Show evenhanded EVEN HANDED JUSTICE JUS rICE A DETROIT judge has taken a very sensible view of the course of aljury in his bis court in a case involving a breach of contract the plaintiff sued to recover the sum of wa the contract price of some work performed the jury found for the plaintiff but brought tn in a compromise verdict for A new trial was dim demanded and the judge I 1 in granting the application denounced denounce d the action of the lury jury as despotic and unlawful there was no such sum in the jhb complaint t and if the plain iliff was entitled to anything he should have had the sum specified in the contract the judge said no such despotic power is confided to any tribunal as that hat t of making contracts for litigants outside of tile the contracts they have made themselves 11 this compromise fashion of settling money disputes is generally wrong and unjust evet evec since solo moul proposed to settle the quarrel between the two women as to the ownership of a child by cutting it in twain and giving half to each contestant arbitrators and tribunals of various kinds have imagined they exhibited equal wisdom with the great jewish king by halving an amount is dispute and add thus really leaving unsettled the question in litigation 1 I can get half that load of hay 11 once said a waggish and well known limb of the law on a certain occasion as a load of timothy passed along the street why hows that was the query by simply laying claim to wit it and getting the matter arbitrated tte ne |