The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-11-10
RIGHT PREVAILS.

frOctOr, II. M. MOTIFS, Mary MOTIFS anu
Eva Proctor, judgement was rendered in
favor of the defendants and the plant
ifs will have the pleasure of paying the
costs. We have not as yet seen the full
text of the decision but we propose to
have it and to publish it and pertinent
testimony that he who runs may read OF
this case and of the grounds the plant
ifs had for putting two poor hard
working men like Norris and. Proctor
to the great expense of such a lawsuit.
r. M. Norris was in attendance upon
court and upon his return from Reno
Saturday night he said that in render
ing the decision Judge Cheney's Ian
guage was to the effect that the plant
ifs had no case, that by testimony offer
ed they had not established the perform
ance of the necessary assessment work
during the year 1895, that there were
grave doubts that they had even estab-
lished they had a location.
The miners, mine owners and pros
pectors of Olinghouse, who were famil-
lar with this and with that fact in the
matter of the contention over the ground,
expected the decision as given. These
men are not lawyers but a ma does not
need to be a lawyer to distinguih JUS
tice from i~njusce and in their hearts
hey knew how very wrong the plaintiffs
we're and how very right were the defen.
dants.
The community hereabouts is not a
large one, news flies right speedily, the
merits and benefits of the case were
discussed, analysed and thought over,
and the community long ago gave judge
ment in favor of Norris and Proctor.
And that almost unanimously. Many
we're familiar with the ground and they
told their neighbors and they set the
seal OF public condemnation against the
ousting of Proctor and Norris, believing
those men to be right and the people
who sued them to be wrong.
The plaintiffs not only sued for settle
ment of adverse claim but they also
asked damages in the sum of five hum
dred dollars. They evidently worked OH
the lines that if they could do Norris &
Proctor, they would do them good-do
them to not only take their mining
ground but everything else they had.
The little all that these industrious young
men have saved through the years
would have been swept from them and
they would have been compelled to begin
the world anew.
As the matter stands Proctor & Norris
have been put to an expense that will
take hours of toll for them to pay. Their
bodies will ache night after night and
many drops OF sweat will stream from
their brows and many thoughts OF the
injustice done them by the plaintiffs
will rancor in their hearts ere they have
paid the expenses OF this fight against
plaintiffs to maintain what is and was
their own.
Love of pelf causes men to do inhu-
man things and we know nothing more
inhuman and brutal than to, without
cause, ruin a neighbours peace of mind
by subjecting him to trials that lead him
to believe his fellow nan is only Il iend
in human form DESTROYS of his downfall,
no matter how it may be accomplished,
and no matter if it drag down his wife
and his child and all hat is his.
But Proctor & Norris were not the
only people who had to stand injury
and abuse through the litigation over
the Ora. The sufferers were many
and the perniclous influence was
great. As a pebble cast into the
pond sends the ever widening waves
in circles to the shore, so has this law
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