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Henry Eno letters to his father, January 1835-July 1837
1835-10-04 Page 1
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Penn Yan Oct 4th 1835 Dear Father I arrived safe and in good health in this place on friday evening having been absent five weeks and found all my friends well and my business well taken care of. I yesterday obtained from the court an order releasing that reprobate Hanton Merrick from jail for which I shall probably be solicited to lend him a little money to get home with - Judge Thorne called to see me before I had got home & I understand has gone to the west - I told you of a cause which I have prosecuted at my own expense and in which I had obtained a judgt by default the opposite attorney made a motion at the special term to set aside the default which was granted upon payment of costs - previous to my going away I gave him a notice of taxation of costs which he offered and had a trifling sum deducted from the bill - but he has not paid up the costs as yet and I have come to the conclusion to refuse them. as the twenty days which our rules give him have elapsed. I am now going to enter up judgt and have my damages [illegible] and leave him to make another motion if he chooses I adopt his course because it will serve me
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Penn Yan Oct 4th 1835 Dear Father I arrived safe and in good health in this place on friday evening having been absent five weeks and found all my friends well and my business well taken care of. I yesterday obtained from the court an order releasing that reprobate Hanton Merrick from jail for which I shall probably be solicited to lend him a little money to get home with - Judge Thorne called to see me before I had got home & I understand has gone to the west - I told you of a cause which I have prosecuted at my own expense and in which I had obtained a judgt by default the opposite attorney made a motion at the special term to set aside the default which was granted upon payment of costs - previous to my going away I gave him a notice of taxation of costs which he offered and had a trifling sum deducted from the bill - but he has not paid up the costs as yet and I have come to the conclusion to refuse them. as the twenty days which our rules give him have elapsed. I am now going to enter up judgt and have my damages [illegible] and leave him to make another motion if he chooses I adopt his course because it will serve me
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