The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-14
How an Intelligent and Manly
Young Man, of Old Columbia
County, Sets HeZekiah Nc
COrkle a Good, Christian
Example

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that he has been mistreated by somebody.
Every member of the bar is familiar with
this fact. In large practice, which extended
over quarter OF century and which in
volved thousands of cases, it was natural that
| should have had few of these disagreeable
experiences. One of them is now being used by
Hardwick in the Tenth District. It grew out
OF my carelessness In not demanding three
little notes when | settled with the admins
traitor of H. O. Williams the three hundred
and nineteen dollars due him.
The debt was for a small town-lot which /
bought from my friend II. O. Williams, for
three hundred dollars, giving him three notes
for the purchase money. Mr.. Williams died
before the maturity of the debt, and III. Nc
Corlzle qualified as his administrator
In the fall of 1886, the year after Mr.. Will
hams died. [ sold the land to Mrs. NJ L.
Bond, now living at Double Branches, Ga.
When she paid me the last of the five hundred
and fifty dollars, McCorkle was present in my
office, and I paid him the balance due the Will
liams estate. She Is Mving, umimpeach0bze
qcit1oess to the settlement. In 1899, when the
notes had been out of date several years, Nc
Corkle sued me on one of them [ pleaded
full payment and the statute of limitations,
just as you would have done. Had he asked
me to arbitrate the case with him. instead of
suing me before an unfriendly Justice of the
Peace, [ would have consented. I offered to
Je0ve the matter to his cOnorddes of the Me-
Du16e Camp of Confederate Veterans. This
proposition qcas made to him through mig
brother, ". Il. Watson, qOho IS member of
McC0rhze's 0a0n church. lie declined 1t. In
other Words Mr.. McCorkle refuses to give me
a chance to convince him that he is in the
wrong
Very different, am happy to say, was the
conduct of young Pinkney Blanchard, of Co.
lumbia County. The Hardwick men, know
ing that the sons of Jerry Blanchard had in
herited a belief that [ had msitreated their
father by collecting the same claim twice, at
tempted to get from Pinkney statement sim
liar to that which they obtained from Mr..
McCorkle. He declined to give it; but wrote
me, reiterating the statement concerning the
execution which he thought [ had allowed to
come against his father twice As IN the Mo-
C04hze case, / asked for q chance to prone, By
court records, that had dome nothing q0r0ng.
Mr. Blanchard consented, and did not break
has agreement as Mr.. McCorhze did, after
he, NcCorhze, had promised at my house to
meet me at the Ordinarys office at 10 o'clock
the nert morning, to inspect record, aohich
he had had to support by saoorm testimony IN
1886 before Judge Thr0Sher could grant him
an order to maize me q deed.
Applying to the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Columbia County for transcript
from his records, that courteous official, Mr.
L. E. Blanchard, promptly furnished what
was desired. This e0idence convinced the
blanchard boys that they had been 1a60441ag
mader a depzora6Ze mistake. The following
certificate explains itself:
To Whom it May Concern
beg to say that in certain transaction be-
tween nv father, Jerre Blanchard, and Mr.. Thos.