Judge Taylor looked like most judges I had ever seen: amiable, white-haired, slightly ruddy-faced,
he was a man who ran his court with an alarming informality—he sometimes propped his feet up,
he often cleaned his fingernails with his pocket knife.
In long equity hearings, especially after dinner, he gave the impression of dozing,
an impression dispelled forever when a lawyer once deliberately pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up.
Without opening his eyes, Judge Taylor murmured, “Mr. Whitley, do that again and it’ll cost you one hundred dollars.”
He was a man learned in the law, and although he seemed to take his job casually,
in reality he kept a firm grip on any proceedings that came before him.
Only once was Judge Taylor ever seen at a dead standstill in open court, and the Cunninghams stopped him.
Old Sarum, their stamping grounds, was populated by two families separate and apart in the beginning, but unfortunately bearing the same name.
The Cunninghams married the Coninghams until the spelling of the names was academic—
academic until a Cunningham disputed a Coningham over land titles and took to the law.
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