When the Suprene Court teas in session recently at Tientsin one of our northern contemporaries referred with admiration to the fact. that his Honour Judge Grain declined to doff his wig during the whole proceedings, notwithstanding the temperature of the court oom. In Shanghai likewise when the court is sitting wigs. are very much the order of ithe day, although it is rumoured that in weather such as this the lawyers have moments when they itch to shed them. It used to be done here in summer, although perhaps not in criminal cases, but that is as far as we have ever attained. We have not yet arrived at the happy condition which an American judge, sitting under a temperature of 85 degrees, achieved. It was a. libel case at White Plains, New York, and Judge Morschauser,. gazing at the perspiring jurors. said: "Gentlemen, if you jury mea desire to remove your coats and be more comfortable, you may do. so." No sooner were the words spoken, than, taking the time from the right, the jury discarded: ous and vests, sighing meanwhile with contentment If such were the case with juryman under a emperature of not more than 85, we can have sympathy with advocates who, gowned and bewigged, spend strenuous hours examining one cross-examining, quoting the law and marshalling facts. In these summer days fees would seem to be well earned.
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