THREE WOMEN IN COURT.
There was a jury trial in Justice alley the. other day, says/the Detroit Free Press, in which nearly a dozen people living in the western suburbs were mixed up as plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses. It appear that Mrs. Blank borrowed a wash-tub of Mrs Brown, and while in possession of the borrower, a cow knocked the bottbrh out. After a neighborhood quarrel, a suit was brought|to recover the amount. Mrs Blank thereupon put in as an offset that she had nursed the plaintiff for three days and received no pay. " Nurse me !" echoed the defendant, " why she did nothing while she was there but hog down custard pie and tattle about tlje neighbors." " CustarcLpie ! and who lent you; tbo sugar and egg's and lard to make itP" shrieked the other. His honor put his foot down and patched up a temporary truce and tlie .plaintiff fook the stand to testify about lending the tub and what it was worth. She established the value at 75 cents and here the defendant boiled over and exclaimed : " Seventy-fiVe cents .' Why both ears and the top hoop were off! It was the only tub she had had since her marriage, and that was ten years ago ! " "And I've had to lend it to you every Tuesday all that time!" retorted the plaintiff. His honor secured silence in the court and the defendant took the stand and said that her services-as nurse were*worth at least $8. ' "What ailed the plaintiffP" asked the lawyer. " Well, I don't know as I ought to say that her husband struck her with"—— " Don't you dare say thai I" interrupted J the plaintiff, " you know that I fell down the cellar stairs ! If my husband hit me on the head with a meat-platter as yours aid.l!"-— "I object!" exclaimed both lawyers in chorus. "J36 do we ! " added both females in a breath. His honor pounded the desk until everything rattled, and then a witness was put on the stand to testify that she saw the, tub .when it was lent and again when, it bad been damaged. She had scarcely got,started when the defendant, whose witness she was, called out: "You are not swearing as you agreed -to!" ■—: - '"•--■ ■-:■■ ■.. ;. " Ah! ha ! I make a note of that! " chuckled one of the lawyers. "Your honor, I object!" added ,the other. • "And I would'nt believe the witness under oath ! " put in the defendant. ■" Who wants you to ?" squeaked the . witness. "If I couldn't come into court with .any thing better that a calico dress and a ten-cent lace collar, I would'nt hold my nose so high !" " This is too mach,~ten times too much, —and I want ■ this court-room cleared right out! " said his honor, and he turned the crowd into the alley.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3552, 15 May 1880, Page 4
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463THREE WOMEN IN COURT. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3552, 15 May 1880, Page 4
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