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journmeiit of the court they had not returned. On 

 Wednesday morning, the 23d, the jnry brought in their 

 verdict, which was announced by the foreman, as $232- 

 238.85, with interest added, making the whole sum $2(J5,- 

 091.97, which disappointed my expectations, based upon 

 intelligent evidence. 



Still the city persistently blocked the settlement by 

 petitioning for a stay in arrest of judgment and filed a 

 bill of exceptions, meaning thereby, if possible, to grind 

 out of me another slice of my just claims. Such a course 

 was reprehensible and unworthy the name and fame of 

 old Boston. 



Thus harrowed we got a hearing before Judge Brig- 

 ham on the 30th of October on the exceptions filed b}^ 

 Solicitor Bailey, which were mere technicalities, but 

 my counsel, Messrs. Morse and Story, finally agreed 

 under the judge's order, to send them up, in part, to the 

 Supreme Court, and here the case rests. 



Sometime after the trial was over, the verdict rend- 

 ered, and the exceptions filed to block the ends of 

 "justice and mercy," I wrote the following pointed letter 

 to the Park Commissioners: 



The Rigid of Eminent Domain and the Wrong of 



Jury Trials. 



North American Ins. Co. Ofiice, 

 Boston, July 26, 1886. 



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Messrs. Benjamin Dean, 

 Patrick Maguire, 

 John F. Andrew, 



Park Commissioners. 



Oentlemen: — Tf all the claimants against the city of 



