My duty is, as a Judge, to be governed by fixed rules and former precedents. - Edward Hall Alderson

I apprehend that you may put a leading question to an unwilling witness on the examination in chief at the discretion of the Judge; but you may always put a leading question in cross-examination, whether a witness be unwilling or not.

Human nature is imperfect.

The Courts of law are not provided at the public expense, and were not intended by those who so provided them, for the settlement of any but differences which do arise in the ordinary course of business.