Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — The Judge's Reproof. [ARTICLE]

The Judge's Reproof.

The venerable Judge Allen, of the United States Circuit Court, at Springfield, 111., was hearing a ease a few years ago, in which Janies C. Courtney was one of the attorneys. The counsel on the opposite side had asked a question of a witness, and Courtney had objected. The point was argued by both sides, and the objection was overruled. The opposite lawyer asked the same question of the next witness, and Courtney again objected and began to argue it over again. Judge Allen interrupted him with this observation: “.Mr. Courtney, you remind me of a dog that keeps barking up the tree after the coon Is gone.” Mr. Courtney thereupon subsided.