Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
He the said Justice has given in the same action and Cases wherein he was sole judge, a Contrary judgment once for the plaintifie and again for tlie Defend' by this procedure, overthrowing all solid Grounds of Hope for Justice in the aggrieved subject. Justice John Clement has done a tiling in the County, till this day never before heard oif Perhaps in all America In a justice Court held before him : Where justice Wliitehead was plaiutiffe, and a N^ew Town man Defendant the Defendant Refuseing to pay what Whitehead had assessed him, was Tossed from town to town and
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from place to place hy the said justice Clement, to wait on nine Courts successively, and at Last Whitehead Carry ed it by the Sentence of Clement ; his free holder in vain Contradicting and opposing the Judgment; Justice W™ Cornell lias in a most Ai-bitraiy manner out Braved the Law, and in Defiance of the limitts sett to the autliority of Justices, taken upon him in Ins Petty Justice Court to try and give Judgment in a Case of three pounds Expressly against the letter of the La,w. And soe much Doth he honour the Comission of the peace that he was Indicted, for Robing severall persons of their ffish and Apparell and had a Eill found against him for the same Last Court of Sessions at Jamaica, at the Commiting this fact Justice Whitehead was present, an Idle Spectator Namely suffering this wrong to be done to the men, Justice John Hunt we cannot Look upon him other than an Instrument of very great Hardships and Cruel severities upon his poor Neighbours of Newtown, and how" far he Consults their Good and Quiet in liis office, may in part appear by a few of the many Instances that may be offered In his Couduckt.