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166 WISCONSIN IIISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
a calico dress for the injured lady, and two dresses for the
baby, and the constable to pay the costs by splitting a thous-
and rails for the Judge. The decision of the Court was coin-
plied with, though the coilstable was not well pleased with the
part assigned him-not being able cxactly to comprehend why
he should be mulcted in damages; but at length agreed to split
the rails on condition that the Judge should board him while
doing so. This was paying pretty roundly for the honors of
office.
The first jury trial held at Green Bay before ROBERT IRWIN,
of
11.
I was the plaintiff. The late JAMES LOCKVOOD, Prairie
du Chien, happening to be at Green Bay at the time of the
trial, I employed him as my attorney, and with his assistance,
I gained my suit. The defendant in the case was a French-
man. He and his friends were outregcous in their denuncia-
tions of the d-d Yankee court and jury. The next trial
which was brought before Squire IRWIN, was one in which a
colored man claimed pay for labor done for L. GRIGBON. A
jury was impanneled, when GRICSNON, tho defendant, brought
in his account as an offset against the negro's claim; and in the
account, tobacco was charged at four dollars per pound, com-
mon clay pipes at fifty cents each, common calico for the
Indian trade at one dollar and fifty cents per yard. The jury
took the responsibility to reduce GR~GNON'G account one half,
and striking a balance, returned a verdict in the darkey's favor,
at which he was greatly rejoiced, while his opponent was not a
little restive under his discomfiture.
About 1822 or 1823, DA~IEL WIIITNEY brought his wife to
Green Bay. In 1814, Hon. JAMES D. DOTY was appointed
Judge for the North-Western district of Michigan Territory,
comprising the counties of Xackinaw, Brown, and Crawford-
the two latter being the only counties west of Lake Michigan.
The first term of Judge DOTY'S court was held at Green Bay,
when he charged the grand jury to inquire particularly in
relation to persons living with women to whom they were not
legally married. The grand jury found thirty-six bills of