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But the victory over the Captain did not satisfy the adventurous vim of the young widow, nor the enterprise of Barrister Ken nedy. She — to use the colloquial synonym of prosecute and pursue — she "went for" Thesiger (who had now become Lord Chancellor Chelmsford), demanding dam ages for a " fraudulent " compromise. But this was a little too much, and the court unanimously dismissed her suit; the case' being a leading one upon the powers and responsibilities of counsel. But the widow's demonstration of pluck did not end here. Her next move was to marry — not Kennedy, but one Broun. Thereupon, in 1863, came a great leading case,2 Kennedy suing her for £20,000 fees. Therein Chief Justice Earle delivered his celebrated opinion that an English barrister's fee is an honorarium; and cannot be the subject of a legal claim. One regrets to add that poor Kennedy, in the bitterness of despair, made some unsavory statement, wherefor he was disbarred, and died of a broken heart. A partnership litigation in Tennessee con cluding in a decree by Chancellor Morgan, in 1875,3 was famous for being accompanied with tragedies of a vendetta. Editor S. D. Thompson informs4 that one of the matters involved was payment of $100,000 expenses of acquittal of Isaac L. Bolton, prosecuted for killing W. Millen in 1857, in a trouble alleged to have arisen, in defense of the rights of the firm. During a collateral trial, the parties in open court, before the Chan cellor, opened fire with pistols and two persons were wounded. Soon afterwards the house of defendant Thomas Dickens was attacked in the night, and himself wounded and other persons killed. The assailants were hunted to the mountains and ' See Swinfen v. Chelmsford, 5 Hurl. & N. 890. = Kennedy v. Broun, 13 Com. Bench, N. s., 677. 'See Sarah V. Bolton, Executrix, v. Dickens, 2 Cent. L. J.. 4774 Id. p. 469.

killed. He subsequently killed Wade Bol ton, and was himself soon afterwards assas sinated. His son Samuel Dickens was killed by an accidental discharge. Wade Bolton, dying childless, left a will, wherein, after providing for his wife, he gave the bulk of his large estate to found a col lege to be named after him. After a be quest of $10,000 to the widow of Stonewall Jackson, he gave legacies to his nephews and nieces on condition that they lend their aid to defeat the chancery suit, "the gigan tic swindle of the old land-pirate, Thomas Dickens, and his ally and tool, Sarah W. Bolton." The partnership business was buy ing and selling slaves at Memphis, and aggregated several millions of dollars. Each party charged upon the other the burning of Bolton's house to destroy the firm's books. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, the "Albany Law Journal " mentioned that at Buffalo they were having a ten dollar law suit; that the costs had reached $1,200, and that the parties were just beginning to get in terested in the case. Another journal stated that a Buffalonian was expelled from a be nevolent society for refusing to pay a fine of twenty-five cents. He sued out a mandamus and was restored to the privilege of exercising benevolence. Whether the sweets of hearty fraternization were a logical sequence, is not recorded. In Indiana, in 1868, two brothers quar relled over the ownership of a barrel of salt. The case was decided in 1870 at a cost toone of them of $352 besides his lawyers' fees. In Rochester, Minnesota, a few years ago, in a servant girl's action against a merchant for wages, his counterclaim for kerosene at fifty cents a night when her " cousin " called to see her, was disallowed. In Baltimore, in 1870, a Mrs. Siebert obtained a verdict of $2,000 against a man for forcibly kissing her hand. Which re minds of the Missouri school-ma'am. Rob