Justice, Municipal Court of New York City
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1917
Copyright, 1917
BY
FREDERIC DeWITT WELLS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
MY FRIEND
CHARLES E. GOSTENHOFER
OF THE NEW YORK BAR
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS AID AND SUGGESTIONS
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
INTRODUCTION[ToC]
The author has tried to show the point of view of the ordinary man in a law court, as the various proceedings of a trial take shape before him. To the initiated, the whole book may seem too obvious; but it has not been written for them, but for those to whom these proceedings are 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.