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Show NOT MUCH ALIKE. A well-known inventor and mechanical mechani-cal expert distinguished himself by a particularly skilful answer to what was intended to be a particularly hard question on the part of a lawyer who was cross-examining him. A party to a suit had taken out a patent on a new sort of truck car, a car mounted on two trucks. The validity va-lidity of tho patent was attacked, and tho inventor mentioned was called as an expert in the interest of the patentee pat-entee Counsel for the other side showed that it had been usual to transport long pieces of merchandise, as well as tree-trunks and lumber, on two small four-wheeled cars, to which the ends of the long thing were lashed, and he tried to make the expert acknowledge that a passenger car on two trucks was really the same thing as a big log lashed upon two small four-wheeled cars. The expert could not be brought to the admission, and after a multitude of sharp questions the lawyer said: "Will you please tell the court wherein consists the difference Between Be-tween a log lashed to two four-wheeled cars, and a passenger car riding on two trucks?" The expert thought for a moment, and then answered: "Sir, a log lashed to two trucks Is no more a passenger car riding on two trucks than two men carrying a log between them on their shoulders are a quadruped." Case and Comment. |