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Show Models to Help Juries. "For the guidance of the jury, counsel coun-sel then produced in court a model of the house about which the dispute had arisen." Many a time, in the course of reporting re-porting a law case, had I written the above or a similar phrase, before I met the man whose studied business It is to make and supply, for legal purposes, a model of anything from a country mansion to a stretch of roadway. road-way. Probably It was the Inadequacy of the language that led to his devoting devot-ing himself to the producing of "ocu- lar proof for the guidance of juries. Even the most eloquent of counsel may fall properly to describe a situation, situa-tion, especially If the technicalities are apt to be confusing to the lay mind. But when the actual "situation" In miniature Is produced In court, the glib tongue of counsel is silenced by comparison. For in the words of the old Roman poet: "Those things stimulate stimu-late us less which are heard by the ear than those which are presented to the faithful eye." Andrew Soutar In the Strand. |