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Litigation In New York

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
September
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent ot tlie Albany Atlas v as furnished a statement of the c igs of the New York Court of Errors. I ! appears ihat at the firsl term of the a ourt in 1842, forty causes were decided n y the Court. The expenses for the pay e f the members and officers of the Court 8 ere $19,550,90. The estimated d Rnse of collecting this from the Ï' rs of the State is $1,965,99, making the 'tal costs of the Court for 40 suits, ' 15,89, or Jive hundred and tkirty-sevcn Mars and eighty-nine cents for each vuse decided. The Court was in session t( 10 days. ín 1843 fifiy-eight causes were tl icided, the cost of pay ing the Court S aging $467,33 to each cause. ín 1844, ?ty-six causes were decided, at a cost ( r Court expenses of $452,89 to each v use. The members and officers of the tn aurt who are paid for attendance are or out forty a day, and the aggregale of ce eir time spent is upwards of 7,000 days as ch year. Thus it requires about one G ndred and forty day's work of one man, co half a year's labor,to straighten the a rs in each causeí Such are some of the a" auties of modern jurisprudenco, being be thal part of a system so ancient and foi nerablo that "the memory of man rel :h not to the contrary"! to

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Signal of Liberty
Old News