LAWYERS BEATEN BY A WOMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 4

LAWYERS BEATEN BY A WOMAN.

Though women have been refused admittance to the English Bar, notable proof continues occasionally to be given of the possibilities of their sex in the conduct of difficult legal actions, demanding care in the presentation of facts as well as argument (says the London correspondent of the Age). There has just been an unusually interesting example of feminine skill and tenacity in the King's Bench Division, where Miss Emily Howe, a litigant who conducted her own ease entirely unaided, lias argued down two of the ablest K.C.'s of the day-Sir Edward Carson and Mr I.n-h—and obtained a verdict of t'J'i aviin-t Mr Charles Itusscll, a -olieitor, :nnl -on of the late Lord liiis=ell. "f Kiilowen. Miss Howe's complaint again-t Mr Ilu-sel) was that he neglected her interests when .vinie time jig., -he employed him professionally in connection with a claim to an annuity npivided for h«r in the will of a miri wi:h whom she had lived. It was a diPieult charge to prove, especially in view of ihe circumstance in which the .•iiTiuily had ben willed: but Miss Howe

-ii.ceeded in winning over the jury to her -ide. in spite of the big ba'itaiions ■ n the other, and stib-'ipioiitly the jn !gi. coTiioh'ii'd her happiness l,y <l,ii,l----'i:i/.i !"L-.il p"int in her favor. She doclurcl afterwards that sic knew nothing . f lev. and owed her -wee-- entirely i • th.' thoroiiL'li grip she had obtained |. :' :!. ■ f.M-t- of her ca-e. An evidence | t-:' li-r t!i TOULdmrss was seen in her I • ; ■■■:■'): ■■/. -, -i ■-h in ih" court, which oeeu-