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Show Going Far For a Precedent. It is about IS years since the District of Columbia courts ceased to consider Good Friday a nonjudicial day. In Chief Justice Cartter's court at that time the old custom was first changed. Said the late Hon. Richard T. Merrick to the late Chief Justice Cartter: "You will not hold court tomorrow?" "Why not?" said the chief justice. "It will be Good Friday, " answered Mr. Merrick. "Court has never been held on that day. " "This court will be held," declared the chief justice. "Then," said Mr. Merrick, "your honor will bo the first judge who has held court on that day since Pontius Pilate." St Louis Globe-Democrat |