Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — LEGAL ANECDOTES. [ARTICLE]

LEGAL ANECDOTES.

WU®, Witty, and Pungent Sayings of Bench and Bar. The writer remembers hearing of a Sntleman who, not wishing to pay the jal and recognized fee for a consultation with his lawyer, devised an expedient whereby he expected to gain the information he required without the usual cost. He accordingly invited the man “learned in the law' to (line at his house on a particular evening, as a friend and old acquaintance. The lawyer gladly accepted the invitation, and attended "at the house of his friend and client prompt to the minute. The conversation for some time was very general and agreeable, and by and bv the shrewd client, bv hinting and suggesting, at last drew the lawyer out into a learned and explicit dissertation upon ;. ic subject the host wished to be informed „,,on. The client pleased, satisfied, and .filing, chuckled in his sleeve, thinking now nicely he had wormed out the ad- . ice desired and pumped his lawyer free e. cost. The feast over, the lawyer departed, equally pleased, and, both being satisfied, all went as merry as a marriage bell. But a few days afterward the client recieved a letter from his lawyer informing him that the charge for professional consultation and advice was IS shillings and i ponoc, auil would he “kindly attend to the payment of same at his earliest convenience, and oblige.” The client was wild—caught in his own trap; but, being determined to outwit the lawyer and gain his own ends, he forwarded to the latter a bill for “dinner, wines, and accessories supplied” on the 16th inst., amounting to 13 shillings and 4 pence, saying that if he would settle inclosed bill lie should only be too {(leased and happy to settle the lawyer’s ittle bill. The lawyer retorted by threatening to commence an action against mine host for selling wines without a license unless his, the lawyer’s, bill was immediately paid. Do I need to say that the lawyer was victorious? When I was a boy, I heard of .a lawyer who was called up in the middle of a cold winter’s night to draw out the will of an old farmer who lived some three miles away, and who was dying. The messenger had brought a cart to convey the lawyer to the farm, and the latter in due time arrived at his destination. When he entered the house he was immediately ushered into the sick-

It was once reported to the notorious Judge Jeffries that the Prince of Orange was on the pointy of entering into the country, and that he was already preparing a manifesto as to his inducements and objects in so doing. “Pray, my lord chief justice,” said a gentleman E resent, “what do you think will be the eads of this manifestoP” “Mine will be one,” he grimly replied. An undoubted alibi was some time ago successfully proved in an American court as follows: