The Last Laugh.
Correspondents who are complaining just now of the petty vexations to be found in lawyer’s bills of costs may find consolation in the knowledge that the fight between attorneys and clients over this question is of as ancient origin as the classes themselves. Many years ago-one attorney charged the regulation six-and-eightpence for social visits to a client.
The latter responded by filling an account for the attorney’s eating and drinking, and, the point coming for trial, the lawyer bad to pay. The laugh, however, did not then and there end.
The attorney lodged against his client an information with the Commissioners of Excise ior retailing without a license the wine for which he (the lawyer) had been charged. The unhappy laymen had *o pay, and the lawyer drew himself the greater part of the penalty as informer.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 15 February 1906, Page 3
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140The Last Laugh. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 15 February 1906, Page 3
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