Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-31

=
the first proposition for trade?
4. That gentleman there indicating
Joseph Smith.
@. 1t is only occasionally that you are
fooled into horse trade? Laughter].
4. No, sir. swap pretty often.
@. You have had quite an experience
in the business then. When you swap,
Mr.. Nevins, don't you try to make some
thing?
4. want it to be so it will make some
thing for me and little something for
him, too; but when 1 swap with gentle
man, 1 don't want to put anything un-
sound on him.
Q. Well, now, Mr.. Nevins, you never
in your life traded any unsound property
knowingly?
4. Yes, sir; but I never doctored.
told him, take it as you see it." When
gentleman wants to trade horse that amt
sound, he says, there it is; be your own
judge"
@. What do you mean by doctoring?
\. Well, when q horses teeth is bored
out and burned out, I call that being
worked over.
Quite a number of witnesses were
put up to establish the value of the
horses. The value of the Nevins horse
was pretty satisfactorily fixed at about
$50 or S65. The value of the gypsy
horse was rather more difficult to arrive
at. Some of the witnesses testified
that it was not worth nickel for the
ordinary purposes for which horse is
used; but for trading purposes it might
be worth anywhere from s25 to $50,
according to the ability and opportuni-
ties of the trader who had it in charge.
The main witness for the defense
was Joseph Smith, one of the gypsy
brothers. He stated that he was a
professional horsetrader. Nevins came
to his camp at Rock Hill to trade
horses.
@. What then?
4. showed him small pony horse,
and he said that was too small for him;
but he would swap provided would give
him $40 boot.
@. Did you swap?
4. No, sir. I told him was not giving
of boot.
@. Then what?
Q. My brother Hugh came driving up
with another horse. He said "that Is the
horse I want" I told him that is the
horse he should have. / asked him $40
boot. He said he would not give any
boot but would give his horse for mine.
@. And what did you say?
A. told him you can consider your
self traded with.
As the result, Nevins put his saddle
on Smiths horse, and Smith tied New
ins's horse with rope. Nevins asked
Smith if he was satisfied. Smith re-
piled that he was, if Nevins was.
@. Did you see Mr.. Nevins any more?
A. He came back in about 10 minutes
and asked ME if the horse l traded him
was sound.
@. What did you say then?
A. I said, you asked me for the truth,
and will give it to you. The horse Is
not sound. He is bellows.
@. Is that the same as heaves?
4. Yes.
O. What did Mr.. Nevins say then?
A. He said if the horse don't suit me,
it will suit somebody else," and away he
60. [Laughterl.
A number of witnesses were put up
by the defendant to show that with
ordinary observation, anybody should, =.
have been able to detect the unsound-
ness of the horse, and one witness
corroborated the statement of the gyp-
sy as to the remark made by Nevins
about the horse suiting someone else.
Counsel argued the case at length.
Trial Justice Carroll delivered his
charge at about o'clock, the jury re-
tired for deliberation. After few
minutes the jury returned, and in an.
swer to the usual question, "Have you
agreed upon a verdict" Foreman
Watson replied, "Yes, but we are not
going to publish it until we get our
pay" Mr.. Mellow produced dollar.
Juror Barron said, "That is not enough.
We must have pay for full jury" Mr..
Finley produced a half dollar, and
Foreman Watson delivered up the
record. The verdict was: ave find
for the defendant.