AMUSING COURT SCENE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1272, 2 December 1884, Page 3

AMUSING COURT SCENE.

The case being argued was for old Farmer Closegrip v. a Kail way Company, for damages sustained in a collision. The old man's lawyer was making a pitiful appeal to the jury—" Gentlemen of the jury," he said, " just gaze upon the true, honest, time-beaten, fatally wounded old man ; think of the sad blow that his loving wife and his little innocent children would have had to receive ; but, thank Heaven, it was not so bad as that. But, oh ! How he must have suffered during those long days of his illness —how the heart-stricken companion of his life must have felt when they brought him home, bruised and mangled 1 Now, tell me shall this poor old man go down to his grave a maimed and helpless creature without some aid from the cause of his affliction V During this delivery Closegrip was noticed to be very much agitated, and, rising as the lawyer finished, he sobbed : "Judge,'scuse my breakin' in, but I must speak."' " Go on," commanded the Court. " I didn't know it wer so bad as it is, sir, till the gentleman that sot down ; an', ef ye'll let me I'll—l'll—" here he faltered. " You'll what !' asked his Honour. " Just raise them figgers on the railroad fer a few dollars more—make it a thousand instid of five hundred ; won't ye Judge."