Arizona republican., 1903-04-05
LAWYERS AND DIVORCE SUITS
More Money in a Trial Than in a
 Reconciliation.

Your honor, we are making a her culean effort to effect a reconciliation between that pair. and ask that the court postpone hearing until we get the result
 The speaker was q lawyer who had answered the call of a case on the In- dianapolis circuit court docket. He wa. the attorney in a divorce case, and, ir- stead of carrying the case to Judge Allen he had tried to effect reconcii- iation.
 There are not many lawyers of this stripe. There is better fee in carry ing the divorce cases to court than In effecting reconciliations. However, the Indianapolis bar has several lawyers who are filled with the milk of human kindness to the degree that they would sacrifice a fee in order to see peace re- stored between a married couple. Do the courts have opportunity to | effect many reconciliations? was the question put to Judge Leathers, Of room of the superior court, the other | day.
 NO, not many" replied the judge. w hen divorce case reaches the courts 1t is generally too desperate . | case for reconciliation If there fs any settlement of the tribulations of a warning pair it must be done before they get to a court. The lawyers can do great deal along that line There are some lawyers who enjoy trying their hand al being peacemaR- CTS. A man or woman will go to them with their troubles, and the good heart, ed lawyer, who is not a fee grabber, will talk over the trouble with them, and it frequently occurs that some lit- tie indiscretion on the part of husband or wife can be patched up and family kept together. But if the lawyer is :. fee grabber he can wreck home for few paltry dollars. A lawyer with T. good heart is a blessing in many in- stances. He is sort of legal good Samaritan
 The judges of the Marion county courts are very careful in handling d. vorce cases. The lawyer a complainant employs to handle divorce case is half the battle. If lawyer of the shyster type appears for plaintiff the
 
 many questions in order to avoid leav- ing any evidence that may have 6i- rect bearing on the case. Quack law yers frequently take cases to court on fiimsy evidence and have their wit nesses coached so that no evidence of any indiscretions on the part of the plaintiff will come out. But when the court begins tc ask questions the wit nesses are stampeded and the real facts are divulged, thus disclosing that the plaintiff is as bad as the defendant. In q ease in which the pot can't call the kettle black" the courts always refuse a divorce.
 There are lawyers al the Indianapolis bal w,'o take divorce cases op the basis that if TO divorce is granted they are not to receive a fee. The courts know these lawyers, and very carefully guard against the elimination of any evidence that will throw any light on the case. The courts frequently cor tinue the hearing of such cases for many days in order to call more wit nesses.
 The courts have also been known to send out of the state for the absent de- fendants in order to get the story from both sides. It frequently occurs when the defendant appears that he or she had the best evidence for the issuing of decree. Each of the judges in the Marion courts has laid down stringent rules governing the trial or divorce causes, a. l the shyster prac- as they used to be.-Indianapolis News.