A Practical Judge

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 96, 23 January 1886, Page 3

A Practical Judge

, »' . . . . . . .■; A good lawyer, it is said, ought to know something about everything^ -thai iv.he ought to have sufficient acquaintance Wjitji a little study, to master itparticulars. The County Court Jud^o ai, .Liverpool has illustrated this talent to v perfection in a reccn: trial before him, concerning the fit of a ladies bodict*. The Plaintiff averred thai tHe'garniont was badly cut, and the padd ing inseried by the defendant «a superfluous; The defendant averred i was wtll cuf, anl, Mi t the padding vas necessary »>n account oF certain di licie.i eios in I lii- piaintiff s fi. lire. J^i" Wmior . " Coultl i he reine.liiM l>y 1 1 n^ing uj^ the skirt a little higlu'rH" The nmiiz.mont of tko contciuhug partios at thi K v . hnical suggestion of llie jud^e i.-i'e.-cribcd ;is exlivnu' ; they frit that the whole of ihe matter was now in the hand of an ('Xpert, even llio delicate question of the lady being * too fat" or n >i, it vra understood bj both sides, coulJ bcsafolv h'ft to his lii-ceftiment. " I think," said Hi's Honor, " that the young lady haii better try on the bo'li # c." There was n momentary hesital'on'rttid a , blush' on 't: c jwrt of the complainant; but -eventually she marrhed : into the judge's -retiringroom,." «ith all the parties interested in the. trying it on;" wholh^r thi9 term included ihe judge himself is not quite clear, but his decision was bo doubt i accordance with the facts. His Honor "thought thatjthe bodfeerwas too short, but' that the skirts .might possibly be raised by the|iielu of a good dres> im» proxe^.l'.J JB3eBSn/le^.^e is always: excel lent but untess the selection to the office is confinod to family men, it seems impossible, that the possession of all this pecuhir information can be calculated upon in a , County Court j udge.