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Show oo PECULIAR PRAYER TO COURT Error of Stenographer Responsible for a Few More Gray Hairs in Head of Lawyer. "They say that a lawyer has been saved by his stenographer," said an attorney, at a recent lecture. "Thati Is true, undoubtedly, because a lawyer's law-yer's stenographer, who is observing, gets many points of law out of hor work. "But there Is another side to it that must not be overlooked, and that is the mistakes that a lawyer's stenographer stenog-rapher makes. The law terms are so technical that It is not within reason to expect tho stenographer to get everything ev-erything exactly right. "One of the most amusing errors that I have ever heard of In connection connec-tion with stenographic errors, if I may call It that, occurred In a certain law office the other day. Tho case was a divorce action, In which the plaintiff alleged cruel and inhuman treatment "Plaintiff, being a woman with all the common law disabilities, prayed the court for 'temporary alimony and suit money. The prayer was dictated to the stenographer and she wrote It out and mailed It to the court. "Shortly aftorward, the lawyer chanced to read a copy and found to his horror that the stenographer hod made tho prayer ono for alimony and soup money.' " |