An' extraordinary scene took place in the District Municipal Court of New'York when Judge Morris openly expressed his sympathy with tenants evicted bv "grasping and gouging landlords." The judge refused to sign a warrant for an eviction demanded by a lawyer for a building construction company, whereupon the applicant said he would take the case' to the Supreme Court. Then .judge Morris stood up. removed his judical r.)ba and said: "Lee me tell, you Sir thai you can take this case to the Supreme Court of the State of .New York ox to the United States Supreme Court at Washington, or to lull." Loud cheers 1 on the part of a court crowded with '-dispossessed tenants greeted this explosion. Judge Morris went on - to say that he could not sleep at nights* because of the women and children turned in to the streets, and ho • > raked God that the law now gave him power, which he would exercise in every case, to stay evictions for
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19200814.2.27
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1920, Page 5
Word Count
165Untitled Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1920, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in