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called where the lawyer, after exercising all his tangling tactics without effect, looked quizzically at the doctor who was testifying and said:— "You will admit that doctors sometimes make mistakes, won't you?" "Oh, yes; the same as lawyers," was the cool reply. "The doctors' mistakes are buried six feet under ground," was the lawyer's triumphant reply. "Yes," he replied, "and lawyers' mistakes often swing in the air."— New York Times. "The recent press reports touching the use of whisky by juries in Tennessee, says a New York lawyer, "remind me of an amusing incident in connection with a trial I once witnessed in Arkansas. "The defendant had been accused of selling adulterated liquor, and some whisky was offered in evidence. This was given the jury as evidence to assist in its deliberations. "When they finally filed into court, his Honor asked :— "'Has the jury agreed on a verdict?' "'No, your Honor,' responded the fore man, 'and before we do we should like to have more evidence.'" —Lippincott's. "Gentlemen of the jury," said the prose cuting barrister, "this prisoner is an unmiti gated scoundrel; he acknowledges it. And yet, thanks to the wisdom of the common law, he has been given a fair trial by a jury of his peers." —Law Student's Helper.

Lawyer (to deaf witness)—Do you know the plaintiff's pigs? Witness—Eh? Lawyer (raisinghis voice,—Do—you—know plaintiff's pigs? Witness—.Yes. Lawyer—How long have you known them? Witness—Eh? Lawyer (louder still)—How long have you known them? Witness—Fed 'em all last spring. Lawyer—Were they all about a size? Witness—Eh? Lawyer (rises on his feet petulantly and shakes his forefinger at the conclusion of each word at the witness) —Were—they— all—of—a—size? Witness—Some ov 'em wor, and some ov 'em worn't. — Exchange. It was seriously (but unsuccessfully) urged in a Nebraska case that an applicant for a liquor license was not entitled to it because he did not have a respectable character, and that he did not have a respectable character because he applied for a license to sell liquors. —Case and Comment. A corporation composed of negroes is held, in a recent Virginia case, not to be a "colored person." This corporation bought the land for an amusement park for the use of colored people, and the land was subject to a covenant against the sale thereof to colored persons. But while it has been well established that a corporation is a person, it is not a colored person because it is composed of persons of color. —Lancaster (Pa.) Law Review.

Correspondence THE ECONOMIC SITUATION AND THE CONSTITUTION in advance of the constitutional limitations To the Editor of the Green Bag:— FOLLOWING closely upon President of political government in the United States Taft's special message to Congress, the as to cause serious embarrassment to the address of Attorney-General Wickersham be conduct of legitimate business on the one fore the Kentucky Bar Association is of the hand, and, owing to lack of adequate greatest interest and significance to students machinery for guiding and restraining the of economic questions. As he undoubtedly new forces, to permit on the other an un speaks with authority, we may take it as the warranted exploitation of the people by trusts purpose and determination of the present and combinations. The invincible power of administration of our national government co-operative effort which the organization and to face the economic problems which now success of these trusts and combinations wit present themselves as the outcropping of ness has come to stay. It is the working out forces long at work beneath the surface of of economic progress, and may be regarded not things. The evolution of industry is so far only as inevitable but as eminently desirable.