CURIOSITIES OF THE LAW COURTS.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1685, 28 May 1874, Page 2

CURIOSITIES OF THE LAW COURTS.

Many of the queerest proceeding be* ■ fore the courts of law not get into the papers, recently, however, most likely on account of its being the silly season,, several eccentricities have cropped up in that usually barren and uninteresting portion of our best possible instructor, the legal column. A monumental sculptor, who cultivates high art somewhere in the vicinity of Highgate, sought lately to recover, in the Court of Common Pleas, from the widow of a poulterer, the price , of a monument erected by that lady to her husband's memory. The principal figure of the sculpture seems to have been an angel, which the forlorn Jady had ordered to be carved after a figure in; a. ' book, and be made to stand on the top of the tomb. But the angel as he was „ turned out of the studio was neither like the angel in the book, nor like angeliffe general. The lady's firat criticism watf in some senses professional; she noticed that the feathers on the wings were not cut deep enough. The ngurawas also, she thought, too slim and thin—a defect certainly in a fowl probably also in an angel; and it was also a natural objection. The jury agreed with the defendant, and gare a verdict against the sculptor.— Another curious plea was decided the other day. in the JSdinburg Small Debti Court .A lady had in her conservatory a sprig of myrtle from her mother's marriage bouquet, which had grown to a good-. * sized itee ; and on letting the house to a clergyman she had specially warned him to '* spare that treee, the, parson, however, pruned it overmuch, for which he bad to pay to.the lady £2 10s as the value of,the tree, and £115 as a solatium to her wounded feelings. —In the' same 'northem county a young lady obtained,' the , other day, substantial damages from a barber who had cut ten inches too much from her lang and beautiful hair.—Horn* > paper. ■" ■• ■-" .'. j, . ,-■ ■ ' . •;,