Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-14
BILL IN EQUITY
Served By Sheriff on The
County Commissioners,
At Instance Of Members Of
Kennebec Bar Association.
Better Table Wanted In Law Library
At The Court House.

The cloth-covered table in the law
library at the court house is relic of
past ages. Antiquarians who have
delved through the various layers of
dirt and tobacco smoke, assert that
under more modern covers are evidence
Of what appear to have been covers
back in the time of the mound build
ers ut least, if not in the pliocene pc
riod.
The secretary OF the Bar Association,
who has been conducting observations
IN the more recent glacial drift, is de-
terInined to have a table in the library
which shall be more in accord with
It's surroundings, and accordingly pre-
pared bill in equity to compel the
county commissioners TO repair or re-
place the table.
Sheriff Plaisted was called upon 10
serve this bill, which he did recently
in his most impressive manner. in the
presence Oi an interested crowd OF at
torneys and county officers. 1t was his
first official act in serving q precept of
the court and he read the document to-
the county officers i'll sOnOrouS tones
which evidently struck terror to the
hearts Of the commissioners. for it is
understood that they determined at
once to comply with the order of the
court. The bill was as follows:
STATE OF MAJNF.-Kennebec IS. ST.
prone Judicial Court. kennebec Bar
Association vs.. County Commissioners
krnncbcc County.
To The honorable Justice of the Supreme
Judicial Count.
The kennebec Bar Association com
plains against tn. county commissioners
of i>cnnt bee county ard says:
l. That the table in the Law library ol
Tie Ncnn"beC comfy court house Is un-
slightly. unSanitary and unsatisfactory,
that il is scratched, scared. SmudgeG,
specified and spotted. That i is dlngy.
dcfaced, discolOred and distisured It's
cover is frousy. musty, ragged, dcnudcd,
threadnarc and moth beaten. and III It's
general appearance 1t is thoroughly ugly.
mComcly and an eye-sCre.
= AS a receptacle for boot-h"eiS. cigar
stubs and burnt matches during III" brief
respite OF the attorneys from their ardi,-
Gus duties in the court room, no respect.
abb" lawyer has 50 dilapidated Il piec, eff
furniture in his office. And, therefore,
whc,! he lights his pipe leans back in his
chair and places his feet on such a hid
enlIS corruption, he cannot feel at home
or among congenial surroundings.
,: The Honorable County Commission
crs sit IN dignity behind an oak bench in
TIL. ir court roam, which in beauty OF APP
lr.ar;tnC", polished front and dignity anu
severity of outline is cuualed only by TN.
similar qualities of the gentle men VINO
grace it
1. When the polished and flignltied jus
tees Of the supreme judicial and sup"-
rinr cp;!-ts hold hearings III Chambers
behind such bench i'll the county library
the contrast is too apparent Tor uttef-
ancr.
Whcrcfor, your complainant respectfully
praYS -.
l. That the new Democratic sheriff ana
county attorney he ordered ana directed
NV said defendants to prosecute at least
one legal indictmt mt Il. the coming Jan
,lary term of court in orGcr to provide a
fund for repairs.
:. That the said defendants be ordered
and onuctcd from said fund to cause u he
Ira,i,. such necessary rtpairS to SAID taDl,
as will Cause il - approach IN some dr-
prcr II least to the comclinesS. shapeli
ness. refinement and elegance of our new
sheriff whom it will be the plcaSur" 81
the BAR to see adCrl, the library with
his presence during his leisure moments.
EENNEBEC BAR ASSN,
by G. l.. ANDREWS.
It's Secretary.
on the foregoing bill 1t is ordered that
service he made on the said defendants
hy leaving with them Il true ana correct
tnuy thereof and that they appear b'iof'
I'M. bar of their consciences as soon ~
,,nseihle To answer why prayer of SAID
PETITIONERS should not be granted
A. NJ SPEAR.
Justice $ j. ,'ourt.