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Show REFLECTION ON THE JUDGE. Ultra Pious Lawyer Drew Upon Himself Him-self Wrath of Justice Gray. Justice Gray of the United States supreme court, who has just retired,, had a long experience on the bench before going to Washington. Many years ago, when he was a member of the supreme court of Massachusetts, he had an amusing experience with, a certain Boston lawyer, an exceedingly pious man with a taste for evangelization, evangeliza-tion, who had his letterheads printed with a verse from scripture in large type following the name and address. On one occasion, having to make am ex-parte preliminary argument before be-fore Justice Gray in chambers, in which it would be necessary to disclose dis-close certain parts of his client's case which he desired not to make generally gener-ally known until the trial, he wrote the judge a note asking that he be allowed an opportunity to speak to him in private. He was somewhat chagrined when his note came back to him with a scrawl across the bottom: bot-tom: "Request denied, with a suggestion sug-gestion from the court that counsel base future petitions on a more appropriate ap-propriate citation." For a moment he could not make out the meaning of this, as he was not aware that he had quoted any law, but glancing up the page he discovered discover-ed that he had written his page on a letterhead bearing this text: "Ye are bought with a price." |