The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-31
IN A SUPREME COURT.
A GLIMPSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS
FOR PART OF ONE DAY.
How the Business Ii Transacted In One
of the Most Important Branches of
State Court = Many Cases. Each of

CFCig oS AS'ON- -
that time until II O'Clock the judge is oc-
eupied in hearing the arguments on the re-
turns of writs of habeas corpus, ex parte
motions, signing orders, etc. Sat among
the crowd of litigants and listen.
"H your honor please, this is the return
Of a writ of habeas corpus for Bloodthlrsty,
the man who threw his wife out OF the
fourth story window in fit of temporary
with an emphasis on the temporary IN
sanity. The jury found that ne was insane
at the time he committed the act and the
trial judge sent him to an asylum. That
was three weeks ago, and he IS now fully
recovered and it would be great injustice
to keep him locked up among those luna
tics any longer In the name OF justice and
humanity, l come here to ask your honor
to discharge him"
ANY oppositioni"
"No."
81 think he had better stay in the asylum
for a while. He might do some other
IMP
''If your honor please. No. IL on the cal
endar has been adjourned one week by
consent"
Albright Mark it off this calendar'-
CALLING CASES.
The doings of that half hour, from 1890
until IL, would fill several columns. At
IL o'clock the judge calls the calendar.
Listen again:
Jones against Jones"
Ready for the motion"
Ready TO oppose it9"
'Tll call it again. Doe against Roe"
"We would like to have an adjournment
In that case, your honor, please; Mr.. Char
gem has gone to Albany to arg ue case In
the court of appeals"-
tFrom another quarter)-"We object, If
your honor please, to any more adjourn
ments in this case Ny learned friend on
the other side has had six adjournments
already, and as this case has been in court
fourteen years we think it about time that
there was something done in"--
"Pll adjourn the motion until to-mor-
row. If it has been pending for so long
time one day cannot affect it, and Mr..
Chargem must be on hand tomorrow OF
get some one else to argue the motion
Pill against Quack."
Ready both sides"
And thus it goes through long calen-
dar containing sometimes from 20 to 100
cases. Then the judge goes back TO the
first case, which is ready.
Jones against Jones"
This is motion, if your honor please,
to punish a man for contempt for non-pay-
ment of alimony." Then follows a long
tale with more dramatic incidents than is
contained in the average modern novel.
The uninitiated listener wonders how the
man of whom the lawyer has been talking
is allowed to live at all. Why, the lawyer
has pictured a perfect iend, and the visitor
expects to hear the judge make some cut
ting remarks before signing the mans
commitment to prison Waiti Hear the
"other side" The visitor doesn't think of
that, however, and wonders why the judge
is so cool about the matter. The "other
side" begins. Such woful story of pow
erty and struggles against adversities the
listener never heard before.
THE OTHER SIDE.
"What good will it do this woman TO
have my client rotting in jail'' he ex-
claims passionately. He cannot earn
any money to pay this alimony while he is
thereF The visitor begins to open his
eyes and wonder how in the world the
judge is going to decide the question, when
his honor says:
Hand up the papers and will look at
the case.-Pin against Quack."
IF your honor please, this is motion
for an injunction to restrain the defendant
from manufacturing DIR. Pills great ca
tholicon, which cures all diseases known
to humanity. DR.. Pill, sir, spent a large
number of years in close and contining
study during the best part of his life in
perfecting this great remedy, as our affida-
Wits show. Now this ungrsteful cousin Of
his comes forward excuse me il l use
strong language, sir and tries TO reap the
benefits of my clients years OF toll 1t IS
an outrage, sir, which your honor, am
sure, will not allow this man to perpe-
trate."
This tale of woe continues until the judge
says somewhat shortly:
''Pn hear the other side"
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" he continues, twenty years
ago DR.. Pill could not make living as
physician and so he hired out 10 sell tomb
stones He had an stack Of rheumatism
and my client loaned him $40 to go TO Osh-
kosh TO consult a physician. The medicine
he got cured him and securing the pre-
scription he began To manufacture the
medicine and peddle 1t about the neigh
borhood.
HE got little money ahead and started
q mandatory in the woodshed on the
farm owned by my clients father las our
afidavits show Now ne comes here and
tries to impose upon this court by making
pretensions TO ownership of these stolen
formulas. Why, sir, mad it not been for
the fact that my client loaned him $40 be
would have undou otedly been dead long
ago, and still be is ungrstefal enough tn
tell your honor such a story as my learned
friend has entertained you with"
Hand up the papers, gentlemen.-Stocks
against B Railroad Company. New