TOSS OF A PENNY
DECIDING LEGAL COSTS SUGGESTION BY JUDGE Many disputes have been settled by a %»s of a coin, but it is doubtful if the method has often been resorted to for the settlement of differences of opinion •s to solicitors' costs. In the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court, in Sydney lately Mr. Lionel Dare applied for £5 5s costs in' a certain matter, but Mr. J. Rvan endeavoured to dissuade Judge Edwards from awarding more than £5 '3s. | . . His Honor listened patiently-for some lime, and at length advised the solicitors to settle the amount among themselves. " Go outside and toss for it," His Honor Suggested. ' Both solictors then went outsjde the rourt-. * A third party obligingly spun a penny in the air. " Heads! called Mr. Dare. The coin came down upon the asphalt with a sharp ring. The solicitors bent over it. The King's head was uppermost. Mr. Dare had won.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21279, 5 September 1932, Page 6
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