The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-18

Bobb suit was born. There have been
great numbers of others. but the eldest
born of the progeny of the Bobb suit Is
remembered with affection by both par
ties to it.
1t arose in this way: Old man Bobb
was testifying. Alex. Martin, his attor-
ney-"He's dead now, rest his bones"
says old man Bobb, devoutley-had ques-
toned him, using in the process memo
randum.
when did you give your lawyer that
memorandum" asked the opposing law
yer, on cross-examination.
Don't answer that" interrupted Mar
tin. THAT question is not competent"
Judge Rombauer ruled it was.
Old man Bobb still refused TO answer.
Judge Rombauer ordered him put in jail
for contempt of court.
His attorney snaked him out of Jail
with what Sam Weller called "have
his carcass"
On the hearing of the writ of habeas
corpus, Old Man Bobb won. The writ Of
habeas corpus was the eldest born of the
offspring of old 1889. If was followed
imm ediately by another-a damage suit
spread broadcast by old man Bobb over
his son John, his attorneys and the court
He lost this suit.
Others have followed in such unremitt-
ing GREATNESS succession that it would
make a lawyer dizzy to csan them. The
most recent was filed last week, follow
ing the discovery by Son John Bobb Of
another asset, horse at No 1906 F'inney
avenue, owned by Father Charles Bobb.
Five Bobb suits are still pending now
in the various courts of the land, from
the United States Supreme Court at
Washington D. c., through the State Su-
preme Court at Jefferson City, No, to the
Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals
at st. Louis.
Both father and son Igive practically
their entire time to the preparation of
briefs. petitions. replies, replies to replies
and other legal interchanges in the suits.
Their knowledge of law through the lapse
of thirty years has outgrown that of
most lawyers, and they are still learning
every day.
John Bobb has an office In the same
suite of rooms with his attorney, Thomas
Rowe, and Charles Bobb pays almost
daily visits to his attorney. James NJ.
Switzerland, in the Laclede building.
Though he is ninety years old, Charles
Bobb is spryer and Of clearer head than
many man of half his age. His face is
wrinkIed and drawn in lines, but there are
brightness and quickness in his small
gray eyes. and though his voive is the
grating treble that comes with extreme
age his words flow as quickly, and his
thoughts come as clean, and his memory
is as distinct as it was in the sixties.
"And why shouldn't it be?" says Son
John disparagingly. HE never did ap-
ply hot, rebellious liquors RI his body.
He likes a little TO day, but seldom uses
it.
Economy and frugality is your great
constitutional preservative. The old man
now has his third wife, and would take
another probably If that one died. He
can't use tobacco. He has never kept
late hours and never dissipated. Why
shouldn't ne be as sound at 80 as 1 am
at COZ"
Old man Bobb returns the compliments
Of his son.
He quotes Scripture with great fuency.
Here are some of the epigrams he made
in a conversation lasting less than an
hour:
THE husband is not as good evidence
to the paternity of the child as the Wife
MY son has fought me like a Bengal
tiger which has once tasted a Hottentots
blood"
He made his father pay rent for the
house he was born in
SOL Smith, the actor. used 10 say