Show LAWYERS emergencies 7 i 1 s some instances have to be bulck witted Although the processes of law are slaw therea remany occasions when lawyers must act with where a lack or of the result us to the interests of clients this is notably the case in the drawing of wills it often happens that a lawyer is roused bediale bed lale at night to go to the bedside of a dying person and perfect a will disposing of large amounts of property to do this with expedition complying with all the requisite forms while death is literally waiting at the door is a re quires a man of cool head and self pos surrogates courts bear icay to the frequency with which the wishes of testators haat failed to be carried out because ottar ott hr failure to cox with some almost trifling in nicase the lawyer in maciag put the paper that the testator before tire were pom plied in another case a quick lawyer who saw that there was net time to complete will in SL case chero the property consisted of money in bank adopted the expedient of making out checks for the heirs were duly signed and d and the heirs gat their i money fl t tf the next is i day S without f being obliged to wait a year for executors in commercial crisce lawyers have to do a good deal of quick work in putting business affairs in shape to meet an the generally desires to save pares of the wreck for this cr that creditor or for relatives or for himself and the papers must be drawn in due form to elude the vigilance of the unfortunate creditors who get left bankruptcy has become special branch of law and there are some lawyers become very expert aut so that upon short notice and to work bank ti i 4 j bupt rupt firm so ato 1 l dispose ottha alt assets j according to the wishes i clients i i there is room and wit in the actual trial licourt hi court it 11 1 1 tf r y n is careful due application it is handle the spur of competition with sharp opposing counsel or a testy court in every largo law firm the work is divided like thai in a factory and to each is assigned a particular baart of the case the one who man of rapid judgment and resources he must be able to meet surprises to discern men to motives to snap at the prejudices of jurors or judges and to seize the advantages of the mo ment there is no end bof need jor quick wit in questions identity in an extradition case which depended entirely upon identity the defendant had been fully identified tha defendants counsel slyly got his client to change his coat in court anth another man 0 similar appearance and within afew minutes the was led easily to identity tha wr A quick witted and faring glawyer once saved a guilty cuen from on a charge of poisoning it was proved that the poisoning had been done by means of certain cakes a portion of which was produced in court when the counsel for the prisoner had speech he said and these gentlemen of the jury are some of the alleged poisoned caes ve declare toa you jury at these aro not poisoned cakes they are as made and in order the jury to chov you that these cakes are not poisoned I 1 will eat one of them right here presence and he did eat abne he toola good care however to leave the room at the earliest oppOrtunity and to make a bee line for an adjoining room where ha ha an and an anti dote buethe jury never hea rd about the emetic or the antidote until the law aul WW afa DT V vt t iti i beat certain had oci purred several aan and bagain ahe necessary for lus to him up this device lethe glibly rattling oa cross examiner banded lihn Jaw book and said read aloud a paragraph from that t inquired the atness rwei aft eryou harp read iisak cawyer Qa wyer 1 act asty rs ty aft y of most tm interesting matter about lands appurtenances went on and asked aha a few more questions about bis derao jy positive chaj Sud deal w i tx I 1 repeats ith bt paragraph yon lahd appurtenances and deredita scents a i r aw why of course I 1 do diat alfe fitness bmw replied j m yon must have a queer memory re ported lawyer re things i affo and what you ago ss ana the I 1 was obviously amused at his dis a fall ars have been ansis rho could keep tip sr acif never lose sight of the main point isalio i i i I 1 cavm ti witness along by suavity and r lyness and acquiescence andai ps cat ous deference into pit falluci 9 such iseri will iria inart witness talk ion until he brer ano unfortunate expression that luni to bein pounced upon and de bed at one fell swoop A leading counsel for the defendant in as accident damage case where the injury had been occasioned by a jet of steam scalding the complainants back and neck as was driving past the defendants place argued to the jury that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence and should have looked up to avoid the accident the quick witted counsel for the complainant nant retorted oh no if he had looked up instead of suing for damage to the back of our head we should have bad to charge you for the loss of both in a trial for murder where the killing was done by shooting the counsel for defendant raade algood deal of fuss and introduced a quantity of medical testimony to show that the wounded man had beear treated at anc dose of a cross examination by defendants counsel on the length 0 the probe used to find the ball the direction of the wound and bf question very by askings doctor was it ing or the shooting tha caused death in the trial for burglary the people witness showed that he was on watch in the hall when he heard somer one fumbling with the door aad that he then slyly turned the knob so the chiei could come in easily thoa glib tongued lawyer for tha prisoner at once said why conr honor hiis tiis witness was tho real burglar for it was he zay client that really opened the door bf tah timely rclark was that the prisoner ciff with alight an A goltl deal of re quirce of lawyers la inthe filial of liens on real estate dr other property in 1 cases where the are daany and thes sets few and tha first comer is the ano good dc alaf wit is often displayed in the method of malan levy benjamin F Butler when he was a young lawyer got g ot a wide reputation f or sagacity by attaching the water wheel of a mill in an action for debt to be a common ahn for lawyers obtaining judgments against the city tp attach the pictures in the governor room of the cy halli A aleal of quick wit was displayed by tha lata samael J tildan and his co laborers who traced the frauds of william M tweed and his follower so as to put the evidence in aldar shape before a jury such work could hardly be done by any but great corporation lawyers in tho habit of grasping subjects comprehensively and of handling great interests involving large amounts of money and intricate details oi business N Y sun |