APPENDIX.



                             REPLY.
               JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
        THOMAS M. GREEN, Plaintiff,    )
                 v.                        Reply.
        THOMAS F. HARGIS, Defendant. J
  The plaintiff for reply to defendant's answer herein, says: He dcnies
that the charge, made by plaintiff in the year 1874 and by him revived
in May, i879, that defendant at the August election, i874, was ineli-
gible to the office of Circuit Judge of the 14th judicial district, and
that the defendant had mutilated, or caused to be mutilated, certain
records of the Circuit and County Courts of Rowan county, was false
or known to plaintiff to be false when he composed and published said
charges in May, 1879, and in 1874. He denies that the words, state-
ments, and language contained in the published statement of defend-
ant, set forth in his answer, in so far as the same are complained of in
the petition are, or that any part of them is, true.
  Plaintiff denies that defendant received his license to practice law
prior to August 27, 1866, or that he was eligible to said office of Cir-
cuit Judge of the 14th judicial district at the August election, 1874.
  Plaintiff says that while he believes it to be true that the defendant
did not receive his license prior to August 26th, x866, and that the
date of February. 26th, I866, thereon is a forgery, yet his said charges
as to the ineligibility of defendant are not based solely upon said
further charge as to the date of obtaining said license or as to the date
thereon being a forgery, and he denies that said first named charges,
or either of them, are based wholly upon said last mentioned charges
or either of them.
  Plaintiff denies that the date of February 26th, i866, on said license
of defendant is the genuine date thereof.
  Plaintiff denies that the charges made by him against defendant that
he mutilated, or caused to be mutilated, the records of the County and
Circuit Courts of Rowan county, or either of them, was false or known
by plaintiff to be false in 1874 or in 1879.
                                  BULLIrr, BULLIrT  HARRIS,
                                  STANTON  LAREW,
                                  W. H. WADSWORTH,
                                            Attorneys for Plaintiff
  Plaintiff, Thomas M. Green, says he believes the statements made in
the foregoing reply are true.
                                              THOMAS M. GREEN.
  Sworn to before me by plaintiff Thomas M. Green, this 2oth day
of September, 1879.
(SEAL.)                                    A. M. J. COCHRAN
                                                   Notaly Public.
  A copy.-Attest: , JNO. S. CAIN, C. J. C. C. P.

                      AMENDED REPLY.
               JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
        THOMAS M. GREEN, Plaintif,     )
                 v.                        Amended Reply.
        THOMAS F. HARGIS, Defendant. J
  Plaintiff, by leave of Court, herein amends his reply as follows:



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