QUIPS IN COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1929, Page 7

QUIPS IN COURT

Mr Justice Eve, in the Chancery Division ordering a winding-up petition against a fried fish business to stand over for a week: I sec one of the-credi-tors funnily enough is Mr Haddock. *"* * * “He promised to pay when the job was done,” said an undertaker suing at Clerkenwoll County Court lor the cost of a funeral. Mr Registrar Friend: Do let us have a little decency of language. You are claiming for the cost of interring this man’s relative, and you speak of it as “when the job is done.” * # * * Man at Westminster County Court: 1 am only a layman. Judge Sir Alfred Tobin : But you can speak the truth. Some people say law. vers cannot, but they can, and a layman is expected to. * * * * “I don’t know about being drunk—f knew, though, that I had one over tlie.eight,”—A prisoner at Stratford, E. « * * * An out-of-work debtor at Bow, 13., County Court: I will pay 10s a month; my wife ought to earn that. ***** Magistrate at Highgate to man charged with drunkenness: What do you say the time was when you were arrested ? Defendant: 9.30. The constable: It was exactly eleven o’clock. ***** Willesden Woman: 1 want a summons for obstruction on my landing by mangle and bicycle. There are a few pails, pots and pans, but T sav nothing a knit that. * * * * * “When T am not sitting in this seat, as a magistrate I am the same as you or anybody else, and il the police tell me to ‘move along’ 1 always do so.” Mr Bingley. the Marlcbone magistrate, to a, prisoner. ****** “An omnibus driver is rather an aristocrat. TTe gets £4 a week.”— Judge at West London County Court.