On 24 June 1837, Cyrus B. Fisher initiated legal proceedings against Hiram Stratton in an action of , stemming from a dispute over a cow. issued a summons as , Ohio, justice of the peace notifying Stratton to appear before him on 29 June. JS was among those subpoenaed as witnesses for the defendant.

Apparently, Stratton had agreed to pay Fisher to keep a cow for an extended period, but Fisher alleged that Stratton repossessed the cow illegally. Stratton’s initial defense was that the matter had previously been settled by arbitration. After his witness, , failed to prove this point, JS and other defense witnesses “substantiated the point, that the Defen[dan]t hired, or let a certain cow to the Plaintiff for one or three years, on the Defendants paying yearly, the interest of $25,00.” The witnesses further showed that “the cow was Kept from about the middle of Nov. [1836] to the first of April, at the expense of the Plaintiff” and “that the cow nearly paid for her keeping till the first of Jan. 1837.” The court awarded the plaintiff ten dollars in damages. Fisher acknowledged receipt of the money from Stratton in August.

 

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