Spring Term  AD 1886
            Thursday My 6th 1886

       Thos M. Fodville     }
# 14             vs         }
       Fla Transit & Pen RR }  and now this Cause is Contd

       Sherwood & Harvard }
# 34             vs       }
       Fla Ry & Nav Co    }  and now this Cause is Continued

       Jacob Katz           }  Ashby Scott & Thrasher
# 20             vs         }  Action on the Case
       The Florida Southern }  R.W. Davis & Gillis
       Railway Company      }
                              And now this cause coming on to be
       heard and the parties plaintiff and defendant appearing in
       open Court by their respective attorneys and now the
       issues being Joined a Jury was called and there came
       1 D.A. Robertson 2 Charlie Mixson 3 G.T. Erickson 4 Geo
       S. Merchan 5 D.C. Fink 6 D.G. Harvard who were duly
       Sworn and empanelled to well and truly try the issues joined
       and the Jury aforesaid after hearing the evidence the
       argument of Counsel and the Charge of the Court retired
       to consider of their verdict and thereafter on the same
       day returned into open Court and rendered the following
       verdict to wit: Gainesville Fla May 6/86
       We the Jury find for the plaintiff ($25000) Two hundred
       & Fifty Dollars as damages  so say we all
                                      Geo S. Merchant
                                             Foreman
       Whereupon it is ordered Considered and adjudged by the
       Court that the Plaintiff do have and recover of and from
       the Defendant the Sum of Two hundred and fifty dol
       lars for his damages together with his Costs in this be-
       half expended taxed at Twenty Four  Dollars
       and Fifty Eight cents, and the Defendant in mercy &c

       J & T Kydd  }  Taylor & Sanchez
# 39       vs      }  asspt
       W.L. Finger }  Hampton & Hampton
                     And now the Continuance granted in
       this Cause on yesterday is this day opened up and
       now this cause coming on to be heard and the parties
       Plaintiff appearing in open Court by their respective
       attorneys and the issues being joined. Whereupon