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Show I :ALESS0N TO DILATORY AT-! AT-! T0RNEYS. Judge McKean Means Business. The members of the bar of the Third District have, for the past year or two, done about all the grumbling intelligent and enlightened attorneys know how to do, the subject of their complaints being that they couldn't get their suits tried. The Judge of the district has received no stnail amount of censure quietly, of conn e at the hands of these tame leg 1 gentlemen, who all the time cl'in.-ed cl'in.-ed that they were ready and anxious that the suits in which they were is-terested is-terested should be adjudicated, that their clienU might know what and who they were, and how they stood. It's so easy, you know, for men to talk. ... A change has come over Chief Justice Jus-tice McKean, and now His Honor has the laugh on the attorneys. When the jury was discharged last September Septem-ber to return on the iMth of October, (yesterday), the Judge gave notice that on "the return of the jury he would call the first five cases on the calendar for trial the first day, and that on each succeeding day five cases j in their order Bhould be called, pro- I viding the jury would dispose of that number. Upon return of tho trial jury, yesterday, the first five cases were called, and were quickly dispos- ed of, some of them being dismissal . and others passed over the term, as ; will be seen by a reference to our j court proceedings this morning, none of the attorneys being ready to proceed pro-ceed to trial. It was amusing, to a disinterested party, to hear the at 1 tempts at excuses the legal gentlemen would make as the cases were called, but excuses were at a discount with the court. It plainly appeared that the Judge was not the only one to be blamed for causes not being tried, but that the attorneys had themselves to The action of Judge McKean in establishing the rule is commendable, and will meet the approbation of all . industrious attorneys; and a strict adherence ad-herence to the rule on the part of the court will be the means of disposing of double the amount of suits in a given time. When due notice and ample time for preparation has "been given to an attorney that a particular cause will be called for trial on a certain cer-tain day.ifthe counsel is not prepared the cause should be dismissed or sent over the term, and not be set down for trial from day to day, taking up the time of the court, and probably keeping a jury waiting on the convenience conven-ience of the lawyer. A few lessons like that of yesteniay will have a salutary effect on the gentlemen of the bar, and if an attorney desires that a suit in which he is interested be tried, he will be ready when the suit is called. The suits subject to be called to-day will be found in our court proceedings. |