Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Ronnie W. Baham, Jr. of Houston (Brown, Sims, Wise & White), this excerpt from his deposition of the plaintiff in a personal injury case which, Ronnie submits, might get "a lot" of laughs.

Q. What kind of work do you do on this house you just moved into? Carpentry work?

A. No. A little bit of wiring; wiring up a new meter box.

Q. Okay. Did you do anything else on it? Did you cut the grass?

A. I started to. I could do some, but I've got to quit and then go back to it. I can't cut it all at once.

Q. How big is your yard?

A. Normal size yard, I guess.

Q. Less than an acre?

A. Oh, way less than an acre. It's a lot.

Q. It's "a lot", as in "a lot," instead of "a lot"?

A. Right. A lot. Like a lot, you know, that you put a house on.

Q. "A lot" as opposed to "a bunch"?

A. Not that, no. Not a whole bunch. It's about - I would say 50 foot wide and maybe 100 foot deep.

Q. There you go. Now we've got it down to specifics. Now, that's a lot.

Full post as published by Say What! on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).