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Justice James, “that John Sinister has

English bench of today who could

found the conclusion to the long dilemma

deliver a judgment

of his life, and that now after the close of his isolated existence he at last reposes in the arms of his only legitimate

ties of Lord Justice James’s judg ments, and that is Mr. Justice Darling. Long may he sit on the bench, and wage war against perjury and false

parent—his mother Earth.”

There is only one occupant of the

with the quali

sentiment.

The Disagreeing Jury Failed to Disagree By JUDGE A. G. ZIMMERMAN.l

T was a score of years ago, more or

cially rushed, and am simply ‘copying

less, when United States District

pleadings.’" This was a standing joke between

Attorney Harold Brown leisurely sauntered into the law oﬂices of his friend Jim Johnson. The two had been associate law clerks of a distinguished Senator in those same oﬁices some seven or eight years before. Brown, however, then had about com

pleted his legal novitiate, and since had been quite successful at the bar and in politics, as his honorable official position so early in his career indicated. Johnson,

on the contrary, found himself obliged to rehabilitate his ﬁnances by going back to teaching for a time, before completing his course and engaging in

the practice of law.

His legal career

was therefore mostly before him as yet, and his time not especially valuable.

"How are you, Jim?

them since student days.

It seems that when Johnson ﬁrst became junior law clerk as a sort of

fag to the senior, Brown one day gave the newcomer a complaint to copy. Johnson went faithfully to work, and being an ex-school teacher thought he

could improve on the phraseology and thus make the “copy” read more smoothly than the original. He accord ingly made his “improvements" and

proudly exhibited his work when com pleted to his immediate superior. Brown looked at the new clerk dis gustedly, and impressed upon him his ﬁrst legal lesson by saying :— “You darn fool, don't you know

Pretty busy

enough to know that a copy means a

this morning?" said the District At torney, as he glanced into the private office.

copy, even to the crossing of the t’s and dotting of the 'i’s? “Besides," he added, “you're not supposed to know about pleadings,

"Oh hello, Harold! Come in. Never too busy to talk to you. Pull up that swivel chair there.

but you are presumed to have common sense. As old Dean Sloan would say,

"Fact of the matter is,” continued

I guess that is ‘a violent presumption’

Johnson, smilingly, after the two lawyers

in your case.” After some reminiscent conversation

were familiarly settled, "I'm not espe 1 Of the Dane County Court, Madison. Wis.

concerning student days, the government