THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RUSSELL SAGE
Mr. Sage. "Mrs. Sage has no recollection of having said that."
Mr. Choate. "Did you say to anybody that it was an outrage?"
Mr. Sage. "I have no recollection. I think it is the greatest outrage that was ever attempted by a respectable lawyer."
Mr. Choate. "Did you not say that you would spend $100,000 dollars in defending this case rather than pay a cent to Laidlaw?"
Mr. Sage. "I have great confidence in the courts of this state and the United States, and I am fighting for other people besides myself, and I propose to have this case settled by the highest courts."
Mr. Choate. "No matter what this jury says?"
Mr. Sage. "I have great respect for them that they will decide the case rightly. I want to know if a man can come into my office, and because a tramp drops in there and an accident happens, and an injury done, I am responsible for that?"
Mr. Choate. "These harangues of yours take a great deal of time. I ask you whether or not you knew that Laidlaw at the time of this accident had been very badly hurt?"
Mr. Sage. "Yes, sir; I knew he had been."
Mr. Choate. "Do not you know he was laid up in the hospital helpless?"
Mr. Sage. "I understand he was. Yes, sir."
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