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Case 606 displays a little difference between the judge and certain attorneys: " This was a sute between two gamboleers. E. Krohe the gamboleer who sooed Sam Heed the gamboleer to recover 3,000 dolers won at ceards. After much swarin one way and another the lawyers, H. P. Barber and Leander Quint, argooed the caze, which after a long time they got through with. I discided that Barber was right, whereupon Quint said please your honor I never can get justice in your coort; putting out his finger and tliumb, i told him the likes of him in my country often lost their finders stealing: corn or chickens, and that if i had anything to say he never shood have justice here. I ordered him to hold his tung and shet up when he went out of coort he began to grumble again; i ordered John Luney the constable to arrest him and bring him into coort before me, which he done, and I then fined him $25 for contempt of court.

"Costs of court $100, which was paid.

"R. C. BARRY, J, P.

"Sonora, September 10, 1851.

"Constable."

Case 997 seems from the following summons to

have been one of a class not infrequent in those days,

which is judged first and tried afterward :

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County luolumne. l r.*^. ,

•^ ) atoresaid co.

" Greeting :

"You are commanded to summons Maberry and Street to appear before me at my office on the eight day of November, A. D. 1851, at the hour of 9 o'clock, to answer to complaint filed in the court by D. T. Donnalld, where in he charges them with a nucense by putting a privvy on a lot which they have jumped belonging to pl'ff, as a possesor right he now comes to claim his right as an American citizen by claiming a writ to dispossess them to have restitution according to law, with appropriate demmages for the