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Show NO DAMAGES AWARDED. Senator Depew believe in "putting ' yourself in the other man's shoes." He tell sn Interesting story about a Judge in New York who was a stickler for what was right, regardleas of law. . An action was brought ln the court for damages for assault and battery, and the evidence showed that the defendant, while walking ln the street with his wife, waa rudely accosted by the plaintiff, who used Intuiting terms. The defendant left his wife and gave the plaintiff a sound mopping, mop-ping, making his face and bead look Ilk a porterhouse steak.' "It wa evident." savs the Senator, "that the Judge sympathised with the defendant; de-fendant; but, as th cas was closely tried by the plaintiff's attorney, he knew that an effort to get a new trial would be made on the slightest ground. Bo. when the violence to the law had been duly expatiated upon, ln th summing up, the Judge charged the Jury, saying: " 'Gentlemen of the Jury, if the plaintiff plain-tiff had met me walking along the atreet with my wife, and he call?d me what it la not denied he called the defendant, I should have knocked him down. Juat as the defendant did. But. gentlemen of the Jury, that is not the law. Take the caae.' "Of course ther were no damages awarded." |