Whitworth v. Krueger

Shakespeare might lay out the plot for this litigation in two lines:

(Whitworth): I fear that thou has sold off cattle mine.

(Cammack): Pear not, the court may yet make Krueger’s thine.

The Court, bedazzled by the titanic beauty of “The Code,” should observe itself to be playing the role of Bottom the Weaver. The Kruegers’ cows are to be awarded to Whitworths because, it is said, such a result is required by the law. I fear that Mr. Bumble, in his monthly law commentaries, will again find reason to say, “The law is an ass.” For what the majority does today is to reach a decision that would have…