Nitta v. Kuda

The blind goddess must, for the purposes of the instant case, be held to be also mute. She should ordinarily be attentive to the pleas of litigants, and prompt to pronounce her edicts; but here she can neither listen nor speak. The action before ns is a veritable Rip Van Winkle of a lawsuit. It has slumbered so long in some neglected file or forgotten pigeonhole that any rights the appellant may have had have been lost by the passage of the years. There is nothing we can do for him now.

The foregoing statements require some elucidation. Plaintiff’s case is based upon two contracts. The first…