DONATION TO THE ACADEMY.
On Friday last, the suit brought by the Editor of this paper against Wm. Boylan, the Editor of the Minerva, for an assault committed on his person during the last session of the General Assembly, was determined in Hillsborough Superior Court. The evidence in support of the action was so positive, that it was submitted to the Jury without argument from the counsel on either side. After a concise charge from Judge Locke, in which the evidence was placed in the clearest point of view, the Jury retired for about 10 minutes, and returned with a verdict of One Hundred Pounds damages. To shew that the Editor of the Register had no view of advantage to himself in bringing this suit, he declares it to be his intention to make a donation of the above sum
(first deducting any extra expenses attending the suit) to the Raleigh Academy.
—Raleigh Register of Monday, October l4, 1805.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
