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Consulting A Lawyer

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A lawyer in this city -was -waiting idly in hls office for the election to pass so tuat peoplc might resume their personal wrangles once more, says the Washington Star. He was so glad to see the young man who entered the room ii a hasitating way that he showed it in his manner. "This isn't much of a case," the young man said. "I don't know er I o'ight to ask you to busy. yourself with unything so smal]." "Sometimes a very lengthy and complicated piece of litigation will arise írom a very trivial circumstance," the lawyer said, hopofully. "I don't quite see how this affair could come into court; but you will have to be the judge of any such question as that. Last summer I made the acquaintance of a very charming girl. I was away on a vacation and had nothing to do but row her around in a boat all day and teach her how to piek out the constellations at night. I told her I thought she was the loveliest being on earth, and she said she didn't care how small mv salarv was andoh, well, it's the old story, and there's no use in going over all the details of a romance that flickered out. She doesn't speak to me when she meets me on the street now and when I go to the house to cali there is never anybody at home." t "It is very sad," the lawyer said; 'but I don't quite see what you want me to do about it." "AU that I desire from you for the present is information. I have heard of breach-of-promise cases where the aw is rigorous and unswerving in maintaining femininè rights." 'The law tries to be thorough in hat respect." "Well, it seems there ought to be two sides to every question. I'm not proesting against anytning that tends to discourage a gay Lothario. The law is all right on that point. And I don't mean to imply that a girl hasn't a right to chango her mind if she feete so disposed. But what I wanted to know is this: Can a man be considered legally and morally jüted unless he girl has returned the ?75 engagement ring he gave her when they plighted their troth?"

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Ann Arbor Register