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Show .1 udge Field's Innovation. Chi auo Times. A Kansas City judge has set. a precedent! which will be hailed with glee by litigants and particularly by witnesses. When one of the lawyers in a divorce case began to brow-bcat brow-bcat and bully a witness the judge interposed with this quiet remark: Gentlemen, if anyone i unjustly insulted in this courtroom I will not line him for resenting it. This court vill not. further protect a man m ho give an insult." A very Daniel come to judgment is that judge. In his court the favorite, practice of bolstering up a bad ca.-e by bullying the witnesses wit-nesses for the other side is likely to become unpopular. |