The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-11-08
PECULIAR JUSTICE.

An Indiana District Where the Goddess
was not BlindfoIded.
From the indianapolis Journal.
There is a district in Indiana where
there is court from whose decision no
sultor ever took an appeal; they were
final as those of Rhadamanthus himself.
The advocacy of counsel learned in the
law was not encouraged by this print
tive judge. The general history of pro-
ceedings was much in this wise: The
plaintiff went to the Squire, who heard
his history and made distant and shrewd
though professional, cross examina-
ton of plaintiff. Often he would say:
81 shan't hear this case. There's moth
in rite, and you ought to know it. If
you bother me with it l shall give it
agin you" After such an expression,
suit was seldom brought. But if the
Squire thought there was something
rite in it," he would say: "rll fix you
all right
When the day Of trial came the Squire
CHS name was Wilson, would hear plain
tiff's testimony, and, addressing the de-
PENDANT, would say: "May be you have
some kind of a lie to tell about this, but
l know you owe the man, just as he says
and l shall give judgment agin you, no
matter what you say" He always did
give Judgment in just the manner indi-
Gated. If the defendant suggested his
desire to appeal, the Court always re-
marked that it would be more pleasant
to go into the back yard and settle the
matter, and if the offer were accepted
the defendants motion for an appeal was
generally overruled in two rounds and
one knock down.
N. w. HALEY, who now holds a posi-
ton under the door-keeper in the House
of Representatives at Washington, re.
members the only case in which he failed
to override a motion of this kind. A
long-haired and still longer-armed Ten
nesseean had come into ''the settlement"
(neighborhoods did not appear until
after the war;, and suit was brought
against him to recover 81. % for work
and labor done at his special instance
and request" The Squire gave judg-
ment for the amount; the Tennesseean
| asked for new trial. "Come out in the
back yard and get it, right now," said
the Squire. The Court and defendant,
accompanied by the plaintiff, the con-
stable, the defendants son and crowd
of spectators, adjourned to the yard. In
the first round, says Mr.. HALEY, the
gentleman from East Tennessee simply
! stood stock still and let the Squire
hammer at him. A sock dolager on the
| right ear, that sounded like the blow of
hammer on single nail, aroused his
attention, and, giving his hat in charge
of his son, he struck the Squire left
handed blow that covered his face with
richer red than the rays of the setting
sun OF the stains Of pokeberry juice
could impart. The Squire had COM
menced to dig well in his back yard.
The Tennesseean picked him off the
ground, dropped him into the hole, and.
turning to his son, said: "Jake, take the
shovel and cover him up" "Hold on,
mister" said the Squire, that air judg-
ment is reversed" From that day the
Squire was crushed man. He re-
signed his Office, and shortly afterward
went to Kansas. Rude as his decisions
were, they were generally correct. He
was good judge of human nature, and,
if untitled for quiddities oflaw, possessed
a clear perception of equity.