Daily Republican., 1884-05-24
PRICE ONE CENT
SUPERIOR COURT.
roNC1. .UsION OF THE CLAYTON
saNWDRICK CASE-DAMA6E
FOR A DOG BITE.

Courr re-couvened at 3 O'Clock Friday
aftarnoon. and argument was resumou
in thu Clayton.Scowdrick case. .Johll
R;ogs. EsG.. asked the Court to INSTRUCT
The iurv on several points Of law, and
at M q IL o'clock opened his argument tG
| the Jury. He continued to speak unCi,
4, 90 O'Clock, and the jury was tne1
charged by the Chief Justice and retlreo
The case Of Gunnis, Barritt g. Co, w.
Charles r. Ewing, was settled py
Judgment being entered for the pam
tiff. =,
Peter Warner, W. Jacob F. Cham Der'
lin taken up for trial, with Herbert ID.
Ward, Esq, for the plaintiff, and Lore
& Emmons for the defendant
The case was opened by Mr.. Ward'
who stated that this was q suit 70 re-
cover for injuries inflicted on the plain
tiff by dog belonging to the defendant.
Sometime in July the plaintiff went tc
the defendants house to obtain some
milk, as he had been in the habit o.
doing for some time, when tne ooe
sprang upon him and injured him paa'
Peter Warner was sworn, and testl'
fed that he resides on Elliott avenue,
Brandywine; on the 14th day of July,
1883. he went to Chamberlin' house, as
he had been accustomed to do, to get a
mint of new milk, which was given to
him by the defendants wife just al ne
turned to 20 away he heard a scream
and a proWl, and felt himself seized in
the calf of his leg by the dog; Mrs.
Cham berlin offered to give him some OF
the dogs hair to put on the wound, the
same as she had given an Irishman who
had been bitten short time previous
by the same dog.
The witness not having any faith IN
this remedy, refused to accept the hair,
and went home, but afterward went tG
Gallagher's drug store, where the wound
was dressed and cold applications or
dered. >,
The next Sunday the defendant call
ed at the witness house, and upon be.
ing shown the wound said it was bad
one, atd he would not have 1t himself
for thousand dollars. He offered tt
kill the dog, but the witness told him i
was no use to do that, as he shouie
have done it when he bit the Irish
man.
The witness peddled spectacles ant
opera glasses through the country TO-
the purpose of earning a living, ant
also to find place in which to per
manently locate. Previous to being bit
ten, he would walk eighteen miles
, day, but he was not able TO walk Tor
month after receiving the bite, ant
now can only walk short distance q
5 a time,
The witness is a native Of Edenboro
: but for the past twenty-five years han
resided in Northumberland, England
where he he'd the position of bailitf ii
Q the court. 1t was part of his dutle
: to make levys, arrest persons charges
, with crime, and transact her bus mes
= for the court, in the pursuit of which
he sometimes walked forty miles
h day.
II He has been in this country abou
thirteen months, having arrived q
4 Castle Garden, New York, in Apri
1883, and came to this city on the 13t
Iof the next north. When he wa
i bitten, he had very little msney, bu
had arge stock OF goods on hand, bu
, before he was able to 60 out to sell !,
y he was compelled to dispose Of tn
greater part at a sacrifice, and pawne
|. three hundred dollars worth of photo
is graph lenses in Philadelphia, for 81.
land has not been able to redeem them
9 As he is now rendered unfit to folloN
Il the business of a peddler, he intends
- return to England as soon as possible.
r. The witness was subjected to sever
!. and searching cross examination by MI
. Emmons, during which he lost hi
temper several times. At $40 o'cloc
q the jury was discharged until
q O'Clock this morning.
y The jury in the Clayton-Scowdric
case returned shortly after 6 o'cloc
!, with a verdict for the plaintiff.