Judge — October 31, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. ounds of Rio coffee, 1 1-4 pounds of tea, and 15 yards of calico. Being a wise and prudent farmer the said Granger had a sufficient quantity of both oats a potatoes, over and above his own absolute needs and the needs of those dependent upon m, to discharge his indebtedn i y had more than 1000 bushels of each But, whereas if he s barge crop. his indebtedness to the . 1000 bushels of oats he would not feel | loas thereof having many more than were | necess to feed to his horses and his cattle, | while he could deliver 1000 bushels of pota- | tees only at crifice of comfort to his children, ‘That is to say, if had delivered Slick the said 1600. bushe potatoes, his, the said Grang e would have n obliged to omit potatoes | from the could only h ! Srnvce 811 them on the tal ye meal, to wit: din- ner. ger, having always been a liberal man to his children, had fed them three time: Ly on potatoes, and they, the said children, liked potatoes very much and waxed fat on potato diet. In consequence of this condition of affairs the said nger appeared at the store and warehouse of the said Slick on the Ist d. of January aforesaid, bringing with him 1000 bushels of ¢ according to the con- tract and offered them to the Supreme Court Respondent, ponents | of vs. Public Opinion. Case on Appeal (sc.) y it please the Court, this is a case in h the facts are not in dispute and the ration to led is simply one of nd justice, which, as administered by nid Slick and | your Honor, are interchangeable terms. * asked that the contract aforesaid be dis- Spra lick was a merc tin the village id. of Grat which took its name from — But when the si say that | the Appellant, a wealthy farmer, well-known Were brought instes atoes ho re | for his integrity. In the year 1869, to wit, % #ecept them, f She een saee | on the first day of January, Mr. Grar called for potatocs. it was admitted the option of 3 would that the contract contained oats, and that to pay potat hardship for the aforesaid c found himself somewhat financially embar- rassed owing Yo a long quarrel between his | children whi 1 with difficulty and rst way = 3 he a | ildren, neverthe- | } less the said Slick insisted on having potatoes only. ‘The clerks and emploves of the Slick and the editor of the village which the said Slick also set upon the said Granger as a repndia- tor, and called him a cheat, an 50 cent man, and aman who would scale his debts this, notwithstanding the fact as heretofore stated that a bushel of oats would buy as much coffee or tea ane other article and more calico nnd more of the other goods { than it would on the day of the contract, to wit: the Ist of January, 18 Being greatls of his employ | editor of the paper brought suit egainst the s 1000 bushels of | presided over by tained judgment a with costs. Thereupon this appeal was taken. toes in the court below, Ige Middleman, and ob- ast’ the said Granger If the Court is not already wearied by this recital it will be ir ay that on the decision of this case hangs t one other very important suit now | be brought in the court below, to wit, the | snit ef Sequinz D'Ore, rs Bo OR. OL than, in which D'Oro isa banker who tw compel Jo 1 extensive mann ud producer, to discl indebt gold only, whereas the tract reads that the debt should be y gold or silver, silver being now exeh: ter quantities of all kinds of nit was at the date of the contract . but gold having iner pidly in value than silver JON sed still more his indebted ness where it w inoyance, he prevailed upon his friend Mr. Slick to take up all his accounts. made between the 8 Slick by which the ranger agreed to | deliver to the said Slick 1000 bushels of oats Js of potatoes on ucertain date, At of or 1000 bush to wit, the first day of January, 1870, the date of the contract the velue bushel of oats was c: nal to the ue of a bushel of potatoe bushel of each would be taken in exchange | for two pounds of Rio coffee, or one pound | | of Japan tea, or ten yards of nd 80 | fur other goods which the said Slick had for | gale in hisstore in the said village of Granger- ville. Now it happened in the course of the year 1869 aforesaid, after the making of the contract hereinbefore mentioned and before the suid Ist day of Jannary, 1870, that the har- | vest of oats w od and plentifulthroaghout the region roundabout Grangerville, while the inroads of a new and unlooked-for insect y damaged the potato vines before the potatoes had reached maturity. When, therefore, the crop of oats was harvested and threshed and measured it was found that a} full crop had been obtained but there was no | great surplus, so that the price in the open | market remained much as it had been before, to wit; one bushel of oats for two pounds of } Rio coffee, or one pound of Japan tea. But calico and some other things, for rea- sons not necessary to state to your Honor, were more abundant than at the date of this contract as aforesaid, and the said Slick was willing to give 12 yards of calico for one bushel of oats. 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