LEGAL ANECDOTE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2489, 31 December 1886, Page 2

LEGAL ANECDOTE.

Mr Erskii:a LbfS Erskiae) is said to have forgotten fop which party I in;-a/particular cause* he bad beesj. retained ; and to tha ain&iecaent of the agent who had feed him, aad. the horror! of the poor client behind, he- uttered a fervent speech exactly in opposition to the he bad hired' to defend. Such'was the zeal of his eloquence that no . whispered rsmonstranoe from the roar, no tugging at his elbow, could stop-him. But just as ho was'about to sit down, the trembling attorney put a. slip of paper into Ms hand*: "You have pleaded for tiie,wromr patty;" whereupon with an air of infinite composure, he resumed tho threat of hia oration, saying. •"Such, my lord, is the statement you will probably hear from my brother, on the opposite side of the cause. I shall, now beg leave, in a veiy fow words, to show your lordship how utterly untenable are the principles and ihow distorted arc the facta, upon which this vary speeious statement has proceeded," And so tbau he wont oneo more over the -same ground, and did not tako his seat until ho had most energetically refuted himself, and destroyed fcho effect of hia former pleading.