The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-23
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had TO prove.

in confusing a witness who is giving
wrong testimony it is well TO sympathize
with him and nurse him along, getting INTO
his confidence until ne begins to think
there Ia some mistake, and that he is net
talking to the prosecuting lawyer at ali.
BY strategy Of this kind won case for
railroad company that looked at one time
rs If the company would have to pay big
damages.
The man came into court looking weak
and acting feeoly, holding his arm in
stiff. cramped fashion. He declared that
he had not been able TO lift his arm fer a
year and a half and that it was impossible
for hi a to raise it as high as his chin, and
sill because of the injury inflicted by the
defendant.
The jury was against me- as juries al
ways are in such cases. for they will inver-
iably side with the individual rather than
with corporation and companies. 'Down
with monopoly is the feeling uppermost
in the mind of the average juror.
had made up my mind that the man
was shamming and that he could lift his
him do 50, | said TO him very patronizingly.
Your arm is very painful, is it notsn
"Very.n
overwhelmingly sos"
Yes, on, yes"
"And you have talked to your doctor
about its'
Yes
aud to your wife and your neignbors'"
s'Yes.''
"And they all know that you cannot lift
it!n
YES, Oh, yes.o
"Were you able to lift it before the acct
dentsn
sYes.n
"iow high could you lift it,"
-
Quences up went the injured arm, with the
answ r: 'As high as that" way above the
mans head, to show how high he could lift
it before it became permanently stitfened
| by the accident. OF course the roar in the
court room which succeeded this coup
d;etat dumbfounded the shammer and he
didn't get his damages. l won my case
gloriously.
| The saddest cases that come to us are
those OF girls who have been betrayed.
And these cases are by far the most FREE
ouent of any. Woman's trustfulness and
mans perfdy are the case of great deal
Of trouble. A woman falls in love and
then, by what seems to be the natural
course OF events. she is robbed of the
| brightest gem in the diadem of her exist
ence. And she comes 10 US to get redress
| We very often take these cases solely to
bring the guilty party to justice, even if
the fault seems TO be equally distributed,
| because men will not do the honorable
thing without being compelled to do so.
but when prodded by the machinery
of the law find it their only relief.
! What does 1t cost to go to lava 1t costs
sums widely varying in size. We make the
rich pay for the poor. Many of our most
celebrated criminal suits are entirely for
sweet charity's sake, because the client is
unable 10 pay cent. We take them be-
cause we feel that we can acQuit them and
score victory where others have failed.
Where our clients are rich we charge them
large sums ard make them pay all in q
lump. The lowest fee for divorce suit Is
$500 where we charge anything at all The
highest we have ever received for conduct
/; ing such q suit 10 S32. 600; the average is
about $500.
People who have once been our clients
have great affection for rs, as indeed they
do for any lawyer who brings them out
whole. And so lawyers life, instead Of
being filed with stories OF ingratitude and
falsity. very often has many u chapter
crowded into it of love and gratitude for
successfully carrying an innocent man or
woman through an evil accusation and for
helping the guilty 10 take advantage OF
every means offered by the law Of the
country. A. Fl. HuMMEL.