Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 40
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, December 4, 1902

HAYDEN WINS DAMAGE SUIT.

Gets $15,000 Against Cranfill et al.

    Dallas, Tex., No. 26.--The third trial of the famous Hayden-Cranfill suit involving many leading men of the Baptist church in Texas ended at 10 o'clock tonight after being on hearing before Judge Morgan for six weeks.

    The jury brought in a verdict in favor of S. A. Hayden for $15,000.

    Rev. Hayden and J. B. Cranfill and others for $100,000 for libel and for being deprived of a seat in the general Baptist con (missing) of Texas at San Antonio in 1897.  The case has been before the courts ever since.  On the first trial $30,000 was awarded Hayden, but a reversal was secured, a second trial resulted in a hung jury.  The Rev. Hayden is editor of the Texas Baptist Herald and the Rev. Cranfill is editor of the Baptist Standard.

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