David Fowler

Clipping from the Buffalo Courier-Express, 22 October, 1922

125 Years Ago Today, October, 1804
The cause brought by Mr. Ebenezer Foote against Mr. Gardiner Tracy, publisher of the Lansingburgh Gazette, for a libel wherein the plaintiff was charged with being a pettifogger of the lowest grade, came in in the late circuit court held at Albany at which Chief Justice Kent presided. The consul for the plaintiff were the general and district attorney for the Albany district; for the defendant, Messrs. Allen and Van Vechten. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with $200 damages. —Commercial Advertiser.

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