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Show Lycoming Early Judiciary. "Fair-Play-Men" was the title given to a part of Lycoming county, Pa., now densely populated and dotted with prosperous towns and cities. The proprietary pro-prietary government, with a view tc protecting the Indians from intrusion, had forbidden the survey and settlement settle-ment of the region, but seme hard treat ed and hard handed Scotch-Irish pio neers found their way into the forbid den territory, and being outside the im mediate jurisdiction of any properly constituted tribunal they chose three of their number to settle disputes and call-' call-' ed them fair play men. The decisions of this tribunal, especially as to bouiid-aries, bouiid-aries, were enforced by the whole community com-munity and came in time even to be respected re-spected by the courts. When a chief justice of Pennsylvania asked one of the first pioneers what were the features of the fair play code, the pioneer is reported re-ported to h ave answered that since his honor's court had found its way into the rjgiou fair play had fled and law had lalen its place Philadelphia : Press. |