Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Marc J. Shrake of Minneapolis (Zelle & Larson), this excerpt from the deposition of his client, the owner of a tree removal service.

Q. Now, is the crew responsible to keep track of the number of trees that are removed or trimmed?

A. Yes.

Q. Okay. How do you train them in doing that?

A. They are asked to count the trees that are going to be removed and they are asked to count the trees that are going to be trimmed. I believe they probably learned how to count through school.

Q. Is there any specific technique you give them to make sure they don't double-count or miss a tree as they do their counting?

A. A technique? In counting? I guess the only technique I'd have would be to start at number one.

Full post as published by Say What! on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).