August 8, 1908
LAWYERS ARE TO DROP
RICHARDS-HUMES CASE.
There's No Money in Sight, So What's
the Use in Battering Reputa-
tions and Countenances?
One of the many lawyers in the alienation case of A. J. Richards against John Calvine Humes made the statement yesterday that there would be no more proceedings.
"There is no money in sight for most of us," the lawyer said. "The bankruptcy proceedings into which Humes was forced made the prospect of a judgment against him not worth getting. Even the stenographer has not been paid yet for the work he has done. In the face of such a plight as this there is not much incentive for a corps of lawyers to go battering each other up, not to mention wasting their valuable time chasing witnesses."
The allusion is to a personal encounter two of the lawyers had on the first day of taking depositions.
