A LINCOLN STORY.
A story of President Lincoln is repeated in the Law Times, which can never be read by any lawyer engaged in the active exercise of his profession without very mixed feelings. The future President while still engaged in legal practice, was one day listening to the statement of a client’s case when after staring at the ceiling for awhile, he suddenly swung his chair round, and said : “ Well, you have a pretty good case in technical law, but a pretty bad one in equity and justice. You’ll have to get some other fellow to win this case for you. I could not do it. All the time, while talking to that jury I‘d be thinking, ‘ Lincoln, you’re a liar,’ and I believe I might forget myself and say it out aloud !”
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 93, 4 July 1902, Page 5
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134A LINCOLN STORY. Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 93, 4 July 1902, Page 5
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