Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — Ingenious Defense. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious Defense.

At the Investors’ league dinner in New York the speeches were made* between the courses—a new invention, as President George Whigelt pointed out, for saving the time of banqueters. -* “Their defense," President Whigelt later, apropos of a notorious firm ot patent infringers, “their defense reminds me in its absurdity of Jackson’s "Jackson, a rough, sued a man for* assault, and yet, when the man appeared in court, he was bitten all over the face and ears horribly. "'How about this?’ the judge said to Jackson sternly. ‘Here you sue a man for assault, and he comes into court marked all over with your teeth!’ j “ 'Well, judge, your honor,’ said. Jackson, Tie pounded me so hard wbile he was assaultin’ me that I had to have something to bite on, or else I couldn’t have stood it’ **