TEA PARTY LAW.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 202, 29 September 1888, Page 2

TEA PARTY LAW.

Serving on a jury is anything but a cheerful task, aud we can fully sympathise with these who are compelled to do so. But of course the call of duty in such a case is imperative, and tyhen a thing must be performed it should as well l;o done properly. Ths way in which the enquiry was soqdgqfsd oa Wednesday certainly merita criticism, and ware if not that ths jurymen are above reflection a fee’Jng ot apprehension might ba created. The object of the emjuh'y, we assume, is to endeavor to discover the origin of the fire—to gsagtigip, is fact, whether it was caused by accident or design. We take it that the person or persons interested iq the insurance money gr(i umjer a certain ban until'has been pM¥gd jn qgen Pqurt that' tf?sy are honestly entitled to the Therefore all those forms that are asasidereq qe'qejsary to preserve the dignity of the Court should be in no way relaxed. In the enquiry referred to, however, the jurymen and counsel and insurance agent were sitting at the one table, notej yere being exchanged and otherwise things Xaqet; yew easily. In some circumstances this freedoMlirould he highly objectionable ; under no oonditions ii it commendable. Those responsible for it should not allow good nature to influence them in milters of this kind, *nd we hope that when the enquiry is resumed on Monday next there will be no groqqda fur queiUoniog the dlioipline ol the Gouri,