“If your point is well taken, the judge sustains the demurrer.”
“And that means you win the lawsuit?”
“Oh, no. Then the other side is given ten days to amend the complaint.”
“So that it makes it a better complaint?”
“In a way, yes. That’s the layman’s way of expressing it.”
“I suppose all this argument costs money.”
“Naturally, I have to be compensated for my time. That was why I told you five hundred dollars as a retainer would take the case through the stage of pleadings and up to—”
“Why in hell,” Bertha interrupted, “should I pay a lawyer five hundred dollars to go into court to tell the other lawyer how to make his complaint correct?”
“You don’t understand, Mrs. Cool. You persist in looking at it as a layman. There is a tactical advantage in having a demurrer sustained.”
“What advantage? Where does it get you?”