Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-02
III ARP.
He Relates His Experience In Litiza-
ton before n LAW school.

= AhoFC ACNCANCA yOuA hAAt
invitation to address your law skool. II
the situation by which I Am surrounded
it is impossible for me to 60. I wish
could, for I would like to tell you all
know about law, and it wouldent TAKE
long. I'm now in the law business myself
in this place. We are engaged in manu-.
facturin it'by wholesale, and after a while
it will be retailed out by the lawyers to
anybody that wants it. Its an easy bust
ness to make law, though some Of the bills
are awfully spelt. To-day I saw a bill in
which "masheen" was spelt with two
esses and four ease. But the creates,
difficulty is understanding the law after i,
is made. Among lawyers this difficulty
don't seem to lie so much in the head as
in the pocket. For five dollars a lawyer
can luminize some, and more ackording
to pay. But he oughtent to luminize but
one side at a time. The first case / ever
had in a justice court, I employed old Bob
Liggins, who was q sort of self-educated
fool. I gave him two dollars in advance,
and he argued the case, as I thought, on
two sides, and was more luminous agin
me than for me. I lost the case, and
found out afterwards that the defendant
had employed Liggins after I did, and
gave him Ave dollars to lose my case. l
look upon this as a warning to all clients,
to pay big fees and keep your lawyers out
Of temptation.
Ny experience in litigation have not
been satisfactory. l sued Sugar BLACK
onst for the price of a load Of shuks. de
said he wanted to buy some refuse, and l
agreed to bring a load of shuks for two
dollars. My wagon got broke. and he got
tired a waitin, and sent out after the u
hisself, When I called on him for the
paw, he seemed surprised. and said 1t had
cost him two dollars and a half 10 nave
the shuks hauled, and that I jestly owed
him half a dollar. He was bigger than !
was, and I swallowed my bile, and sued
him. His lawyers filed a set-of for haul
ing. He Piled that the shuks was I'M
sound; that they were barred BY limlta-
tons; that they didn't agree with his COW;
that he never got any shuks from me. He
spoke about an hour, and allooded to me
as a swindler about IS times. The be-
jury went out and brought in a
against m" for so cents, and four
for costa Of suit. I haint saved
nary q shuk on my plantation since, and
don intend to NTH It gets less expen,
I look upon this as a warnin to all
folks, never to 60 to law about shuks, or
any other small circumstance.
The next trouble l had was ~ ie'iet
who l hired to dig me a well. he was 10
dig 1t for so, and l was % pay MN u"
meat and meal, and SIGH like. The vaga-
bond kept getten along until he got all the
pay but he hadn't dug nary foot IN the
grown. So l made out my akkount, ana
sued him, as follows, TO wit:
Old John Hanks,
To Bill Arp, DR..
To one weIl YOU didp', dig 500 90
Will Hanks he hired a cheap LAWYER,
,vho r.,sa rornd exclusively. and said a
besn of funnv things AZ INV expense, and
SnaIlv dismissed INV case for what he call
ed ia ridikulum absurdum. I paid those
casts and wen, home A sadder and a wiser
nnIled down INV little cabin and
moved i, some hundred wards nearer to
,he sn,;ne and I've drunk mity little we'll
water since. look upon this case as a
wa,nin 70 all folks. never 10 paw for any,
hing nm you'ye 90. II. and especially if i,
70 be dug.
The next law case I had I gained BY
myself. by the force Of circumstances. l
bought a mans note that was given for
he hire of a Niger bow, Dix. Findin he
would no, nav me. I sued him before old
SQUIRE McGinnis, beleeyin it was such a
dead hing tina, the devil couldn't keep
NE ont of a verdik, The feller's attorney
nlesd failure Of consideration, and o est
t,c.In' and ionis fatuis and infancy, and
,ha, the nigeer's name wasn't DIX but
Richard. The old SQUIRE was q powerful
secesh, and hated the Yankees amazin.
So. after the LAWYER had got through his
sneocb and sn;sbed his readin from a book
csIled 4. Greenlesf" I ro,e forward to an
s,,;tood. S,re,chin forth nv arm, says I,
!" Sonsre McGinpis, I would ask, sir, if
This /, a time in the history of our afflicted
oun,ry, when Federal law-books are to
ho odS;,,ed in a Southern peoples court /.
Hen, we seeded forever from their foul
5~nmin,,;on Don't n fiap wave over
Fort Sumter, and what, sir, have we to
with Northern laws? On the very
mace of the gentleman's book I seed
,hs name of the city of Bos,ing! Yes.
a. !, wos w,;,,pn in hosting, published
Po.,;n, md sold in Bos,;np, where
~. g., 49, No move abou, The hire
U;.sor ,b,n an a, knows the man
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onns sm ,re,mnn, hy hsnd;n ,he hook
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at a dollar q ousnei' 81 ne eouiueh' Soau'
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