Show an old idea of the law you vou would be surprised at the average layn cilas yI las idea of law said a brooklyn attorney some time ago as he sat tilted back in a his hi chair in the circuit court room 1 I mean as a to their conception ot of its requirements Iler perhaps haps thre there th re Is a just cause in many case cages but members of the profession who have pried under the surface to some ismall degree tan can not conceive how such blunders are made I 1 remember in particular an instance that came homo home tome to me some time ago I 1 was wits preparing a case for trial and hunting liun ting about for witnesses there was one man in particular who I 1 heard would w bo be a very v cry material aid to me on the stand I 1 went to see him but was surprised to learn that he did not know bait half its much as I 1 had expected after a short conversation I 1 came to the conclusion that he was holding back something after considerable questioning I 1 I 1 learned earn at last that he did know a good deal about the incident at issue after a long and cry very accurate account of the a affair the man turned to me and said 1 I am sorry that I 1 cannot testify to this on the stand I 1 was somewhat clum founded el and natu rally asked the reason he ile replied that at the time he lie had on hit his eyeglasses and that as be he had been seen the occurrence through them it was not of course evidence he lie was but following an old idea that anything been through glass was not legal evidence vid enco I 1 soon disabused dis abused his mind of that idea and his evidence helped bowin to win my case brooklyn eagle |