Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-17
LAWYER GIVEN
A REPRIMAND
In Trial Over Horse Bought
at Cranhury.

New Brunswick, Oct 17.+Charles
e. Cook, a lawyer. of Asbury Park,
was reprimanded by Judge Lloyd in
the circuit court yesterday afternoon
for having failed. as the court said,
in connecting up a line of c~ross-ex-
animation which he said that he
meant to connect. The scene came
Just before adjournment.
The case raj that of Isaac s.
Everitt, OF Cranbury, against Peter
and Catherine 0'Neill, of Asbury
Park, and was the recovery Of $3.50
alleged due for payment of a horse
bought by the defendan from Mr..
Everitt.
Mr.. Everitt, the plaintiff. went
upon the witness stand and swore
that he had sold the horse to Peter
O'Neill, that the horse had been de-
livered to Mr.. 0'Neill and that he
had never been paid for. The sale
was on March 80 last. After O'Neill
had tried two horses he had offered
$3.50 for one Of them and the bar
gain had been closed.
On cross-examination Lawyer
Cook asked the witness ii he hadn't
previously sold a team OF horses to
Mr.. O'Neill.
The question was objected to by
Senator Silzer, counsel for the plain
tiff. he holding that a previous
transaction had nothing to do with
this case. The two lawyers Went to
the bench and held q secret confer
ence with the court as to the pur-
pose Of the erosszexamination, Then
the court admitted this line of cross
$40 -, fo- A.. E ~~ &L4 8N x1nnvs{aA th -
Lawyer Cook would connect b pre-
vious transaction with the sale Of
the horse involved in this suit
The lawyer tried to get admis-
sions from the Witness that he had
told O'Neill that he would give him
the best team OF the team-horses In
Monmouth county and that ii they
were not as represented he would
exchange the horses until he had a
satisfactory team. The witness de-
MED this. The lawyer followed up
this with many other questions
about the previous transactions
Judge Lloyd urged the trial on
and said that he did not intend to
devote q whole day to a horse ease
of this nature.
Finally, when Lawyer Cook fin
fshed with the witness, Judge Lloyd,
turning to the stenegrapher, ordered
him to strike out all of the cross
examination. The court said that
Lawyer Cook had promised the
court that he would connect the old
transaction with the present. one
and on that understanding the court
had admitted the testimony. The
testimony had not been connected
and he ordered 1t stricken out for
that reason and told the jury to ig-
more the whole cross-examinaticn.
May | have an exception2D ask
cd Lawyer Cook.
NO" replied the court. "You
made a promise to the court which
you have not fulfilled.
Mr.. Cook said that he wanted to
FHe sald e fhasaebfRh ne hsd ssfsd j
question, connecting the two trans
actions and II he had not, he wanted
Ia daAsasHs than asked the witness
III no hadn't sent the horse, on whfth
EO'NefH to replace two horses preVi
ously sold to the defendant n OF
which had become sick and M of
which had died.
The witness said that he had not.
This ended the cros6-examination,
the plaintiff rested and adjourn
! ment was, taken until this morning.
After adjournment Judge Lloyd
called Lawyer Cook to the bench
and spokaspriyatslv to hsn
xanw.xx. $1,000