Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — A Complicated Case. [ARTICLE]

A Complicated Case.

Here is a charge to a jury by a learned Judge, which is rarely excelled for perspicuity: “If the jury believe, from the evidence, that the plaintiff' and defendant were part--1 ners in the grocery, and that the plaintiff j bought out the defendant and gave his note | for the interest, and the defendant paid for I the note by delivering to the plaintiff a cow I which he warranted ‘not breechy,’ and the ■ warranty was broken by reason of the -! breechiness of tlie cow,and the plaintiff drove i the cow back and tendered her to the defendI ant, but.the defendant refused to receive her, i and the plaintiff took her home again, fend put a yoke or poke upon her, to prevent her i from jumping the fence, and the cow, in attempting to jump l!ie fence, bv reason of the poke or yoke, broke her neck and died; ' and if the jury further believe that the defendant’s interest in the grocery was not ! worth anything, the plaintifTs note was I worthless, and the cow good for nothing. I either lor milk or beef, or for‘green hide,’ i . , then the jury must find out for themselves how they will decide the casc ; —for the I Court, if she understands herself, and she thinks she does, don’t know how such a castshould be decitied.” I _ _ <>r | Miss Peck.—The Cleveland Plain Dealer I lias a correspondence between two servant I . girls. Mary Jane Peck, in one of her letters, I thus describes the latest style of dress, to I Martha Ann, who lives in the country: “As for the lo'necs the loer it is the more : fashunable you are an the less cloze you j ware the moar you are dresed. miss Goolra j give me a blue silk ovliers an hi cut its nec ' or! an susan. tqmmonz cut ors hers an we attracxs a grate; dele of altenshun to our aecz I promenandin in the streets like other ladys j and holdin :ip our cloz. Nobody isnt nuthin now which dusnt hold up her cloze and the bier you holzethem the moar you air thotof.’