Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — Two Lawyers’ Stories. [ARTICLE]

Two Lawyers’ Stories.

Occasionally lawyers get together and swap stories about the funny thing* they have heard in and around tbs court-house. A Republic reporter was in earshot of several eminent barrister* and heard two anecdotes related that are worth repeating: When Judge Rombauer was on the bench he one day inade a ruling against a young attorney whose superfluity ol diplomas was only equaled by his scant knowledge of the law. Much disgusted the lawyer said: “I don’t know where your honor goe* to find such law as that.” When ruffled Judge Rombauer speaks with a strong Bohemian accent, and he replied in emphatic language: “I am not surprised, Mr. , rat you know not where I go to find ze law, for I find it in ze books.” The second incident was that where, in a Judge had overruled a motion ol Counselor Garvey, one of the best known lawyers at the St. Louis bar. The counselor is usually most respect ful to the court, but he lost his tempei this time and declared in his broad, though rich and cultured. Irish brogue: “Your Honor,l hope for your honor’s honor that it trill*never be noised abroad to your honor’s hurt that this honorable court ever made a ruling so dishonorable to its own honor.” —SL Louis Republic.