People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — The Judge Rebuked. [ARTICLE]

The Judge Rebuked.

Lord Esher, who, when president of the court of appeals, used to keep up a running fire of “chaff” on learned counsels, sometimes got a Roland for his Oliver—as when a young barrister, in the course of argument, stated that no reasonable person could doubt one particular proposition. “But I doubt it very much," said the judge. The youthful advocate, not one whit abashed, replied: “I said no reasonable person, my lord.” The master on the rolls could ODly gasp: “Proceed, sir, proceed.”