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Title: The Man in Court

Author: Frederic DeWitt Wells

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THE MAN IN COURT

by

FREDERIC DEWITT WELLS
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

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_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION iii

I.--A NIGHT COURT 3

II.--THE CIVIL COURT 21

III.--THE JUDGE 39

IV.--THE ANXIOUS JURY