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Show Scene in Court. Yesterday ia the 3rd District Court, application was made to the Court, by Mr. Miner, one of the counsel for the defendants in the ! case of Englebrecht et ah, v. Clinton j tt ah. known as the city liquor case, to I settle the statement of the case, that ! the motion for a new trial might be ! argued, when his Honor inquired of I Mr. Miner if he believed that motion j would prevail. Mr. Miner emphatically declared he did so believe, or it would Dot have been filed. Tke ire of the Chief Justice was aroused at this, and : he promptly asseverated to the con i trary, our reporter says, with the t declaration "No uch thing, sir," or words to that effect. Whereupon the counsel, becoming wroth like unto the Court, intimated that the supposition then was that he (. counsel ) lied ! The Court waxed wrother, hugely, and if Courts ever did say "dry up" that Court would surely have said it ; but the Court didn't use that expressive phrase; it only intimated it didn't want any more of that in its share, and glanced down angry daggers at the counsel. The Court went further, it wouldn't settle the statement, it overruled .the motion for a new trial without argument ; it peremptorily ordered judgment to be entered for plaintiff; and it heaped its judicial inflictions upon counsel by granting time, in a Bimilar suit, next called, to settle the statement, the thing it had refused to do in the preceding case. All of which only excites admiration at the coolness of counsel and the infallibility infalli-bility and impartiality of courts ! |