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Anecdotes Of Justice Bradley

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
December
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Justioe Bradley, of tho supreme court, is a fraiJ slender luán, something 1 ke Mr. Evurts, but without tliat persuaslve, intenso style whicli makes Mr. Evarls a power before a jury. He is somowhat quick-tempered, and a number of good stories are told at bis expense. Once he went into a lawy er's office in New York an.l borrowed a new legal work for referonce, but fiuding boveml ailvertising pages inseited at the end where the index should have been, he tore them out iu disgust, saying: "They au't law, and no man lias a right to force his wares upou jou." On juiother occasion, when he was going froni Newark toTrenton to argue a c:ise, hia wife stoped him at tlie door and be_'ged him to go up-stairs and put on a new pair of pantaloons in place of the old ones which he had on. He rcluctantly did so, but wlien he hurried to the depot he was a moment or two late for the train. Remming to his house he went up-stairs, put ou his old pantaloons again, and taking the new ones which had caused the trouble he tore them into half a dozen

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Ann Arbor Democrat