Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — A Lawyer’s Opinion. [ARTICLE]

A Lawyer’s Opinion.

One in the long roll of celebrities who have lived and died in the good old town of Winthrop was a country lawyer and a justice of the peace, known as ’Squire Howe, who flourished three-quarters of a century ago. Lawyers of his class in those days took their pay in work. So, when a man came to him one day and said, “’Squire, I want you to tell me how small an amount a man can sue for?” Howe told him to work half a day in his field and he would answer the question. The man performed a half-day’s work, and asked the lawyer for his answer. “You want to know how smalj an amount you can sue for, do you ?” repeated Howe. “Yes, sir.” “Well, sir, you can sue for nothing at all, and recover the same amount.— Lewiston (Me.) Journal.