THE LAW’S DELAYS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2009, 13 November 1886, Page 3

THE LAW’S DELAYS.

A HARD CASE. It has been reserved for Adelaide to present us with the latest murkod instanco of the law’s delays. Years ago (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Globe) a man named Whittaker inherited an estate by reason of being aext of kin. He journeyed all the way Irons the States in the hope of enjoying his property, valued at some £IO,OOO. But the law had got its grip on the e lute, and the circas was much too fat a one to relinquish while there was a scrap of flesh on it. Year hv year !aw r point after law point was raised, and bilis of cost by the thousand folios piled up- Now Whittaker wotdd win the day. Then tho Crown would appeal and the case would be set back. Whittaker meanwhile was forced to work l itera'ly by the sweat of his brow to keep things going, for your lawyer, be lie ever so friendly, must have his fees. The years followed one another, and found Whittaker still fighting, tooth and nail, for his just rights, remember. At last, after twenty years’ struggling, the Grown yas finally beaten. Rut the ten thousand had long since gone into fche pockets of the advocates. Whittaker himself cou'd put eight years on to man’s allotted span. King Death too was abroad and right on the moment iff his triumph gathered the victor in after the hitter suffering from a fatal tit of npop'cxy. Did your readers ever hear of a more cruel ease, and will they still continue to believe that Dickens’ Jarndyoo or Jarndjce was in the least exaggerated.