brother, acted as pettyfogger fox her
in the suit and tried the case for her.
Defendant had no attorney. In arguing
the case to the jury, said Isaac used some
strong assertions about defendant and de-
PENDANT cursed him in court and threat
ened 10 whip him, for which the justice
fined him S10
The jury found for the plaintiff in the
sum of seventy-6ve cents. Defendant said
be would appeal and the justice said he
would make out the appeal papers. The
last day Tor appeal was Saturday. On Fri.
day defend ant came TO the justice to take
the appeal but the Justice had not made
out the paper, but told him he would
make them out on Sunday and defendant
should come and execute them On Monday,
and he 1.-THE justice) would dale them back
to Saturday 90 as TO comply with the law.
II was SO agreed hut instead of fulfilling
his promise to defendant, tie justice issued
execution on the judgment obtained BY
plaintiff on Monday morning and refused
the appeal.
The justice also issued writ to arrest
the defendant for contempt of court but
in this latter case he used . form he goi
somewhere which directed the constable to
arrest the defendant and bring him before
him or some other jnstice of the county to
he dealt with for contempt, etc. These two
writs came into the hands of the constable
who lived in . little town some miles from
the Justice. Defendant came into town on
horseback and the constable arrested him
on the warrant and levied on the horse
under the execution.
A friend of defendant advised the con.
stable that as his warrant directed him t.
take the prisoner before the justice who had
issued the writ, or some other justice. that
he take him before Alonzo Anderson, then
in town, which he did. Esquire Anderson
having no charge against defendant, dis.
charged him.
Defendant Brown then, on the theory that
the judgment was void, because the hus.
band did not join In the suit, brought q
re pleviu suit for his horse brfore said
Esquire Anderson, the justice making on,
the papers. But the justice said the con.
L., Id L.
not to blame and should not be sued. So
he made out the papers and brought suit
against Elizabeth Jones, and Orlando
Jones, her husband, and issued . writ ol
replevin to this same constable, command.
ing him to take the horse from Elizabeth
and Orlando Jones and give it to Benjs-
min Brown, and to summon defendants in
the case.
The constable released the horse to
Brown, and summoned Jones and wife
They made default and judgment went
against them for the horse and costs.
Some time before that, one johnson had
bought a yoke of oxen from Orlando
Jones and agreed to pay $50 for them in
work, bet did not do the work and had
given up the oxen and the debt was can.
celled. johnson was then working fol
said Bnjamiu Brown BY the month, and
Brown took execution for costs on his
judgment against Elizabeth and Orlando
Jones, and summoned johnson Ms garnishee
on the theory that he still owed the debt
for the steer. johnson let judgment 20
BY default, then Brown paid the costs and
deducted it from Johnson's wages. This is
the matter just as it occurred, and it is
probably the most remarkable series OF
litigation on a small scale that was ever
recorded.
"a GIFT FROM HEAVEN. -