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they [[strikethrough]] Couse [[/strikethrough]] agreed to go and see you and left my office for that purpose, and returned in about half an hour stating that they could not find you, and again mentioning their wish to bring a suit of Damages. I then advised them to go and see a Lawyer, and expressed my opinion that their suit properly belonged to the jurisdiction of the City or Circuit Courts. 
They appeared dissatisfied at this advice, and left my office stating, that they would see Gen'l Swayne and see if he could not get their rights. They left my office and I thought no more about the matter.
I have occupied the office of Justice of the Peace for a short time and am not skilled in legal forms, and have no recollection of bringing any action of Damages for alleged trespasses to rights of person and property without the direction and advice of Counsel who was brought in by the aggrieved party. I then thought and still think that a tribunal of