ANGLO-CELT APRIL 27, 1854 BELTURBET PETTY SESSIONS--Saturday, April 22 Magistrates present--Captain PHILLIPS, Thomas KNIPE, James H. STOREY, and John GUMLEY, Esqrs. WHAT IT IS TO APPEAR BY ATTORNEY Wm. WINSLOW a. Thomas MOORE This was a complaint of trespass by defendants cattle on complainants clover on three different occasions. Mr. John ARMSTRONG appeared for the complainant. Captain PHILLIPS--It must be a bad case when you are obliged to appear. Mr. ARMSTRONG--Oh no your worship, but there are troublesome people to be dealt with here. MOORE--Oh, Mr. ARMSTRONG you're always engaged when the case is bad. WINSLOW's servant boy proved the trespass and he himself proved that his fences were in good order, and that no fences could keep in defendants cattle for they were starved. MOORE's son asserted that the fences were bad, and that complainant was a bad character. Complainant--The more like yourself that way. MOORE--Sure if you had not a bad case you would not bring Mr. ARMSTRONG here. John LITTLE appraiser was called to prove the fences bad. WINSLOW--Oh don't listen to him, gentlemen, he's at variance with me. Witness--Begone you scandalous fellow, I'd be respected anywhere, not all as one as you. Witness--I divided the fences between the parties. To Mr. ARMSTRONG--I was not called on by LITTLE to make the fences, but I'll give you a bit of an act. No trespass can be sustained according to the act where the fences are not made up. If WINSLOW was a good character he'd settle the case at home like a neighbour. Oh, boys dear think of him bringing an attorney here in such a case. Now, Mr. ARMSTRONG, I'll make a fair offer--Will you leave it to Father WIilliam, pointing to the Rev. Mr. M'AULEY, to settle between two good Protestants, tho' troth I think they're both unsanctified christians. The case was dismissed. The Police a. Kitty FARMER, and Wm. LITTLE, and reciprocally When this case, or rather pair of cases, had been called upon, Mr. John ARMSTRONG who appeared for Miss FARMER and Mr. LITTLE, called for an adjournment, as Mr. LITTLE was unwell and the other party, whose interest was identified in the matter, could not, it may be presumed, appear without an escort. To this end he produced a certificate from Dr. COYNE, stating that Mr. LITTLE was unable to attend, and another from Surgeon ROE (illegible) it appeared that he was 'subject to irritation.' Mr. COCHRANE, who appeared for the police, opposed the application as putting his clients and himself to considerable inconvenience. Dr. COYNE's certification was most (illegible) for it did not state what in particular was the matter with him that Mr. LITTLE 'could not attend'. Surgeon ROE's was even more extraordinary, for if every man who was 'subject to irritation' was, therefore, free to absent himself from the court before which he was summoned to appear, therefore every man whose better half was excitable or his cook none of the (illegible), or his washerwoman oblivious as to the necessity of his having buttons in his shirt, would "ipso facto" be exempt from any consequences of his own misdemeanour, for all these things were quite calculated to irritate. The Bench agreed to the application of Mr. ARMSTRONG, stating at the same time that if another postponement were proposed, the medical adviser of Mr. LITTLE should attend in person to prove the incapability of attending. (We understand that the case is rather an important one, involving an alleged opposition by Mr. LITTLE and Miss FARMER, to an Engineer of the Belfast and West of Ireland Railway Company, Mr. ROIRDAN, when he came on the business of the company to Mr. LITTLE's property through which the line is intended to pass. The police came to the assistance of the engineer, and they say that they were obstructed in the prosecution of their duty upon the occassion, by the active energy of Mr. LITTLE, and more particularly of Kitty FARMER. They, on the other hand, charge the police with assaulting him. After Saturday work we shall be able to tell more of the case.) ___________________________________________________________ County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project