“When I hear of an ‘equity’ in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man
in a dark room – looking for a black hat – which isn’t there. ”
Quoted in in “Pie Powder”, Being Dust from the Law Courts: Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit, by a Circuit Tramp (1911) by John Alderson Foote
It’s actually Lord Bowen:
“When I hear of an ‘equity’ in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man
in a dark room – looking for a black hat – which isn’t there. ”
Quoted in in “Pie Powder”, Being Dust from the Law Courts: Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit, by a Circuit Tramp (1911) by John Alderson Foote