The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-26
Legal Briefs.

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their devotions prior to the open
ing of the Law Courts, says the
St. James's Gazette. According
to one old story famous brit
tauy lawyer once appealed to
Rome for appointment of a saint.
The Pope proposed that he
should go round a certain church
blindfolded, and lay hold of the
saint nearest to hand. Following
this suggestion he stopped and
grasped a certain figure, crying,
''This be our patron saint
When the bandage was removed
from his eyes he found that,
though he had stopped before
thealtar of st. Michael, to his hor-
ror he had laid hold, not of st.
Michel, but of the figure under
st. Michel's feet, the devil!
Hence, of course. the nickname of
the Inns of Court Volunteers,
Devils Own"
AS a sort of companion piece
to the letter of an applicant for
admission to the bar, published
in an October law journal was
the following statement:
"This is to certify to the Honor
able Supreme Court of Missis.
sippi at Jackson, Miss, Greeting.
| pray said Honorable Court on
Examination of an application for
admission to the Bar at
Miss, on October %, 1901 to
please excuse my bad work for l
was sick all the time l wear thear
at work with a fever. l also faith
er pray sead Honorable Supreme
Court that they may recamend
that l be licened to practices Law
in the State of Mississippi as the
Law directs, thear wear one other
person examined at the same time
My work incorporated the ques-
tions in the examinations like
this XQ) What is Rale property.
Rale property is any property
that is permanent fixed and i'm
movable and cannot be carried
out of it's place. 1 father remain
yours truly frind,
"John Doe. "
The clerk of the court "re-
spectfully submitted" the appli-
cation to their Honors, with the
following effusion endorsed:
on examination day 'he lay sick of a fever"
And wear sick all the time he
wear thear;'
But one thing is certain, he's stanch
believer
In the fact that "rale" property don't
float in the air
The court had not passed upon
the merits Of the case at last re-
ports.
The Supreme Court of Appeals
in Austria has decided that if a
wife saves money from the
amount allowed her by her hus-
band for household expenses,
and appropriates the savings for
herself, this proceeding amounts
to theft. The London Mails
Vienna correspondent sends par
ticulars of the case. Mr.. and
Mrs Daun, after being married
for thirty years, were divorced,
and Mrs Daun took with her the
sum, amounting to about G125,
which she had saved from the
weekly allowances made to her
for household expenses. Mr..
Daun brought an action against
her to recover this amount, and
judgment was given in his favor.
Mrs Daun has to refund the
whole sum.
Ifclergymen wish to know their
rating in the ponderous sheep
skin tones, they can find it out
by beginning with the very earl
lest English law books in exist
ence, says an English contempo-
rary In one of the black letter
Year Books it appears that some
one had been so unkind as to
call a preacher a fool, with a good
theological prefix to the fool. The
preacher brougt suit for slander,
and the defendant justified, as
the lawyers say-that is, he claim
ed that what he said was not Sian.
der but gospel truth-and he