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Author: mwrankins2006
Surnames: Hash
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There is one mention of John Hash in the "History" on page 103 & 104:
"At the October election, 1856,
J. M. Hanna was elected Judge of the Circuit Court; M. A. &born,
Prosecuting Attorney; F. T. Brown, elected Judge of the Common Pleas
Court; Michael Malott, District Attorney; and William G. Moss, Sheriff.
During this year, there was a small but rather novel case tried in the
Common Pleas Court, wherein Ralph Martindale, one of the " constitutional
lawyers " of the bar, was plaintiff, and John Hash was defendant.
The case was commenced before a Justice of the Peace, and was brought
to the Common Pleas Court by appeal.
THE MAST CASE.
The complaint was drafted by Maj. Livingston, and stated among
other things *' that the plaintiff was the owner of a certain tract of land
in Center Township containing 200 acres, and was agent for a large body
of land belonging to Andrew Downing & Co.? and in possession of it,
and entitled to the annual mast growing thereon; all of which was
covered over with a heavy and large growth of timber, consisting of
white oak, black oak, pin oak, burr oak, post oak, chestnut oak, chinquapin
oak, beech, black walnut, white walnut, hack berry, hazlewood and
grape vines. That said oak timber, beech timber, black walnut, white
walnut, hack berry and hazelwood were heavily loaded with oak mast,
beech mast, walnut mast and hazel mast, and said grape vines with
grapes. And also, that the ground underneath said timber, hazelwood
and grape vines growing on said lands was deeply covered with said oak
mast, and beech mast, and walnut mast, hazel nuts and grapes, furnishing
to the stock of hogs and cattle and sheep of said plaintiff a good
and sufficient supply of food to last his said stock from the 1st day of September, 1854,
up to the 1st 'day of April, 1855, of great value, to wit,
of the value of $200; and the said plaintiff says that the defendant
afterward, to wit, on the 10th day of September, 1854, at the county and
township aforesaid, did drive in and upon the said lands of the said
plaintiff 100 head of large hogs, being the hogs of the defendant, and
from thence hitherto and up to the time of filing this complaint did feed
upon and eat up t,he mast of the said plaintiff, and thereby deprive the
stock of the said plaintiff of.. the use and benefit of said mast, to the
damage of plaintiff," etc.
That part of the complaint in regard to the land of Downing & Co.
was stricken out, on motion of defendant's attorney. There was a trial
by jury, finding for plaintiff, and assessment of damages at $6.
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