New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-30
SUPREME COURT, CHAMBERS.
A GLIMPSE OF PROCEEDINGS.
THE MOST IMPORTANT BRANCHES OF
THE STATE COURT


THE MOST IMPORTANT BRANCHES OF
THE STATE COURT.
Rap rapi rapi
"Hats off,
"Hear ye-hear ye-hear yc, all persons having
business with this court come forward and ye shall
be heard
In less time than II takes to read the foregoing the
Judge is the bench There is ceremony. no red
tape about this part Of the proceedings. at least inc
Judge comes In wearing his street. clothes, puts ms
hat down the chair beside him and begins his
! labors at The lawyers press forward to tell
the various tales Of Of their clients. and how
they have been abused by the clients Of their friends
on the other sde, This Is the in the Supreme
Court Chambers, every morning at 10 80 From that
time until IL O'Clock the Judge is occupied in hearing
the arguments the returns of wrts Of habeas corpus
ex parte motions, signing orders ETC. SIT among the
crowd OF ltigants and listen.
"If your Honor please, this Is the return OF writ
of habeas corpus for Boodthlrsty the man who threw
his wife out Of the fourth story window in fit OF
temporary with emphasis on the temporary In
sanity. The jury found that he was insane at the
time he committed the act and the trial Judge sent
him to an asylum. That three weeks ago. and he
| /, now fully recovered and 1t would be a great in
Justice to keep him locked up among those unatics
| any longer In the name Of justice and humanity,
| come here to ask your Honor to discharge him.
"Any oppostlonl'
"NO."
81 think he had better stay In the asylum for awhile
| He might do some other mi"
If your Honor please, No. IL on the calendar has
| been adjourned week by consent
| "An right, mark it off this calendar--"
(The clerk" Will your Honor swear this man1'
| You do solemnly swear that the deposition here
subscribed by you is true, so help you Godl" 0le
kisses the Bible, the clerk hands MN the paper ana
| he hrrries away
The dolngs of that half hour, from 10 80 until H.
would fill several columns Of The Tribune. At IL
o'clock the Judge calls the calendar. Listen again
Jones against Jones'"
Ready for the mOtion?"
Ready to OppOse?'
| "PII call it again. Doe against Roe
ave would like to have adjournment In that
| case your honor, please; Mr.. Chargem has gone to
Albany to argue a in the Court of Appeals--'
(From another quarter)-"We object, If your Honor
| please, to any more adjournments in this case My
learned friend the other side has had six adjourn
ments already and this has been I'm court four
teen years we think 1t about time that there was some
| thing done in"
"I adjourn the motion until tomorrow. If it has
been pending for so long time day cannot affect
It and Mr.. Chargem must be on hand tomorrow or get
some one else to argue the motion-P against Quack'
Ready both Sides
and thus it goes through long calendar contain
ing sometimes from - to 100 cases Then the Judge
| goes back to the first case, which is ready
"Jones against JONES'
| aThis is notion If your Honor please, to punish
man for contempt for non payment OF aimony' Then
follows a long tale with more dramatic incidents than
| Is contained in the average modern novel, The I'M
initiated listener wonders how the man Of whom tho
lawyer has talking is allowed TO live at all Why
| the lawyer has pictured perfect fend and tho
visitor expects to hear the Judge make some cutting
| remarks before signing the mans commitment to
prison. Wait Hear the " other side.' The visitor
doesn't think Of that, however, and wonders why the
Judge is cool about the matter. The other oide'
begins. such woful story of poverty and struggles
against universities the listener never hear beors
rottng in jaill- he exclams passonately. He can
not earn any money 10 pay this allmony while he is
Wonder how in the world the Judge is going to decide
the qucsto when his Honor says:
PHI a aaSn up tSs PaPer and Will look at the case
II Your Honor please, this Is motion for an in.
DR.. Pits great cath0licon which cures all diseases
known to humanity. Dr. Pin, sir spent large mum
Der Of years In close aud combining study during the
best part Of his life IN perfectlng this great remedy a
use strong language sir and tries to reap the
benefits Of my clients years OF toll II is an outrage
Sir which your Honor, am sure, Will not allow this
man Ths to Rspe Of @oe continues until the Judge SAYS
somewhat shortly:
IN hear the other side.n
The other side" says suavely that he can excuse
my friend for his not being acquainted with the
facts because he has only recently been called into
the case. Why, SIR" hc continues, twenty years ago
Dr.. Pill coud not make living as physician and so
he hired out to sell ombs0nes. lie had attack Of
rheumatism and my client loaned him S10 to 20 to
Oshkosh to consult u physician. The medicine he got
cured him. and, securing the prescription. he began
to manufacture the medicine and peddle 1t about the
neighborlood. lie got a little money ahead and
started mandatory IT, the woodshed on the farm
owned by my clients father las ollr alidavits show
Now he comes in here and tries to impose upon this
court by making prctensons to ownership Of these
stolen formulas Why sir. had it not been for the
fact that my client loaned him SO he would have
dOubtcdy been dead long ago, and still he Is crate
full enough to tell your Honor such story as my
learned friend has entertained you with"
d" Hand up the papers, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES against
b Railroad Company
Then follows long discussion over, an obscure
point law during which the learned counsel for the
defendant begins To read volumnOus authorities In
support OF his position. After he has proceeded for
some time the Judge remarks that be has read these
authorities hundred times. and that, In fact. he has
helped to make OF them consequently he Is per
fectIy familiar with them II Is useless for the coun
take I'D the time OF the court In reading them
Wherepon the learned counsel for the defendant boils
within and waits until he makes his closing argument
to get even with his Honor -, 49,. n, A,
extensively from the law The counsel ought to give
the Court credit for knowing little law and the
lawyer remarked sottO vOce 'Thc counsel does
such thrusts as these are not made often and only
when a LAWYER with more than the ordinary amount
OF "nerye- feels morally certain that the Judge Is
going to decide against him.
THE C0yDTCrOR,S MISTAKE.