The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-03
TIPSFOR LAWYERS.
May a Judge Con-
tradict a Witness
Bro1n the Bench?
SUIT AGAINST A JURY.
Wisconsin Man Convicted
Of Conspiracy Wants
Damages.
SUIT AGAINST A JURY.

Asrxsg s. gehnSons e travelins dem
sa8& who claimed 20 extract teeth
aa2nteSsty without The use Of instru-
Gn8sssR was arr6igned in the court Of
esmsnon pleas at Norwich, Conn,
eseeGs1y. charged with illegal dentistry,
end was convicted on three counts. He
ssas fined $40 and costs on each OF the
shEes counts,
May fudge legitimately contradict
81 stiffness from the bench? This is one
~ those little side issues and debatabIe
posnts that the budding barristers of
fhe Temple and Gray's Inn love TO dis
Gus at their periodical gatherings for
pratorical practice. il was raised dur
ing the recent hearing of case in Mel
bourne, says the London Chronicle, be-
fore Judge Gaunt, father of the Aus
crslian novelist, Mary Gaunt. A witness
was asked whether she had talked to
anybody about the case during the
luncheon adjournment She replied in
the negative. Judge Gaunt Immediately
interposed with 'Oh. my child, don't
say that, 1 passed you myself when
coming into court, when you were
speaking TO your mother and | could
not help overhesring remark that was
made. A sharp passage at-arms be-
tween Judge and counsel ensued, the
latter contending that the former
ought to have gone into the witness
hox before making a statement of that
character. II is a nice point, and per
haps some Temple authority, learned
in the legal proprieties will look up the
presidents if there are any, and send
us his conclusions.
A remarkable suit has been com
Inenoed in the superior court in Wis
consin, by Hector Leublow. who wants
$4,000 damages from the II jurymen
who convicted him on a charge of con-
spiracy six years ago The original
suit, which resulted in the verdict
against LeUblow was remarkable one
in many respects. With Bertha kizer,
he was convicted Of defrsuding Louise
Trabbold out Of 800 and mortgages
amounting 10 $4,000. Bertha Kizer died
suddenly, the day after sentence was
pronounced.
The Post-Dispatch Of St Louis says
that as soon as papers can be pre-
pared Chris Won der Ahe's attorneys
win institute suit in the United States
court to recover damages which they
e}ainn he has suffered by reason OF an
alleged conspiracy on the part of the
National League magnates 10 depre-
tiate the value of the Sportsman's park
and CLUB. The property brought only
$4,000 at sheriff's sale recently, when
a st. Louis syndicate stood ready to
pay SI5, 900, only that they were scared
away by the alleged eonspirators. Won
der Abe has evidence 10 prove this
claim. The creditors viii also claim
that the recent action OF the league
in FORGETTING the franchise for non
payment OF dues was without warrant
or law. because there was and is
enough money to the credit of the. St.
Louis club at Washington 10 more
than make up these dues.
At the closing exercises Of the wo-
zaan's law class of New York Univer-
@iay. held in the concert hail Of Madi-
son Square Garden. it was announced
that the university prize scholarship,
worth 5000 in two years free tuition,
has been awarded to Miss Helen st.
clair and Mrs. Mary Gilroy MulQueen.
Mrs. Washington A. Roebling won the
Mrs. ]. Hedges Croweu prize Of $50 for
the best ESSAY on What an American
woman loses by her marriage with a
foreigner" Miss NJ. Cary Thomas,
president of Bryn Mawr College. deliv-
cred the address to the graduates. She
opposed the founding of a national uni
Sersity, and oeplored the fact that
plumbers Of women had banded them
selves together IN a George Washing
ton memorial association to raise $685.
300 10 erect one of the buildings It
was announced that a fund OF $4,000
had been given to the university to sus-
cain the work Of the class.
The case Of the Montreal bar against
The Dun Mercantile Agency has been
Settled. The company agrees to dis
continue the collecting business, plead
fng that its action had been in igno-
rance of the law, which had only been
called to their attention when the ac-
ton was taken. For many years Il
has been the practice for commercial
and mercantile agencies 80 collect ac-
counts. but the young lawyers Of Mon
Iresl did not consider that they were
making a sufficient livelihood. and con-
xequently invoked the forgotten privi-
lege of the bar. Upon the company
explaining its position, proceedings
we're dropped It is understood, how
ever. that il will make no difference to
the Dun agency, which will in future
employ a young lawyer to send out the
accounts in his name instead Of it's
own.
Thomas l.. Rose brought suit in the
Cortland county court in New York 70
recover the contract price of a carload
Of cabbages which he claimed TO have
sold TO Harrison Wells at $50 Der ton.
The defense inteTposed. I'm addition to a
general denial, was that the plaintiff
guaranteed them TO he first quality.
" hereas they were, In fact, poor and
understandable: and that he agreed
that ~ the cabbages sold for less than
$50 he would stand the loss The