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The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosi ties, facetiœ, anecdotes, etc. NOTES.

JIM JACKSON was brought before a Wes tern Judge charged with chicken stealing. After the evidence was all in the justice, with a perplexed look, said, "But I do not understand, Jackson, how it was possible for you to steal those chickens, when they were roosting right under the owner's win dow and there were two vicious dogs in the yard." ."Hit wouldn't do yer a bit o' good, Jedge, for me to 'splain how I kotched dem chick ens, fer you couldn't do hit yerself ef yer tried it fohtv times, and yer might get yer hide full er lead. De bes way fer you ter do, Jedge, is jes ter buy yo' chickens in de mar ket, same ez odder folks do, and when yer wants ter commit any rascality do hit on de bench whar vo' is at home." AT Woodlawn, Missouri, there lives an ec centric character by the name of A. C. Mailory, who combines in his person the seem ingly incompatible professions of the barber and the lawyer. Over the door of his com bination barber shop and law office there hangs a sign bearing the words: "Attorney at Law and Tonsorial Artist." Mallory does a good business at both professions, and it is no infrequent thing for him to leave a cus tomer, whose face is covered with lather or whose head is only partially shampooed while he draws up a deed or signs a legal paper. This story is told of him : "Mallory was practising law exclusively twenty years ago. He was well up in the statutes, but wasn't up on the decisions

much. Still, his good common sense helped him over the rough places, but once in a while he ran against the legal rocks. In his early days he defended against an attachment that had been sued out on a claim. The lawyer on the other side had a case directly in point. The old Squire asked Mallory if he had anything to say. "'It looks like it's against me,' said Mal lory, 'but I'd like for the gentleman to read that last line again.' "'Opinion by Judge Sherwood; other judges concur,' the plaintiff's lawyer re peated. "'Ah, I thought so/ exclaimed Mallory with much relief. ' That is Judge Sher wood's opinion, but it says the other judges conquered. There are six other judges, your honor.' "'The way I look at it,' announced the Squire, deciding the case, ' Judge Sherwood conquered the other judges. The finding will be for the plaintiff, Mr. Mallory." IN the district court of Des Moines, Iowa, recently, a negro preacher was indicted and placed on trial, charged with criminal libel. The prosecuting witness was a negro attor ney who alleged that the preacher had li belled him by printing and circulating gen erally a four-page pamphlet in which he ac cused the attorney of being a gambler and of having been the cause of more than one. happy home (among them the preacher's own) being disrupted. The trial of the case occupied ten days and more than a hundred witnesses, all ne groes, were called and testified. The de fense of the preacher was that the alleged libellous pamphlet was authorized by the church at a meeting of the church board, called to investigate the matter, and that it was therefore privileged. The defense sum