Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-18
! WANT JUSTICE.

I
had court Saturday, June 18th.
4 caso pending between Don Jose
Chsves V Sancies, plaintiff and
Pablo Miranda, defendant. Said
defendant made written contract
for six months labor Of one certain
orphan for the sum of sSl. Com
mcnced labor March 3lst., 1885, to
be paid i'll merchandise. Worked
one month and twenty days. De.
! fendant testiics that he demanded /.
few cents in money; ;plainti. refused
to give tho demand and he carried
the hired boy away and said
he would no; let him work anv
longer, as he could not get the noe
essaries he needed. Plaintiff says:
PAY me what you owe me and sll
is right" but finally Don Joso sues
: him on contract for damages to the
amount of fifty dollars, failed to
prove any damages. Don Jose
! Chavos' lawyer, in his high toned
speech said the reason he specified
fifty dollars in his claim was that he
did not know how much it wonli
amount to, but he asked the old
Judge on the stoo to figure it up
for him. At one dollar and fifty
cents per day for twcnty-onc DAYS,
amounting to thirty dollars and fifty
cents. Now comes the show. When
parties appeared this morning court
. opened, few minutes recess was
given to let the parties have
chance to regulate their grievances,
but the parties instead Of regulating
made it worse, because they got
very much excited. Don, the plain
tiff, got so hot the old man on the
stool had to call order. Then the
court opened again the hear from
the defendant. IIs said he was
very Ignorant and could not protec,
himself in law and did not know
what to do. The justice adjourned
court for three hours to give tho
defendant chance to take boa,
down the Ruidoso to import LAWYER
to defend him. Come on time but
the high-toncd counsel for plaintiff
made BLUFF at the justice threaten
ing to report him to tho next grand
jury, but tho bluff did not stick.
Court opened again to investigates.
the matter and the court ordered
them to proceed. The counsel I'M
ported for the defense tried for non
suit bat was unsuccessful. The
witnesses got through finally by a
heap Of squabhle from the fact that
counsel OH both sides knew all tech
nicalities in law that order lad to DO
called great many times. Tho
plaintiff boiled all over so that il
was impossible to keep him ON lis
seat. Now comes the high toned
counsel for plaintiff: 81 havo 4
right to open and close" Ho made
his remarks and sat down. then arose
the man from down tho river and
) his principal speech was in reading
law, but he shot some pretty sharp
words, plaintiffs able counsel started
, in again and did think that tho
roof would blow OF the house, as he
snortcd and waived his hands very
much trying to get on the best side
r of the justice OF thc peace, after
t threatening him to the grand jury.
AS Ao was about to wind up his
famous speech, the counsel for tho
defense spoke word to him giving
advice. l1o answered that Inc did not
need any ad'icc of his stamp. Then
a knock down between the two able
counsels i'll the court room, the de.
fendant floored the plaintiffs counsel.
1t was draw fight. The man on
the bench fined one $40 and tho
other 50, then they took q wash and
commenced again and closed the
panorama. / could have got moro
down on paper, but the case was
very exciting. One Of the counsel
. lives in Frank Lesnet's precinct, tho
, other here in our precinct, No. 2,
San Patricio. 1t took me in eyes,
ears and mouth. Fines remitted; !;
made up friends. ADAM.
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