Law Humor

By texasbar

From Sid S. Stover of Jasper (Seale, Stover, Bisbey & Morian), this excerpt from the deposition of his client, Sharon Clark, being taken by Marc Scheiness of Houston (Scheiness, Scott, Grossman & Cohn). Sharon Clark testified that her arm had become entangled in a large machine, horribly injuring it and that she could hear the bones breaking in her arm. Then, the next question ? .

Q. What I?m trying to establish is that from the time you appreciated that you were caught and the time that you realized that your bones were breaking ?

A. I?m not appreciating anything like this. I?m not understanding you saying that. I didn?t appreciate this at all.

Q. I don?t mean it that way. I mean to appreciate as to understand and realize that your bone is breaking. By ?appreciate,? I?m using it in a different sense. I do not mean appreciate it as something you liked was happening to you ? . I?m using the word ?appreciate? in the context of appreciating in your mind what?s going on.

A. Yes.

Full post as published by Say What! on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).