AN ECCENTRIC LITIGANT.

Evening Star, Issue 4285, 20 November 1876, Page 4

AN ECCENTRIC LITIGANT.

Before the Equity Court at Melbourne (says the ' Daily Telegraph '), on a motion for direction as to accounts in course of being taken before the Master in re Slack v. Atkinson, his Honor Mr Justice Molesworth refused the motion, with costs, whereupon Slack commenced to argue that his Honor had erred in not directing costs to be taxed on the lower scale. He said he had been entrapped into expenses by Master in Equity and the Court, and he would not be put upon any longer. The Judge allowed him an extiaordinary amount of latitude, and for half an hour the irrepressible Slack continued to quote authorities and bore the Court. As he was not making headway, he asked for an adjournment for a week, and promised to argue against the entire profession on that day. " I don't want to annoy your Honor," he said, " but your Honor has annoyed me very much. I object to your liberality at my expense, but on Thursday next I will explain the English law, and put your Honor right on matters." His Honor's patience became exhausted, and, amidst the declamation of Slack, he informed him that his repeated applications to the Court were absurd, and he would not permit him to waste further time. Slack collapsed, and, after picking up his green bag, left the Court, muttering, "I object to your remarks; I protest."