The Green Bag
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SUPREME COURT CHANGES HE seating arrangement of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court has been changed because of the death of Justice Peckham. The Justices are seated in the order of seniority, with the exception of the Chief Justice, who always occupies the centre of the bench. The senior in point of service is seated at the Chief Justice's right,
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HE MISSED THE POINT DENVER lawyer writes to the Green Bag about an occurrence at the 1909 Bar Association banquet in Denver. Justice White, of the Supreme Bench, was speaking on the subject of “Humor" a la Eli Perkins, and in course of his remarks said, "Humor
has in it the element of the unexpected. Now, for instance, if I should say that a man
went from Denver to Colorado Springs, a distance of one hundred and twenty-seven miles, and—" A Voice.-—“seventy-five miles, Judge." (The mouse is in the trap.) Justice W.——-“What is that, sir?" W.—"The distance is seventy-five miles, not one hundred and twenty-seven, from Denver to Colorado Springs."
HERE have been some wonderful and odd substitutes for Bibles in justice courts," said one of a group of Kansas men recently, says the Kansas City journal. “There was a funny incident in Linn county, I think it was in ‘57—at any rate it was just after the great influx of free state men into Kansas. Many who had left their claims to avoid trouble the year before returned, but found their claims taken up and occupied by the pro-slavery element from Missouri and other states. "A squatters’ court had been organized. After the court had assembled the officers discovered that, although they were well supplied with navy revolvers and Sharp's rifles, there was lacking one thing which was deemed necessary. The judge requested the marshal to go and hunt up a Bible for the purpose of swearing the witnesses. After visiting numerous houses he returned and reported that there was not a copy to be found. .~ “ ‘Maker another trip; round up every house and bring a book,’ ordered the judge. “Again the marshal went forth. He scurried around a long time, but finally returned, with a. big volume, old and worn. The court looked at it. Large letters in the back proved it to be 'Gunn's Domestic Medicine.’ "The court surveyed the volume critically for a moment. ‘That will have to answer
