Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — A File Wanted. [ARTICLE]

A File Wanted.

He had a wizz-wazzy, go-as-you-please gait, as he approached a citizen standing in the door of a drug store, and he took off his hat and made an old-lashioned “kerchy,” before asking: “Say, be you a lawyer ?" “Well, I know something of law!” “Say, then you can help me opt. I was out last night, Indeed, I’m out yet.” “Been on a spree?” “K’rect. Just sobering off to go home. When I git there, she’ll say I’ve bin off’n a tare, and she'll jaw, and file a dozen affidavits.” “Who? Your wife?” “Of course. Say, I want to silo something. I don’t know what you call it, but a lawyer ought to know. Suppose I said you was a thief? What would you do?" “fundi your “No! no! What would you do in law?” “File a general denial.” “K’rect, again! That’s exactly what I want. She’ll roar and take on, and I’ll file a general denial and plead privilege on facts. That’s what 1 was after —that’s what’ll humble her in no time. Say—have sunthin’?” “No.” “All right—just the same. Let’s see. General denial, and the’ burden of proof is on her. Jury trial—verdict of not guilty, and I cojne out whiter’n a spring lamb. Awl right—much obleeged, hie—a—long.”— Detroit Free Press.