INDIANA JUSTICE.

Western Star, Issue 930, 14 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

INDIANA JUSTICE.

There isa district in Indiana where there is a Court from whose decision . no, suitor ever took an appeal j they were final as those of Rhadamauthus himself The advocacy of coaoe# > learned, in the law was not encouraged by this primitive Judge. The general history of proceedings was much in ,r this wise : The plaintiff went to th Squire who heard his story add made distant and shrewd, though nou*pro*< essional, cross-examination of plain-! tiff. Often he.would say: ** I shantf hear this case. There's nothin’ ia it and you ought to know it. If. you bother me with it I shall giro it -over* you.” After su ;h an spit was seld om brought- Bat if' jthijj.J Squire thought there was “something rite ra itj” he would say: “ I’ll fix you all rite.” - : , When the day of trial came the Squire (his name was Wilson) would hear plaintiff’s testimony, and,addressing the defendant, would say’s.** Maybe you hare-some kind of ue to ibell ; about this, but I know you owe like man, just as he says, and I shall give judgement agin you, no matter nliai you say.” He always did give judgement in just the v manner ihdiisatidi, If the tf appeal, the Court always remarked that it. would be more pleasant to ga. into the back-yard and settle the matter, and if the offer were accepted the defendant's .motion for an appeal' was generally overruled in two rounds sad ope knock-down. N. W. Halley, whq aopr holds a position under the door-keeper In the House of Representatives at Washington, remembers the only case in which he failed to overrule a motidin of tjjiui kind. A long haired and still longer* armed Tennesseean had come Into " the settlement ’’ (neighbours, did uqt 1 ' pear until after the war), and suit was brought against him to recover Idol, 25c for “ work and labor done at at his special instance and request.’’ The Squire cave judgement for the amount s the Tenesseean asked for a new trial. “ Come out in the bitch* yard and get it, right now,” said Ilie Squire. The Court tad defendant, accompanied by the plaintiff, ilie constable, the defendant’s son and a crowd of spectators, adjourned to the yard. In the first round,says Mr. Jjtal- * ley, the gentleman from E ist Tennessee simply stool stock-still and lejt the Squire hammer at him. A sock* dollager on the right ear, that sounded like the blow of a hammer on a shinglenail, aroused his attention., and, gimc his hat in charge of bis son, he struck the Sqnire a left handed blow tbit covered bis face with a richer red than . the rays of the setting sun or the stains of pokeberry juice could impart. The Squire bad commenced to dig a well iu bis back-yard. The Timneeseeai:) picked him off the ground and dropped him into the hole, and turning to His son, said : “ Jake take the shovel and' cover him up.” “ Hold on, said the Squire, “ that air judgement .; is reversed.” From that,day the Squire was a crushed man. He resigned- hui office, and shortly afterward went to Kansas. Rude at his decisions were, they were generally correct. He wait,;; a good judge of human nature* and, if unfitted for quiddities of law, possessed a clear perception of equity.— lndia • napolis Journal.