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I shall reply in a temperate and respectful tone to every charge categorically, and there I thought the matter might have been settled in the afternoon. He wrote to say that if I would fix a count on Saturday, he would come down and take the cases which had been adjourned. On the Saturday he came, and his demeanor was, if anything, quite as insulting when we were alone as it had been before.
When we got into Court, he handed me a consent order for a reference, which had been drawn up in the regular or ordinary form, and asked me if it was regular. I said I thought it was, on which he said, "Then I do not think so." His objection was that the appearance paper, in which the defendant appeared without solicitor, did not contain the words "in person," which in my opinion are utterly immaterial.
All the accounts were passed, and then he suddenly said that in future he should not sign any Probate orders but that they should be drawn up from the Minute book. Of course, I have no objection whatever to any rule of practice, but hitherto the practice has been for the Chief Justice to sign, and he has never recognized any document unless it would be shown that the order or draft bore his handwriting.
The effect of the present rule will be, if it has any effect at all, to leave me responsible for all the money of the intestates, even after my accounts have been passed. I do not much mind this, nor should I mention it if it were not accompanied by insults, which in cold weather are quite intolerable and make one feel that one cannot do all one's work with ease, notwithstanding the intense heat, but I am quite unable to bear insults, which are perfectly gratuitous.
I do not interfere with any of the Coroner's questions. I confine myself to the duties I have undertaken, and I trust you will not think me unreasonable when I ask you to aid me, if you can, in avoiding what must, if unchecked, soon become a grave public scandal.
Yours faithfully,
Red Sibbons