Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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o continued until sold to the plaintiff. ^ Hav-ing been present at the sale, and hearing thewarranty, the witness afterwards inquired ofthe defendant why he had done so, knowingthe horse to be unsound. He answered byinsisting that the horse was in no way dis-eased, or in unsound health, but that thedrooping appearance arose from his being be-witched, which he did not call unsoundness, Lawrence CommonPleas. Term 1828.Enoch H. Fleece. J Action on the case, for<i false warranty in the sale of a horse. Plea,general issue. The plaintiff having proved the sale andwarranty, called a witness to prove thedefendants knowledge of the unsoundness ofthe horse at the time of sale. This witnesstestified, that both he and defendant lived atUnion Furnace, in Lawrence county, and thatthe latter was by trade a tanner; that *he,witness, knew the horse previous to the saleto the plaintiff, and before he was owned by JOHN A. CAMPBELL,Aged 82 years, the veteran iron-master. Father and Founder of Ironton.
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J. N. Bradford, del., 0. S. University. The Old Hecla Furnace, The celebrated gun known as the Swamp Angel/ of Charleston Harbor, was cast from Hecla iron. 3°9 LAWRENCE COUNTY. 3ii and so soon as they could be got out of thehorse he would then be as well as ever. The defendant further stated, that thesame witches which were in that horse hadbeen in one or two persons, and some cows,in the same settlement, and could only bedriven out by a witch doctor, living on thehead waters of the Little Scioto, in Pikecounty, or by burning the animal in whichthey were found ; that this doctor had sometime before been sent for to see a youngwoman who was in a bad way, and on exami-nation found her bewitched. He soon ex-pelled them, and also succeeded in ascertain-ing that an old woman not far off was thewitch going about in that way, and she couldbe got rid of only by killing her. At somesubsequent time, when defendant was fromhome, his wife sent for witness and others, tosee and find out what was

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