Temple University School of Law - Restatement Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Hegal 3fa8 t£ An Oral Examination of Debtor Lawyer—What is your gross income? Debtor—I have no gross income. Lawyer—Do you mean to say that you have no income at all? Debtor—No gross income; I have a net income only. I am in the fish business. ❖ £ Prim a Falia—Innocest Prisoner at the Bar-—Now 1 asks ver, gents of the jury, if I’d got away with all that swag, like they say I did, do ver s’pose I'd have hired this here little $15 lawyer to defend me? ♦ ♦ ♦ The following recently appeared in a Southern newspaper: Notice I)e co-pardnership heretofore resisting between me and Mose Skinner is hereby resolved. Dem what owe de firm will settle wid me, and dem what de firm owes will settle wid Mose. :» . 4. Consistency A female witness in response to counsel’s question stated that she was thirty years old. “What!” fairly shouted the lawyer, “Did you not testify five years ago in another case that you were thirty years old?” “Quite likely,” was the unabashed reply, “I am not one of those women who say one thing today and another tomor- The other day an attorney was airing his indignation. He had been robbed. Yes, sir, robbed right there under the eyes of the law. Finally the Judge noticed the fuming and fretting one. “What’s the matter now?” he asked. “Matter, it’s a confounded outrage. Had my overcoat stolen right from this room.” fhe Judge smiled a little. “Overcoat, eh,” he said. “Bah, that’s nothing. Whole suits are lost here every day.” t a Murder Justifiable A man arrested for murder was assigned a lawyer whose crude appearance caused the unfortunate prisoner to ask the judge: “Is this my lawyer?” “Yes,” replied his Honor. “Is he going to defend me?” “Yes.” “If he should die, could I have another?” “Yes.” “Can I sec him alone in the back room for a few minutes?” ❖ 4 ♦ Tit for Tat Most everyone knows that many lawyers take a keen delight in trying to confuse medical experts in the witness box in murder trials and often they are repaid in their own coin. A case is recalled where the lawyer, after exercising all his tangling tactics without effect. 116