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Title: The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit

Author: Richard Harris

Release Date: November 27, 2009 [eBook #30551]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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BUMPKIN'S LAWSUIT***

Transcribed from the 1883 Stevens and Sons edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

THE
HUMOUROUS STORY
OF
FARMER BUMPKIN'S LAWSUIT:

BY
RICHARD HARRIS,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
AUTHOR OF "HINTS ON ADVOCACY," ETC., ETC.

SECOND EDITION.

* * * * *

LONDON:
STEVENS AND SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE,
Law Publishers and Booksellers.
1883.

LONDON:
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

Considering the enormous interest which the Public have in "a more
efficient and speedy administration of justice," I am not surprised that
a Second Edition of "Mr. Bumpkin's Lawsuit" should be called for so soon
after the publication of the first. If any proof were wanting that I had
not overstated the evils attendant on the present system, it would be
found in the case of _Smitherman_ v. _The South Eastern Railway Company_,
which came before the House of Lords recently; and judgment in which was
delivered on the 16th of July, 1883. The facts of the case were
extremely simple, and were as follow:--A man of the name of Smitherman
was killed on a level crossing of the South Eastern Railway Company at
East Farleigh, in December, 1878. His widow, on behalf of herself and
four children, brought an action against the Company on the ground of
negligence on the part of the defendants. Th