| Show COSTLY litigation law to la always an expensive ex penal ve luxury but it sometimes takes on the shape of ruinous extravagance A story is told of a stubborn old kentuckian who was once sued a for a small amount payment of which he be refused to make and stubbornly resisted judgment was ob ta ned against him whereupon he promptly appealed and the appellate court affirmed the judg judgment dment first obtained with largely increased costs another appeal re hearings etc fol owed but the limit WM was reached at last and he was compelled to settle the original amount having been increased probably a hundred fold As AB he be hand ed over the money he said with a sigh farewell to american li bertyl 1 1 the kentuckian Is experience is equaled if not surpassed by that of two men in providence rhode island who for three years last past have been fighting in the courts over the owner ship of a spavined buckskin mare the original price of which was sixty five dollars the mens names are henry W salisbury and william and the case to is deemed of sufficient importance to make it the subject of a special telegram to the new york world from which it appears that salisbury thought he had i he worst of the trade and in october 1889 brought suit against greene in the common pleas court the jury awarded hiru him the defendant obtained a new trial at the december term of that year and the case was continued to the june term of 1890 when the plaintiff secured a verdict of 61 greene carried the case on exceptions to the supreme court and it third trial was ordered in september 1891 the jury found a verdict for oreene greene then salisbury appealed to the supreme court and secured a fourth trial after a bearing of four days ad the examination of fifty witnesses the jury has found for salisbury for 1760 1750 it is understood that oreene greene will again appeal to the supreme court the case has already cost coat the litigants several everal thousand dollars how long this performance Is if likely to continue cannot be told but that it will not be circumscribed by any act of the law or action of the lawyers is in already shown probably one or both the litigants will run out of money and exhaust all other resources s some ome time and then it is safe to say I 1 the matter will drop with the traditional dull sickening thud |
