Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-27 | Page 14 | Justice is Justice

1 Justice i is is- Justice iCe r BEDE of ot Minnesota Min Min- R Is a among ong the best of or storytellers and his friends regret that h he j i is If not oftener in evidence In Inthe tho the cloakrooms One of or his latest is this Many yc years rs ago there lived In Minnesota an eccentric Justice of oC the peace but who was s thoroughly honest and who tried to do Justice In adjudicatinG adjudicating cating eating differences s between his neigh neigh- bors The Tho old gentleman had a decided decided de lle- de- de hatred for the quirks and ancl quibbles quibbles quibbles bles of oC law and nd not infrequently he lie rendered his decisions without regard to the legal p points laid down by emInent eminent eminent em em- Jurists In a a. cert certain ln case before him It was as shown that justice w was ws s on the side of the plaintiff but that he lie had slept on his rights until ho he had legally lost them The attorn y for the defense defenso c called the justices justice's attention to this fact and cited a decision of the thc su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court to sustain him If It the supreme court made such sucha a decision it acted wrong said the justice Jus jus- tice I The attorney br brought forth volume after atter volume and read the authorities 5 You can stop where you OU are said the old justice as he pulled off oce and rubbed his spectacles for Cor I am satisfied satis satis- fled fied that such a n. decision was made by the supreme court but I want waRt to tosa sa say that if It that court sees fit to make a a. fool of Itself It If is no reason wh why 1 I should It Is la my opinion that the su supreme supreme su- su preme prenie court is a nuisance nuisance yes yes a miserable mis mis- erable nuisance and and I overrule its decision de do- cislon on this point and ancl give Judg Judgment men meat ment for the plaintiff Justice is jUdg 1 Justice justice Jus jus- tice sir In this court If