unfamiliar. There are many who have a certain curiosity about the
courts, and at the same time a real respect for justice, mingled with
amusement at the panoplies and antiquated forms of legal procedure.

F. DEW. W.

NEW YORK,
_January, 1917_.




CONTENTS


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INTRODUCTION iii

I.--A NIGHT COURT 3

II.--THE CIVIL COURT 21

III.--THE JUDGE 39

IV.--THE ANXIOUS JURY 57

V.--THE STRENUOUS LAWYER 75

VI.--THE WORRIED CLIENT 93