New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

talitV than pTaCtCablllty TO his invention,
a pin stuck in the end OF the wood would
serve Just as effectively as the invented
piece OF wire. the client threatened to bring
suit against him for violation OF conf
dence. y
A MOTHER patent lawyer said that the
oldest client who had ever come 70
him was young woman who wanted his
help in getting a patent, literally, on an
idea"
What is your idea?" asked the lawyer
curiously.
The Young woman refused TO tell him. say
ing that She hesitated 20 divulge the nature
of her idea until it had been secured by pat
ent. Il won't trust anybody with II, not
even YOU, she told the lawyer.
The Young woman is probably still trying
10 patent her idea. II IS 10 bc wondered
whether she hesitates to impart II to the
patent Office.
A CUSTOMS lawyer said that Of al pc
n culiar clients with whom he had ever
come into contact the oldest was a middle
aged woman who wanted to bring SUIT
against the customs house authorities Tor
having looked through her diary. II de-
vclopcd that the diary had been hidden IN
q box at the bottom Of her travelling bag,
and that the customs men had simply opened
the box TO see what it contained The wo-
man insisted. however, that their real purpose
had been to read her diary, and demanded
financial satisfaction for having suffered
Outraged feelings.
A SECOND customs lawyer cited as his
n oldest client a woman who sought to
enlist his legal services after she had been
held on a charge of smuggling. It develope
that she had tried TO smugglc in a dozen
Paris gowns. which she told the attorney she
did not care 70 deny
But argued the attorney, what can
do in such a case as this!
"What can YOU do?" echoed the woman.
"Whv. YOU can make the Judge let me Try
them on in court, and they'll look so well
ON me that he'll be sure to let me of!
A WELL known metropolitan divorce law
n yer said that the strangcst client WITHIN
his memory had been poor Italian iaDorer'
who asked him 10 get him divorce because
his wife had just had twins:
As a second illustration, he cited the case
Of q man who had sought divorce from
his wife because the latter was losing her
looks.
Another divorce lawyer said that I'M
doubtedly the qucerest client who had en-
tered his office was a German OF middle age,
who asked advice on the best way to secure
snccdv separation from his wife. why DO
YOU want to get a divorce?' the lawyer
asked. Because" answered the Ieuton'
INV frau can't cook good no more.
IKE the famous Anneke Jams heirs, there
II are numerous strange cases OF so called
"ancestor clients" to be had from the law
yers. ,:.od H., .
New York lawyer of wide practice. Not
long ago" he says, there came to my Once
a Woman who insisted that she owned the
lover part of the Hudson River, having IN
heritcd it from Henry Hudson, her ancestor
'bv right Of discovery. -
fIf this seems an exaggerated case Shail
cite a second one that is stranger still. Last
y;n,er a man. who said he had been recon-
rr,cnded to me by spirit at a seance nc
had attended several nights previous, want
cd me TO prove his title TO the land upon
which the Subtreasury building stands. he
told me that it had been given to an ancestor
Of his bv George Washington, out OF grau-
tude for the formers loan OF coat during