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"We are ready on the part of the plaintiff," replied Sharpman.

"We do not wish to offer any further contradictory evidence than that already elicited from the plaintiff's witnesses.

" "In that case," said the judge, "I presume you will have nothing further to offer on the part of the plaintiff, Mr. Sharpman?" "Nothing," replied that gentleman, with an involuntary, smile of satisfaction on his lips.

Let us at least know whether the responsible plaintiff in this case was present or was a party to this alleged conversation.

"We contend," said Goodlaw, in support of his offer, "that neither the trustee-plaintiff nor his attorney are persons whom the law recognizes as having any vital interest in this suit.

The witness on the stand is the real plaintiff here, his are the interests that are at stake, and if he chooses to give evidence adverse to those interests, evidence relevant to the matter at issue, although it may be hearsay evidence, he has a perfect right to do so.

His privilege as a witness is as high as that of any other plaintiff.

"You may cross-examine the witness," said Goodlaw to the plaintiff's attorney.

The court ruled that the reasons presented were not sufficient to warrant the holding of a jury at this stage of the case for so long a time, but intimated that in the event of a verdict for the plaintiff a motion for a new trial might be favorably considered by the court.

Fortified by the knowledge of the story that Rhyming Joe had told, as Ralph had just whispered it to him, Goodlaw was able to dissipate, greatly, the force of the plaintiff's evidence, and to show how Craft's whole story might easily be a cleverly concocted falsehood built upon a foundation of truth.

This person knew the history of Ralph's parentage and saw through Craft's duplicity; and, in an unguarded moment, the attorney for the plaintiff closed this man's mouth by means which we can only guess at, and sent him forth to hide among the moral and the social wrecks that constitute the flotsam and the jetsam of society.

The counsel for the plaintiff tries to throw upon him the mantle of the eavesdropper, but the breath of this boy's lightest word lifts such a covering from him, and reveals his purity of purpose and his agony of mind in listening to the revelation that was made.

The boy's mother believed it, the counsel for the defence believed it, the lad himself believed it, his Honor on the bench, and you, gentlemen in the jury-box, I doubt not, all believed it; indeed it was agreed by all parties that nothing remained to be done but to take your verdict for the plaintiff.

It looks as though hatred and jealousy were combined in a desperate effort to crush the counsel for the plaintiff.

The counsel for the plaintiff can afford to laugh at their animosity toward himself, but he cannot help his indignation at their plot.

That question was not whether Ralph was the son of Robert Burnham; but it was: which would be better for the boy, to decide in favor of the plaintiff or of the defendant.

If they found for the plaintiff, they would throw the boy's fortune into the hands of Craft and Sharpman, where they feared the greater part of it would finally remain.

In the case wherein Simon Craft, guardian of the estate of Ralph Burnham, a minor, is plaintiff, and Margaret Burnham, administrator of the estate of Robert Burnham, deceased, is defendant, you say you find for the defendant, and that the boy Ralph is not the son of Robert Burnham.

When he is defendant and like to be worsted in a suit, he puts in a cross bill and becomes plaintiff; for the plainant is eldest hand, and has not only that advantage, but is understood to be the better friend to the Court, and is considered for it accordingly.

It is a plea available only to the defendant; no plaintiff can offer it as a supplementary ground of action.

The women, who would rather wrest the laws, Than let a sister-plaintiff lose the cause, (As judges on the bench more gracious are, And more attent to brothers of the bar) 310 Cried one and all, the suppliant should have right, And to the grandame hag adjudged the knight.

The justices did not have very much work; in most of the cases that came before them the plaintiff and defendant were both of the same race.

The defendants admit the illegality of their conspiracy, because they deny it as a fact; and the bedell likewise denies that he ever made such proclamation or threat, whereupon (the plaintiff being a man of the church) they are set to trial by wager of law instead of by actual battle, neither party nor the court making any question of the illegality both of the conspiracy and of the act complained of.

" The plaintiff looked a little perplexed, as if she could not understand how it could be otherwise than wrong for a girl to usurp her seat.

The result of the trial was, that the jury pronounced the plaintiff not to have been the property of the defendant, several of them crying out "No property, no property.

defendant 597 occurrences

DEAR MADAM,Having had a visit from the defendant in above, we should be pleased to have an interview with you at 2 p.m. to-morrow.

