The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-08
INDIVIDUAL OPINION.

The failure of the jury to agree in the
malpractice case tried here last week
in the Superior court has caused consid
cradle discussion among lawyers and 9TH
ers touching the. jury system.
II have often thought, said Judge
Starbuck, who tried the case, that there
ought to be some reform in the system.
/ am not sure but that it would be an
Improvement to require only two-thirds
or three fourths of the jury to agree for
a verdict in a civil action 1t may be
safely said think that all verdicts are
compromises and it not infrequently hap
pens that the minority-one or two men
force the majority to agree with them in
order to get verdict. Certainly in some
respects our jury system is a relic of
the old Richard Roe and John Doe bar
barisms."
when / read the News and Observers.
amusing account of the argument before
the Supreme court in the Kilgo
case, l was reminded of an old anecdote
/ once saw in an almanac, said gen.
tleman who must here be nameless. 1T
was a description by one Bill Simpson of
his trial for hog stealing, and went some
thing after TINS IaSnlOn.
81 went out into Tennessee and one
night measley little old shoat attached
itself to me and the FELLOW that owned
it had the impudence to accuse me of
stealing it, and they took me to court for
a trial. One fellow got up in high chair
and bossed all the rest. Twelve men got
in a huddle in some other chairs over
in the corner of the room and looked at
me curious-like. One lawyer appeared
for me and one for the hog. After the
fellow that owned the hog told all he
knew and ding sight more the two law
yers quarreled some and one time /
thought they would fight, but they didn't
and seemed to be pretty good friends
after it was over. They talked about
me and the hog when they were not
abusing each other. They mostly called
me bill Simpson" and sometimes it
was mr. Simpson" but that was dinged
seldom.
and So" continued the speaker, Gin
the argument of Kilgo's counsel before
the Supreme court. there seem to have
been occasional references to Gattis, but
it was ding seldom, for Judge Clark was
the burden of their song.
Prof NJ. H. Holt, one of the princl-
pals of Oak Ridge Academy, is in the
city representing a book company. Prof.
Holt is very proud of the record his
boys are making in athletics. He said
yesterday:
1--WE have a man from Oak Ridge on
the Pittsburg team (Mr. Wicker) who
gets $500 a month, Mr.. Taylor is on
the New York team and is getting $3.50
a, month. Mr.. Carter is with the Omaha
team and is getting $125 month, and
Mr.. Stafford is captain of the Whining
ton team"
cat such salaries as that it would not
be a bad idea to establish department.
in the schools to teach baseball play
ing was suggested
s'Well. do not have exactly that" he
laughed but we attain practically the
same end in a different way.
Mr.. H. C. Brown, clerk to the Cor
poration Commission has made uni
que attachment to the map OF North
Carolina prepared by him for the Coz
poration Commission. He has taken
one of the lapel button pictures of
Governor Aycock and fastened 1T over
the location of Goldsboro in the Wayne
county space on the map. This way
of designating the homes OF the GOV
ernors might we'll be of great value
in teaching history and geography IN
the schools. BY attaching reduced
size picture of each Governor to the
county from which he came pupils
would be impressed and taught quickly
what some of them never learn ana
what very few North Carolnians know
today. An extension of this plan to the
entire United States with the picture
of the present Governor attached to
each State would be capital thing
The weather man was yesterday pre-
dieting cool spell though he alwayz
took pains to add the pleasing assut-
ance that it wouldn't last long.
There was frost in Dakota this
morning" he said. THE frost line came
down as far south as Dodge CITY, ran
sas, and we'll probably get some OF the
cool breezes from that section during
the next two or three days.
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