Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — BROUGHT ACTION TO AN END [ARTICLE]

BROUGHT ACTION TO AN END

Appearance of the “Deceased" In Chancery Court a Blow to Army of Lawyers. It was a suit in chancery, and there was a great gathering of the deceased’s family, quarreling, as relatives will, over the division of the spoils. The lawyers engaged chuckled, for the suit seemed likely to be prolonged and complicated. There were many lawyers, too, and the judge marveled at the immensity of the deceased man’s family as silk and stuff rose in rapid succession, introducing themselves with the usual formula: "And I, my lord, am for the nephews, or nieces, or fifteenth cousins removed, as the case may be, of the deceased.” The procession seemed interminable, but at last it came to an end. Then a small voice was heard timidly saying from the back of the court, “May I be allowed to speak, my lord?” • There was dead silence as his lordship adjusted his spectacles and asked, rather dejectedly, “Who are you?” The answer was, to say the least, unexpected. "I am the deceased, my lord," Bald the modest voice from the back of the court. That ended the action. Quite unknown to his relatives, the “deceased” had turned up from the wilds of Rhodesia. Obviously a man of humor, he must have taken a delight in watching how..‘‘the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley.”