Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-02-12
TWO OR FOUR COURT TERMS
GREAT OPpUsITIuE - THE BILL
IN THss HOUSs.



fuI 40 contempt ate The Opposition
|
SAFE Senator Mo 8, hofLer IL trying TO
mpfess Wilmington people wI'h tue idea
'ust ai. Court bill ts ABOUT to get through
9Th fyiyg coiors aud all sa,ls Get.
4 Fhls bill aDOlishes tns February and
september terms VI ths superior court in
| uir cIy
Mr.. MoWhorter labors to impress his
fsliow members with tie idea sbat hts
| Gill has fousing popular support. He
10 credited with stai y, in the course Of
speecn on the sabject, that he can
Aardy make his wsy along our streets
ososuae OF the thioIgs OF p ople who
cluster alound, follow and intercept him
to urge him TO keep the bill moving He
stsrted out one morning to take the 8 35
=. IN. train down to Dover, but was but-
IoDholed by 30 many people on his way
that he didn't reach the depot till ] M.
Singulsrly enough this GAzErTE's rep
resenia i've has not been abe to find
| any OF these warm friends Of this bill,
although he has sought them with some
assiduity, aud he finds others with the
same experience. Said one OF our beet
known business men:
"Lois of people are dropping in here all
through the day and, I'm pleased II I've
heard one say yet that he iavors this bill.
And that's the way 1t Ia with all the men
I've talked with about it. 1t would be
an outrage on the business men Of
Wilmington to abolish these terms Of
court This city is getting too big
10 be run or the same plan as a
one. horse town. What we really need
Ia 20 rrftH Ant tatx Nd
have monthly sessions OF court with
Jury. Hang me II ! believe anybody
wants this bill except MoWhorter him.
Gelf. II he wants to be exempted from
attendance on these terms let him bring
in bill exempting Charley MoWhorter;
I've no objection to that"
81 haven't heard o single individual
say he wants these terms abolished"
said another businss SO man. 1T would
block heap of business to do SO as,
under the old system Of two terms, q man
who didn't ieel like paying his bills
could stave you off for a whole year-two
terms Of court, Now, Of course, the man
who can get his money in three or six
months can do more business and on
better terms than the one who has to
walt year."
'For goodness sake, say something
about this let the people know what
this bill means and that 1t may get
through the Legislature II they don't
wake up and say something" )" said the
head Of another large business house.
And everywhere tine reporter went the
talk was in the same vein.
He turned his steps to the court house
to learn how much ground there was for
Mr.. Now horter's statement that these
terms took business away from the law
yers Of Kent and Sussex. An exAmina-
tion of the appearance dockets showed
that, during the frat term after the pas
sage OF the Law Mr.. MoWhorter is
trying TO expunRe, there were 10 writs
Issued into Kent county, l8 Of
which were agsit at one mAn-John r.
Fers-who was req resented to have
failed Just before the term opened with
the result that the Dover lawyers rushed
IN to get judg gmerts ss soon as possible.
At the txt term there two cases then
me, and at the present term, thr,e Here
is the list, with the lanes OF the
,ttcrr.y4 h-InGi snit
:. septen ber term, 1853:
" amer S FOIn We. rsmt Fut,n.
HniehiSap pa@Ey L@mbr ~ S' y vs. ] "a e. k,y. pay
he iI saw a. re Gs6inan ma o. We W "a As" e; Day
henry O. Sp .udi gyA : me; Ridge y.
5d4Sa gsan MH u sas Bgfs 4 sf Fulton
B3pGnISi st.ISi S.t%Yt9SN y. FSsf:a :aSse; Fs Fton
sonth Branch Lumuer Q VS. ,sAlne; Kenney.
", II Lauius n 90. vs.. same; K nney.
II. Nerrman x Suus " sAnir; Fntnn
M, shannon Land o.. vs.. anne; Huhecker Hof-
AnGitw Kaul VS. same; Kinney
MatSunLnw ming VI Il. Co, va same Fult VI.
X u II q. i plncu tYr. relLp Futou
! aInss Ewing ". Bowers & Butter; HoEecke &
HnH ch Il
Atiuna securit, b ,k ". Ezekiel eming ;Nields
L. Ariman & O.. y. Iehn /. Counter; Fut u.
Sep enhcr I, run 1854
Dillon, olwel 4 % v. Lewis O. Mccoy wolcOtt
Jones 4 Mrdurd W EDWARD Robbns Davis.
Penn he Fertilize Co vs William B Hollo-
Penintnla Bone Fertilizer Co.. VS.. r. M. Hews
Co.; Biggs
TIE .wo last are sussex county casss
the others, mt.
Here are IS cases altogether (; in ak
only Of which Wilmington lawyers are
interested.
Leaving ont of consideration the 18
cases against John R. Myers, which were
brought here by Dover lawyers in an
unusual contingency, the number Of
writs issued into the lower counties has
not exceeded the Dumber usually issued
At other terms and there are, as rule,
IN return, as many suits sent trem this
county into Kent and Sussex by New
Castle county lawyers who find It con-
venvenient to take advantage Of the
April and October terms Of those counties.