11/01/2021

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THE COUNTY CLERK

The county Clerk has his office in a huge red brick building known as the Old Court House. Civil cases are,in fact, tried there, the proceeding inexorably dragging out until the contesants die or abandon litigation. This is due to the vast number of records pertaining to absolutely everything, all filed in the wrong place so that no one but the County Clerk and his staff of assistants cand find them, and he often spends years in the search.
In fact, he still looking for material relative to a damage suit that was settled out of court in 1910. Large sections of the Old Court House have fallen in ruins, and others are highly dangerous owing to frequent cave-ins. The County Clerk assigns the more dangerous missions to his assistants many of whom have lost their lives in the service. In 1912 two hundred and seven assistants were trapped in a collapse of the North-by-North-East wing.
When suit is brought against anyone in the Zone, his lawyers connive to have the case transferred to the Old Court House.Once this is done, the plaintiff has lost the case, so the only cases that actually go to trial in the Old Court House are those instigated by eccentrics and paranoids who want “a public hearing,” which they rarely get since only the most desperate famine of news will bring a reporter to the Old Court House.