The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-09-08

Harmon Kcllar. So away goes the /
verdict, and everybody said: "Set EN-
up again.
The Jones county calf case was now
moved to BlackLawk county, Ia.
Judge Bagg got hold Of the case. and
when the jury found verdict of $1,000
ia Johnson's favor he (Bagg) prompt
ly overruled motion for a new trial
and entered Judgment against the six
remaining anti-horse thieves
The supreme court OF Iowa now took
hack at the Jones county calf case
and reversed this Judgment on appeal.
Johnson, who had been worth more
than $40, 900 when the calf case began,
was now QSss) almost pauper, and
the costs taxed in court, independent
OF enormous attorneys fees and ex-
penses, were $3.50 AZ. Seventy wit
nesses were held for eleven days in the
town OF Blacl1lSawl. and the hotel had
such a boom that II declared n quarter
| lv dividend before the case was half
over. There was another trial and am
| other verdict for Johnson, who had
become so used 10 getting verdicts
that he was almost rcconciled 10 not
getting anything else. The supreme
court had become quite interested in
the Jones county calf case by this
time, however, and II promptly set this
verdict aside also.
There was sound OF revelry by
night" In Waterloo soon afterward, for
Il was formally announced that the
Jones county calf case was TO be tried
all over again. Mr.. Johnson got an
other verdict for $1,000, and the six
nnti-horse thieves again appealed 20
the supreme court. They didn't want
TO pay 81 900 worth OF court costs IL
they could help IL, but the supreme
court wouldn't reverse the Judgment.
Having been mulcted in this grievous
manner the six anti-horse thieves now
came ir-to court once more and asked
II they couldn't have one thousand dol
lars knocked off the bill Of costs they
had 10 pay, inasmuch as Harmon KEEL
lar, who had been let off by the Gin
ton county judge, ought to pay at
least one-seventh of the costs for all
the fun he had had. Judge inehan over
ruled the motion Of the six nnti-horse
thieves, but they were not Disconnected
by little thing Like that, and they
once more appealed 20 the supreme
court OF Iowa, where the case Is now
pending on this point. The six anti
horse thieves are pretty well ruined by
this time, and Johnson, who has had
TO leave Jones county, and lives near
by in Cedar county, may eventually
get back a part Of the comfortable lit
tie fortune he has blown in on tho
| a. l,11a,. anl,-aE nnTpTtE ni
lawyers have fattened on calf case
fees and one hundred and fourteen
Jurors have heard its merits Coy.
Horace Boics was one of the lawyers,
and Counselor G. Il. Wheeler who be-
gan "as Office boy 10 an attorneys
firm" when the case began, Is now a
mossgrown limb OF the law.
The plaintiff has paid out s., 500 that
, he knows of. 1.-THE costs" he says
(which stand against the defendants
run up TO some thirty thousand dol
lars OF the eight trial judges who
/ have heard the case at one time OF
. another, two are dead" Two of the
defendants, the ant-horse thieves
viz, Il. V. Miller and Abe Miller-ar'
dead. And the calf case is still very
!, much alive.
There are number OF "calf eases,
! curiously enough, which have cropped
mp and been carried on since the Jone
!, county calf began TO kick. Thoma
McGibben and Edward Bedford, o
! Kentucky, began having in 1879 over
= bull calf I'm which McCibben ha,
! bought Rcdford's interest for nine dol
! lars. The calf proved worthless. Nc
) Gibben got ten-dollar judgment
! which was appealed 20 the suprem
court OF Kentucky, where IL slum
bored TRANQUILITY for twelve years
y :. Then the Judgment was reversed an
= the case retired in 1891 at Versailles
:. !. Ky, and n nine dollar verdict rem
y dcred for plaintiff, who had passe
y away In the meantime. The presen
q secretary OF the treasury, John q. Car
y Isle, was "of counsel"
= The state OF Montana prosecute
y Robert English last December 10
y stealing cow worth forty dollars II
was acquitted; but another charg
~ was brought against him. Two OF th
Jurors got sick on the second trial, an
:, by the time the third trial was finishe
- the costs footed up twelve thousan
- dollars.
a. The famous "Winsted bull case
y ended mp in Connecticut not long ag'
" after weeks trial 10 a jury, befor
pc whom sixty witnesses testified, wit
n court costs OF $500 and heavy lawyer
no fees over n gaudy little bull that WI
ig sold a few months ago for just $40.
CT Farmer Andrew Camp and Williai
q, Zimmerman, OF Lyman, Pa, went
AT law IN 1882 over cherry tree on the
~, boundary line. The court decided
ad 1892 that Zimmerman owned the tire
w that the tree was worth 1925, an
ad that Camp must pay s9s7 costs and h
MS lawyers fee of s24O. zimmerman
~ lawyers fee was 1926.
CO A Justice Of the peace OF Huencm
Cal. i'm 1892 decided the ownership
10 a disputed hen. over which hundred
lt OF dollars OF lawyers fees and coul
ne ,.oets had becn sauandered, by takir