Show anecdotes of the bar we llave have recently met with several legal anecdotes in the life of william Pl plumer urner edited by y the rev dr A P peabody of portsmouth mr plumer was admitted to the new bar in in 1787 wll wil when the administration of the law was very diffie different rent from what became becard the jud judgments cements of the courts of new at that day were based rather kalher upon tha hat t system of local law to lo which lle dle die circumstances of tho the th country and the derilas genius of the people had given birth than upon the principles of Eng engleh lidl law most of tile iho judges were not members of the he legal profession and during the revolution neither of tile the two persons filling the cafice of 0 attorney general wera lawyers JOSIAH BARTLETT a physician was mr liver mores successor ag as chief of him N w are told that when irie itie law was with the plaintiff ard ald equity seemed to him to 0 o be on tho the other othen sid side he was sure to pronounce in favor of the latter the object of the law being in all cases cw es to 6 jus tice lice as between the parties that must he be sabo sabe sabo sabe law in any given case conduced to tei that end it wa was at ally any rate better belter to be governed by a right principle than by a wrong decision at a court held beli in charlestown Charles town N IL 11 soon after jeremiah mason was to tile the har bar r ha he 1 casein which benja min miu west an oracle of tiie the I 1 w was amplo ol 01 for the plaintiff wet weft told the court that he e did not noe no know much about aboud demurrers demarree de murree lie ile rather doubted bether whether they formed any part of new hampshire liw at any rate it wab waa of evil example to intro dilce diio so unusual a mode of proceeding edin tho crier JUSTICE said demurrers were w ere llo lio no doubt all an invention of the bar to prevent nt jus justice i ice ire a part of the common law procedure buche but he hag had had always thought them a cursed cheat one of the associate justices said that the he essect effect of a deina demurrer arrer if he understood it was to take the cape from the file jury juryj to ba decided on sonie sonia ques question ion lon of law lw by the court 1 if I I 1 hat ilat be so replied led the chiei clief justice 1 I am clean clear ag dinst it as bel bei being inc ing fatal to the righta rights of the jury cibat but your 1 I 1 said mr afas Alas nii nil there are in this case no fact facts for the he jury to find so much the better replied aepli d tile tiie chief justice they will all the sooner brinl bring 1 ili in their verdict if the facts fads arg are undisputed let me advise you young mah man man 1 he e added adde d not 0 to o come hei bei heie hele e with your new law and above all till not to suppose that you know how to conduct a suit better than mr west you must try iry your cases as others do by the court and jury 41 1 judge harrington hannig HARniG TON of vermont a common comm on I seil sell sene selle e but most unlearned judge is reported thy to have defined a demurrer A demurrer W fal fat said id harrington owhy a demurrer deburr er if I 1 understand it ia is where 01 oil I 1 0 parly party having baving told ius his story the tili ot other er party gave save what then mr Phi phimeas mers biographer narrates the following anecdote oil on the tile authority of mr Web Webs sier ier ler who was present in court wilen the hie occurrence took place mr plumer was examining a notel quack doctor whom he be pressed rathe rather hard hara and alid irom from choin lie could at last get no other a answel u swei to his inquiries than ido oid loo not know sir after atter this thich had I 1 d been bern several time repeated the question queston came tame can yon sav say sav doctor that as a physician youk now nov anything 11 changing at once the tone of pre pretended fe ignorance with binch winch lie lle had hiis answered iye lye r tho tile former inquiries he drew himself up P galls IE his full 1 ighland said with great con fid ence rii ell kois koiv squire plumer Plu nier as much enuch of med medicine icille as yon y did aid of divinity when you yon were a baptist pre mctier ier ler 11 tin tins s sally silly drew a smile from court and baland baiana bal bai and seemed to the hie audience to be a v vy vry y fair bit his examiner said very ati et ly aw when herl bell I 1 found that tbt preaching was not cot my proper buriles bubines bu siles sines I 1 anad ierise cerise sense enough ough to leave it if you doctor ed es as much yau you would have leff left oll off he the practice of medicine yeas yea s ago ag I 1 0 and is ial wd 0 the ili til trouble of exposing your and p ion in thi this case the liuch us was now oi the other r me all ail and d the witness bitne qs wib wis dismissed crestfallen crest cresS and discredited cre cited from the stand A IS COTCH A traveler one day asked lapidary alp a idary if the file road he be were on was wae the hie way to aberdeen the knight of the lie lle tie hammer glad of all an opportunity to rest him hims himself kift hift s ift lf quietly sil suil sll noo whar cam am ye frae tile the gentleman entler nan uan neuley nettled at not receiving a direct answer eked li it m what busi busl business ness nesa have you with where I 1 came from the taking up his bis hammer and resuming res his occupation said sald 4 och just juet as little business bo siness as with wita loure youre rot q gaus km 1 I 1 t |