“Verdict for the plaintiff, my lud.”
“And whom do you appear for?”
“I am for the defendant, my lud.”
“O! you’re for the defendant. Stop—let me have my note correct. I find it always of great assistance when the rule comes on to be argued. I don’t say you’re going to have a rule. I must know a little more of the case before we grant a rule.”
“If your ludship pleases.”
I did not gather what his lordship intended to say when he made the observations recorded, and can only regret that his lordship should have broken off so abruptly.
“What ground do you move upon, Mr. Ricochet.”
Mr. Ricochet said, “The usual grounds, my lud; that is to say, that the verdict was against the weight of evidence.”
“Stop a minute,” said Mr. Justice Doughty; “let me have my note correct, ‘against the weight of evidence,’ Mr. Ricochet.”
“Misdirection, my lud—with all respect to Mr. Justice Pangloss—and wrongful admission of evidence.”