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380 SWEDENBORG’S PRIVATE PROPERTY. [Doc. 132.
a difficulty arose as to the division of the dwelling-house be
longing to the furnace, of which Swedenborg was entitled to
one- fifth and Brita Behm to four- fifths. The law -court, under
the superintendence of which the division of the estate had
been carried out, had decided that the dwelling rooms could
not be divided into five parts; moreover the law-court had
decided that the division of the lands belonging to the fur
nace property, and not to the estate in general
, was beyond
its jurisdiction, and belonged to the mining authorities of the
province. Against this ruling of the lower court Brita ap
pealed to the Court of Appeals ( Swea Hofrätten ), in Stock
holm, by which the decision of the lower court was re
versed, and the application of Brita Behm was granted, ac
cording to which the further division of the property was
to be entrusted to the law-court in the neighbourhood.
Against this ruling Swedenborg protested, because, he said,
the costs of the division would be thereby enhanced ; he
also protested against being charged with the payment of the
costs of the case, because, as he said, he could not be held
responsible for a false ruling of the lower court, as it was
immaterial to him which way the decision of that court went.
His protest was however ineffectual. Against the ruling of
the Court of Appeals which seemed unjust to him , Swedenborg
had recourse to the King himself, but as this was not done
within the time prescribed by law, the decision of the Court
of Appeals took effect.
By the ruling of the neighbouring law-court of Söderahla
in Helsingland, by which all matters connected with the final
division of the estate were decided, Swedenborg was obliged
to pay 484 dalers in copper for the rent of the premises
occupied by his manager, from the autumn of 1724 to Dec. 1,
1727, and 456 dalers in copper for costs.
The acts of this lawsuit were likewise discovered by Secre
tary S. Bergström, during his re-arrangement of the acts be
longing to cases decided by the Court of Appeals in Stockholm .
They were kindly communicated by him to the editor, and
carefully copied under his superintendence. As, however, these
acts and the lawsuit to which they belong have no intrinsic
value, and are only worthy of notice from their being connected
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