THE HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER |
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 4. |
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... (on reverse) and cutting Timber within those Boundaries
claimed altho it was not proved that the Plaintiff had cut Timber
on the very Ground on which the Trees were cut by defendant altho
the land on which the Timber was cut was within the Boundaries
claimed.
(8) The defendant moves the Court for a New Trial for the following Causes. 1st The Verdict is against Law & Evidence. 2nd The Damages given are excessive. 3rd The Proceedings on the Trial were irregular in the Jury's returning from the Bar and rendering their Verdict before the Court disposed of a Bill of Exceptions Which had been presented to the Court previously to the Retirement of the Jury, /involved in the Trial on which the Instruction of the Court /on a point/ had been solicited, with a Request by deft's Counsel that the Jury should not retire untill after the Court had disposed of the Bill of Exceptions. Ferguson P.D. (9) After the Trial of this Cause this Defendant moved this Court for a New Trial for the Causes assigned (Recite the Causes Assigned) which are made part of the Bill of Exceptions, but the Court overruled the Motion for a New Trial, To which Decision the Deft. Excepts, and makes part of this Bill, the Bill of Exceptions, No. 4, & the Endorsment by the Court heretofore filed (Recite Bill of Exceptions No. 4) & his Bill is Signed sealed & made part of the Record. (10) Summons (printed form) upon Gavin Adams, John Adams, John Condon and Aaron Hogland to appear as witnesses for John Dupuy, Plaintiff, on 4th of Oct Term 1813. Signed Rowland Thomas. END OF FILE. These are original papers, or "loose papers," sometimes so-called, in the lawsuit. Evidently, Abraham Hollingsworth lost the case, but appealed, and offered a bill of exceptions, to the judge, who overruled, and then still took legal exception to the Court's decision. Rowland Thomas was Clerk of Courts and Circuit Clerk of Henry County for many years. Your editor thinks too many years. This man lived adjacent to the court house and owned land there. He is known to have taken certain liberties with legal documents. In one will now in our possession, made in 1817, replete with bad spelling and grammar, lack of capital letters, etc., the copy will made by Thomas is in perfect grammar, "cleaned up to the max." This is high handed, to say the least. Lucky your editor found the original will! |
| The late beloved Irishman, Basil Morgan O'Connell, by his letter to your editor (30 July 1969) stated that at last he had run through his Dublin directories and found that one Edward Hollingsworth, paper manufacturer moved into 2, St. Michael's Hill, and appeared in directories for 1826-27-28. He fades out and re-appears in Wine Tavern St. (nearby) from 1832 through 1835, when A. Hollingsworth appears, and 1837 shows Alice or Alicia. No entry 1838 or after. O'Connell's exhaustive search covered 1752 through 1850! Edward was the brother, probably (never proved) of our Frederick. Edward has the distinction of being the only male Hollingsworth ever to appear in the Dublin directories for well over a century. Alicia was his widow. Thanks, Dear BMOC! |
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