The community were left to the more ostentatious information of the defendant's counsel, Messrs. Kitcham and Bilser, that the case was "ridiculous" and "rotten," that the plaintiff would be nonsuited, and the fire-eating Starbottle would be taught a lesson that he could not "bully" the lawand there were some dark hints of a conspiracy.

This and her downcast modest demeanor were perhaps at first disappointing to the crowd, who had evidently expected a paragon of lovelinessas the Circe of the grim ascetic defendant, who sat beside his counsel.

"May it please the Court," returned Colonel Starbottle with dignity, ignoring the counsel, "the defendant's counsel will observe that he is already furnished with the matterwhich I regret to say he has treatedin the presence of the Courtand of his client, a deacon of the churchwither-great superciliousness.

" "I am waiting, your Honor, for theerwithdrawal by the defendant's counsel of the word 'tampering,' as refers to myself, and of 'impertinent,' as refers to the sacred volumes.

The defendant's counsel rose and mumbled a few words of apology, and the incident closed.

He spoke then as the champion of strict justice against legal oppression; no less should he to-day champion the cause of the unprotected and the comparatively defenselesssave for that paramount power which surrounds beauty and innocenceeven though the plaintiff of yesterday was the defendant of to-day.

They were the damning, incontrovertible proofs of the perfidy of the defendant.

The weak pipings of Cupid were mingled with the chorus of the saintsthe sanctity of the temple known as the "meeting-house" was desecrated by proceedings more in keeping with the shrine of Venusand the inspired writings themselves were used as the medium of amatory and wanton flirtation by the defendant in his sacred capacity as Deacon.

How would they feel to know that these sacred recollections were now forever profaned in their memory by the knowledge that the defendant was capable of using such occasions to make love to the larger girls and teachers, whilst his artless companions were innocentlythe Court will pardon me for introducing what I am credibly informed is the local expression 'doing gooseberry'?"

The defendant exhibited in this affair a certain frugality oferpecuniary investment, which I am willing to admit may be commendable in his class.

The defendant, on this occasion, by the mute presentation of a tip plate covered with baize, solicited the pecuniary contributions of the faithful.

"I shall prove to you, gentlemen of the jury," said the Colonel, solemnly, drawing a Bible from his coat-tail pocket, "that the defendant, for the last twelve months, conducted an amatory correspondence with the plaintiff by means of underlined words of sacred writ and church psalmody, such as 'beloved,' 'precious,' and 'dearest,' occasionally appropriating whole passages which seemed apposite to his tender passion.

Yes, gentlemen!yes, you may well turn from those accusing pages and look at the double-faced defendant.

It is not a single drink that the defendant asks for not a glass of light and generous wine, to be shared with his inamoratabut a number of flagons or vessels, each possibly holding a pint measurefor himself!" The smile of the audience had become a laugh.

" "The jury will please follow the counsel's speech, without comment," said the Judge, briefly, fully aware that the defendant's counsel would spring to his feet, as he did promptly.

You" (to defendant's counsel) "will have your opportunity to reply later.

We all know that among the lower animals, with whom you may possibly be called upon to classify the defendant, there are certain signals more or less harmonious, as the case may be.

With the greatest reluctance, and theergreatest pain, I succeeded in wresting from the maidenly modesty of my fair client the innocent confession that the defendant had induced her to correspond with him in these methods.

Presently there appears upon the road a slinking, stealthy figurethe defendant, on his way to church.

It is possibly my fault that I have failed, oratorically, to convey to the gentlemen of the jury the full force and significance of the defendant's signals.

I am aware that my voice is singularly deficient in producing either the dulcet tones of my fair client or the impassioned vehemence of the defendant's repose.

No less white, but more agitated, was the face of the defendant's counsel, who instantly rose.

" "As far as I can follow the pleadings," said the Judge, gravely, "the case seems to be hardly one for litigation, and I approve of the defendant's course, while I strongly urge the plaintiff to accept it.

Even supposing a Court to hold that the fact of a dog being loose in this way or unaccompanied was evidence of negligence against his owner this would by no means defeat his owner's claim, for the law is, that though a plaintiff may have been negligent in some such way as this, yet if the defendant could, by the exercise of reasonable care, have avoided the accident, the plaintiff can still recover.

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