Chapter 5

The round of the lawyers
Whereas they trampled down, for the first time, the ground of Big Apple, the big apple of New York, our travellers did not have a chance.
Pangloss, which had wanted to get a specimen of a daily newspaper, in a slot-machine of newspapers, made a fall and broke a leg. One urgently transported him to the hospital where he quickly was operated then plastered.
Calmed with his emotions, Pangloss considered the future with his usual optimism when he was attacked by a lawyer pack.
According to the latter, the responsibility for the editor of the new yorker newspaper was heavily committed in this accident which menaced seriously the future of Pangloss. It was thus advisable to start a judicial action in compensation. Fortunate Bigboss highly advised in Pangloss to choose a law firm to defend his interests. To refuse there would have been extremely discourteous with respect to the whole of this honourable corporation. Moreover, the new yorker editor, right now, had designated his defenders.
After rough higher bids, the Smith, Smith and Smith and Co cabinet, carried it. It promised in Pangloss million dollars of damages on which the Smith, Smith and Smith and Co cabinet would not take, for its expenses and the constitution of the file, more than 87 %.
Whereas the lawsuit entered its active phase, Pangloss, become litigant, learned that his adversary attacked the town of New York for its negligence in the paving of the pavement located in front of the slot-machine of newspapers. It claimed to him 100 million dollars of compensation. An excellent law firm, Johnson, Johnson and Johnson and Co represented the new yorker editor.
Meanwhile, the town of New York was turned over against the firm of public works, Public Works Company, which had carried out paving in front of the distributor of newspapers, by accusing it of serious defect. Its defenders, the famous law firm Smith, Smith and Smith and Co, asked the court to grant to its customer 100 million dollars of compensation.
At this time, the Public Works Company, dissatisfied with its stone provider, entrusted his interests to its lawyers, the well-known Johnson, Johnson and Johnson and Co cabinet. This one assigned the operator of careers Stone, Stone and Stone in justice by claiming to it 100 million dollars of compensation, for inadequate and dangerous material supply.
Stone, Stone and Stone precisely had just brought an action at law against the State from New York which had granted to him a patent of mining claims for a stone quarry whose quality did not correspond at all to what had been envisaged in the contract. The famous law firm Smith, Smith and Smith and Co defended his interests. Stone, Stone and Stone estimated his damage at 100 million dollars.
Pangloss learned, not without surprise, that the State of New York attacked him in front of justice. It was reproached to him, by his inexcusable imprudence, for having engaged a judicial action campaign which attacked serious the image of the State and even of the entire country and disturbed seriously their tourist activity. The State of New York had charged a considered cabinet, Johnson, Johnson and Johnson and Co, to prosecute Pangloss in front of the courts. One claimed 100 million dollars of damages to him.
The legal machine was launched and turned to full mode. The fees fell per tens of million in the pocket one of the cabinets of lawyers.
Some gained lawsuits that others lost. Others gained lawsuits that some lost. Tens of million dollars changed bank accounts. All the lawyers largely earned their living and even beyond.
Finally, when one made the accounts, Pangloss was not indebted any more to his defenders, the Smith, Smith and Smith and Co cabinet, that of 2 small million dollars. Magnanimous, the Smith, Smith and Smith and Co cabinet, who, in the business, had collected only 43 million dollars of fees, made gift with its unhappy customer of his debt.
Pangloss, extremely satisfied with this happy outcome, drew an undeniable conclusion from it: " All is thus well which finishes well in the best of possible worlds".
Chapter 6 :
Delights of the New World (2) : Plays of a democracy