Dorrance H. Hamilton v. Carol C. Ballard

OPINION

Justice Flaherty,

for the Court.

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated, that,no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and…