Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Wayne Tolivar of Gilmer, this excerpt from an early 1992 deposition in which James Moody of Dallas (Strasburger & Price) is questioning Wayne's "client about the operation of the family dairy business."

A. No. You have cow records. You know when they have their calf and when they're put into the barn to milk, and when they turn dry and are put out to pasture...

Q. Turned dry, what does that mean?

A. They're ready to have their rest period before they have their calf.

Q. Are all cows female?

A. I guess.

Mr. Toliver: All cows are female, yes.

Mr. Moody: I mean all cows they have?

Mr. Toliver: All bulls are male, too.

Mr. Moody: I'm sorry, I think of cows as being...

Mr. Gage: Cattle.

Q. Cattle is the big group; cows are the females. You can't tell I'm from Dallas? Y'all didn't milk any bulls did you?

A. No, they came through the barn, but they didn't get milked.

Full post as published by Say What! on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).