Jury Found Verdict Of $10

The rather humorous case of the colored preacher, Rev. Rob. Gillard, against George Sathelf, jr. for the price of an 80-foot furnace pipe, was submitted to the jury Friday morning, and it only took them five minutes to find that $10 was due the defendant.

When D. Augustus Straker, Detroit's colored lawyer, addressed the jury he asked them not to consider the color line in deciding the case. Arthur Brown was the attorney for Mr. Spathelf. Had the jury decided the matter the other way it might have turned out that the suit would have been a six-cent case as that was the difference in price which the testimony showed the contending parties to believe was due.