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Show CONTENTION WAS ALL RIGHT Lawyer, However, Qualified Admission With a Remark That Had Unkind Sound. The jury was hearing the closing arguments in a damage suit before Judge Ben M. Smith, in which slandei was alle'ged. The attorney for the plaintiff had been directing his broadsides broad-sides against the defendant for his show of ingratitude, when the latter's counsel objected. "Gratitude is inspiring but is not a constitutional requirement," interposed interpos-ed the objector, who had borrowed several sev-eral law books from the other lawyef some time before. "One look as your face convinces m that you are right," said the first lawyer. law-yer. "If gratitude were a constitutional requirement you couldn't be a citizen." Chicago Evening Post |