Shiel v. Maffett

This was an action by Maffeit against Shiel *317upon two promissory notes, and also upon an account. And the cause being at issue, the said Court, on the seventh judicial day of the November term thereof, 1859, caused the following, among other things, to be entered of record, viz., '

“Be it remembered, that on the fifth day of the present term, the Court having begun the trial of the case of John L. Knox v. William Fesler, for contesting an election, and it then appearing that said case would probably occupy all the balance of the term, the witnesses and parties in other cases were discharged;…