The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-02

hard working judges in this country
would think they were in clover If they
had no more to do than that
jeremiah O'Leary was indicted at
Cork assizes for stealing a COW. He
was found guilty. and on being asked
by she judge whether he had anything
10 say before sentence, he exclaimed:
The devil a word your honor; and It's
nay opinion CRATE deal too much has
been said as ii is In one of the Dub
lin police courts a laborer was SEN
fenced to a fine Of twenty shillings or
seven days Imprisonment for being
drunk and disorderly. "Begorra, your
worship, you hatter nsa intoirely," he
replied. Sure. I never knew before
my time was worth so much"
Many good storiss are told in legal
circles in Ireland of encounters between
lawyers and judges in court. John Phil
pot Curran, in the early days of his
struggles at the bar, appeared in case
before Mr.. Justice Robinson, the author
Of several law books, and, in combating
some opinion Of his opponent, said that
he had consulted all his law books, and
could not find a single case in which
the principle contended for was estab-
lished Il suspect. sir said the judge,
that your law library is rather limit
ed" 1t is very true, my lord, that
owing TO my circumstances my library
is rather small" replied Curran. But
have prepared myself for this high
profession rather by the study of few
good law books than by the composition
of great many bad ones" on another
occasion, before Lord Chancellor Clare,
he laid down some points Of law which
did not find favor in the mind of the
judge. IF that be law, l may as well
burn my books said Lord Glare. Bet
ter read them, my lord" replied Curran.
According to a newspaper account the
New York supreme court, appellate di-
vision, recently handed down a decision
In an action brought by the proprietors
Of the Hoffman house vs.. Joseph v. Jor-
dan, holding in effect that a hotel is
bound by the acts Of its clerk. The de-
PENDANT in this case was guest of the
hotel and, when he came to leave, he
had his bill charged to the dividend ac-
count of one of the hotel proprietors
whose note he held for several thousand
dollars. The clerk of the hotel told Jor-
dan that his account was discharged,
and, flashing the full glare of his dia-
mond upon the situation, gave him to
AfterWard the hotel brought suit for
the amount Of the bill. The court held
that the action of the clerk In declar-
ing the account discharged was binding
on the hotel. Truly, the hotel clerk is a
mighty man.
A Georgia justice of the peace, labor
ing under the mistaken idea that mar
riage celebrated by magistrate could
be dissolved by the same officer, was
accustomed to reetify the marital diff
culties of the neighborhood by loosing
the shackles which he had forged. AL
though the philanthropy of the worthy
though misguided jurist brought him in
time under the ban of the law, yet his
methods are deserving of earnest atten-
ton as suggesting a means for relieving
the higher courts from the eyer-increas-
ing pressure of divorce business.
Wife beaters in Germany are pun
ished' in a peculiar and yet sensible
way. They are not imprisoned, as in
this country, but are arrested every
Saturday after their weeks work is
over, and kept in durance until Mon
day. This is done regularly every
week until their sentence has expired,
the object, of course, being that the
delinquents may during the week earn
money for the support of their fami-
lies.
The Chickasaw legislature in session
at Tishomingo, Idaho territory, has
passed the bill raising the fee for the
marriage licenses from $50 to $1,000. The
measure is aimed at white men who
marry into the tribe to profit by the
annuities and lease money drawn by
female ChickasaWs.
1t has been decided that to be legal
ly entitled 20 those moneys, white men
must have married In accordance with
the laws of the Chickasaws.
Speaking of the sitting of the Rennes
court martial, which begins at O'Clock
in the morning, an old lawyer remark
ed says the Utica Observer: II think
it is pity that Martin Grover is dead
for if he were living, he would be able
to point to Col, Jouaust as the latest
convert to his theory Of making judges
work Why, when Judge Grover was
holding circuit in Wyoming, he amused
all the lawyers he didn't disgust by
opening his court at 5 o'clock in the
morning, and running 1t with only an
hour off at noon until 8 in the evening
/ fTaint as long as farmers have t.
work, explained this wise old jurist;
! and III tell you what it is, IL l had
/ my way, I'd open court at every day
in the year
And what would you do before thai
| time in the morningY asked one OF the
attorneys who was standing by.
I'd get up and dress and eat my
breakfast and saw wood until the time
came for the court to oDen,' responded
| the judge calmly.
"Out Of that statement grew the fio.
| ton that Judge Grover, while working
/ the lawyers eleven hours a day, wal
/ paying his board by saving wood be
tween times for the family with whom
he boarded"
Winfield, Kansas, has a justice of the
| peace who Is stickler for the princi-
I pies of the law. In a recent lawsuit in
his county a Winfield lawyer suddenly
/ found himself up against that trou-
frauds. His clients cause had justie,
to spare and would have prevailed cas-
lily had 1t not been for the statute. II
his desperate efforts to steer around tn,
law, the attorney had resort to thu
subtle cunning Of sophistry, anS
rounded, as he thought, the jagged
corners of the cruel statute. but jus
as he felt that victory was his he me
the cold glitter of the courts eye ant
saw that sophistry would not go. H,
then began to call the attention of tn,
court to the fact that the plaintiff wal
Ian unconscionabie scoundrel, anC
warmly invoked the rule of simple jus
lfice. AS he warmed to the occasion
and eloquently pictured the beauties O
justice. the court, with lowering brow
and flashing eye, said
stop right there ! understood tina
the question before me is one of law
You have several times referred to tn,
plaintiff as rascal and a scoundrel
land are now talking vehemently and In
coherently about Justice. / want yol
to understand, sir, that the court know
no scoundrels-knows no justloe-know