Part 41 (2/2)

A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT

Mr Clark was the leader of the Metamora Bar when I located there-- _and so continued_ My first case, and the conificance bestowed upon its termination, came about in this wise I was retained for the plaintiff before Squire Fairchild in a suit involving the ownershi+p of a calf of the alleged value of seven dollars It beingthe aforeonist--and as of far greater consequence, a contingent fee of two dollars and a half tre in the balance--it may well be supposed that no effort was spared upon my part I won the case, of course--_what lawyer ever told about a case that he had not won?_

The sa thethe forensic effort of the neith that of the old-tith one Tobias Wilson, as he slid down fronificantly observed, ”Men, you may say what you please, but for my part, I had ruther hear Stevenson speak _two_ minutes _than to hear old Clark all day!”_

STRONG PERSONAL ATTACHMENT

Mr Clark--whose early advantages had been none of the best--was once counsel for the proponent in a closely contested will case

The testator, passing by the next of kin, had left his entire estate to a personal friend, ato impress upon the jury the reasonableness of this disposition, Clark said: ”This, gentle illustration of the power of human friendshi+p

All history--sacred and profane--is full of instances of strong personal attach affection of David and Jonathan, of Damon and Pythias, _of Scylla and Charybdis?”_

IRISH WIT

Judge Baldwin has left of record the witty reply of Jo Heyfron, an Irish lawyer, to a Mississippi judge The judge, having rendered a very ridiculous decision in a cause in which Heyfron was engaged, the latter slowly arose as if to address the Court The judge, exceedingly pompous and a poor laithal, in imperative tone said: ”Take your seat, Mr Heyfron; you have practised at this bar long enough to know that when this Court renders a decision, its wisdoher Court”

”If Your Honor plase,” replied Jo in deprecatory tone, ”far be it froray the wisdoned to rade a few lines froht parsave _how profoundly aignorant Sir William Blackstone was upon this subject!”_

It is difficult, at this day, to realize that such scenes could ever have been enacted in an English Court, as were not infrequent during the era e the celebrated ”State Trials” While one of these was in progress, and Curran in the e contean fondling a favorite dog at his side The argument was at once suspended ”Proceed, sir,” were the words which at length broke the stillness that had fallen upon the vast asse for Your Lordshi+p _to conclude your consultation with your learned associate!”_

ENGLISH JOKES ABOUT LAWYERS

Possibly theBurton's ”Anatoent Relish publication of a half-century or so ago, entitled ”Jokes about Great Lawyers”

Of several hundred alleged jokes, two or three will bear transplanting

”My Lord,” began a somewhat pompous barrister, ”it is written the book of nature ----” ”Be kind enough,” interposed Lord Ellenborough, ”to giveremark of an equally pompous barrister:

”My Lord, the unfortunate client for whom I appear ----” ”Proceed sir, proceed,” hastily observed the judge, _”so far the court is with you!”_

Ellenborough, when at the bar, after protracting his argument to the hour of adjournment, said that he would conclude when it should suit His Lordshi+p's _pleasure_ to hear him

The immediate reply was: ”The Court will hear you, sir, to- been out of the question”

GREATNESS UNAPPRECIATED

Gibbon has somewhere said, that one of the liveliest pleasures which the pride of man can enjoy is to reappear in athose who have known him in his obscurity

A case in point is a lawyer of prominence in one of the Western States, who soon after his appointment to a seat in the Cabinet revisited his early ho an acquaintance upon his arrival at the railway station, the visitor, with emotions akin to those described by Gibbon, ventured to inquire what his old neighbors said when they heard of hi appointed to a place in the Cabinet

The unexpected reply was: ”Oh, they didn't say nothin'; _they just laughed!”_

ALL IN HIS WIFE'S NAME

The late Colonel Lynch was for an County Bar His repeated efforts, upon a tiainst a so; the claim of the wife of the debtor, to the property attached, in each instance proving successful Iusted at the ”unsatisfied” return of the third writ, the Colonel indignantly exclaiion, he would hold _that, too,_ in his wife's name!”