I never liked lawyers as a class and to keep away from them and steer clear of their inveigling schemes and grasping machination - ever an active ingredient in their diabolical profession - has been my constant life-long effort. The incontrovertible facts in my case are these: there never was a better, all-round individual ever set foot upon the regions of this broad state than myself.
From 148-page will of Seattle eccentric Joseph Melchoir (circa 1900). The will was ruled void.