The evening world., 1894-02-05
PET OF The JUSTICE.
MoKean Has a Favorite Known as
the Attorney-General.
Little Regard Shown for the Needs
Of the Public.
Urgent Necessity for Reform in the
Civil District Courts.

The Sixth District Civil Court has juris-
diction over the Eighteenth and Twenty
first Wards of New York, and is presided
over by Justice Daniel F. Martin.
Justice Martin succeeded Justice Lach-
listing in the Sixth District Court cannot
be fairly attributed to the present JUS
tice.
But Justice Martin, who sits upon the
bench at 407 Second avenue on Wednes
days and Fridays. could easily put an end
to the neglect and delay in his court by
holding sessions every day in the week.
The law governing the conduct of JUS
tees says that court shall be held on
every judicial day, which means, of
course, every day except Sundays and
legal holidays.
Justice Martin, whose law Office Is at
81 Chambers street, has n court calendar
crowded with nearly three hundred cases.
The law says the Justice must not ad-
journ court until all the business of the
public has been transacted.
TIL most frequent complaints against
the Sixth District Court arise from the
adjournment of cases by the Justice.
There is absolute need of speedy relief to
the poor litigants in the district.
In the Seventh District Civil Court, the
jurisdiction of which embraces the whole
of the Nineteenth Ward, the sessions are
held at Isl East Fifty-seventh street.
Justice John Is. Mexican, who presides
there. has much to be hankful for. The
business transacted is small in COMPARE
son to that of the Fourth and Fifth Dis
trict Courts.
The scarcity of business In the Seventh
District gives Justice Mexican and his
clerks abundant time to look after their
to find but fifty or sixty untried cases
upon Justice McKean's calendar.
Justice Mexican is so moral" re-
marked a weli-known attorney last night,
that he actually does not do justice in
law. The rule of practice in the civil
courts provides that all motions for ad-
l @sde sy a Gf eNfase' now Nor aei gSsti snail M be
Kean will allow verbal statements to be
made on such motions. without the first
sign of an a%fhdayit. ,,..,oo
court, / was pressing a claim of a work
ingman for wages. and had three or four
workingmen in court as witnesses.
without any reasonable excuse the Court
adjourned the case. If the defendapi
has a bad case, as in this instance, tf
best thing the Court could do would &c
10 remain at home and allow the se-
PENDANTS attorney to adjourn the fse
MS often as possible, whether he hi a
good excuse or not. Finally. a defedant
having a bad case in Justice McI1an,s
Court can let n default be taken gSainst
him, and when the execution is issued
and the Marshal comes, around % ievy
he can go into court and get thu nelauit
r%eopened. In this way the cas- can De
kept in court indefinitely. !. Row or a
case of this character which mas been
pending in Justice Mckean's court Tor
the last six months"
In the Seventh District curt, there
are 'favorites' who practise at the bar,
legal friends OF Justice dcKean is
known to his colleagues as"the Attor-
ney-General of the court,
A favorite and much-usG expression
Of Justice Mexican In addressing his
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT" Is tht:
well. counsellor. / thin the detend, Z
ant ought to have his dayin court. SO !
will adjourn this case" ~
This ruling is so COMMON in Justice
McKean's court, and the Attorney
General" represents so mny enc
in cases on trial as to OCCASION more or
less comment among thu attorneys VINO
practise at McKean's ba,