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Show DIDN'T TRUST HIS LAWYER Shrewd Client Paid Fee In Advance to Learn If He Had Reasonable Chance of Winning, It wrts told at luncheon at the lawyers' law-yers' club the day before the Equitable Equit-able building burned down. A group of legal luminaries were gathered about a table discussing the apparent Impossibility of Insuring the honesty of any man, and It was contended that there was no remedy for It save to pick out your man and trust him absolutely. ab-solutely. No matter what safeguards you might hedge him about with, If he was dishonest he would contrive to cheat somehow. One of the lawyers law-yers told this story to emphasize his point: A client went Into a lawyer's office In Fulton street and said that he had a grievance with his neighbor and wanted to go to law. He stated all the circumstances of the case and cotmset listened attentively. The case fully stated, the client asked: "Well, those are the facts. Do you think I'm In the right safe enough to win If I go to law with him?" "If the facts are as stated you certainly cer-tainly have got a case. If I were In your case I should begin suit," answered an-swered tho lawyer. "And how much would your fee be for taking the case and pushing It clear through?" "Oh, I'll see It through for you for a hundred dollars." The shrewd client produced from an Inside pocket a well worn wallet, from which he extracted a roll of bills and peeled off one hundred dollars. "There," said he, "that's yours. It's your fee. That's all you'd get If you tried the case. Now, without doing any work on It at all, Just tell me, honestly, whether I've any chance of winning the case." |