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have considered an extra injunctign or two very con- 

 venient things to have in his house ; and yet, curiously 

 enough, from a legal point of view, those in Judge 

 Balcom's court seem to have been almost the only 

 properly and regularly initiated proceedings in the 

 whole case. 



" These little rural episodes in no way interfered 

 with a renewal of vigorous hostilities in New York. 

 While Judge Balcom was appointing his referee, Judge 

 Cardozo granted an order for a reargument in the Bel- 

 mont suit, which brought up again the appointment 

 of Judge Davies as receiver, and assigned the hearing 

 for the Gth of December. This step on his part bore 

 a curious resemblance to certain of his performances 

 in the notorious case of the Wood leases, and made the 

 plan of operations perfectly clear. The period during 

 wjrich Judge Sutherland was to sit in chambers was 

 to expire on the 4th of December, and Cardozo himself 

 was to succeed him; he now, therefore, proposed to 

 signalize his associate's departure from chambers by 

 reviewing his orders. No sooner had he granted the 

 motion, than the opposing counsel applied to Judge 

 Sutherland, who forthwith issued an order to show 

 cause why the reargument ordered by Judge Cardozo 

 should not take place at once. Upon which the coun- 

 sel of the Erie road instantly ran over to Judge Car- 

 dozo, who vacated Judge Sutherland's order out of 

 hand. The lawyers then left him and ran back to 

 Judge Sutherland with a motion to vacate this last 

 order. The contest was now becoming altogether too 

 ludicrous. Somebody must yield, and when it was re- 

 duced to that, the honest Sutherland was pretty sure 

 to give way to the subtle Cardozo. Accordingly the 



