SETTLED OUT OF COURT.
A laughable story comes from the London Courts of Common Law. Two costermongers claimed individually the ownership of a donkey, and as the case was one for calling friendly arbitration rather than judicial interference, the presiding Judge recommended the suitors to go into the yard and settle the matter between them. His Lordship’s kindly meaning seems to have been misunderstood, for in the course of half-an-hour or so the “costers” returned into Court, one of them with his eyes blackened, and bis face cut and bleeding ; and the other in g state of excitement, betokening the authorship of his friend's injuries. The Judge learned, when it was too late, that hij advice had been accepted in its Whitechapel sense, and that the two had belaboured each other until one of them resigned the donkey to save himself getting half killed.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1261, 4 November 1884, Page 3
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144SETTLED OUT OF COURT. Temuka Leader, Issue 1261, 4 November 1884, Page 3
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