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Description
Photograph of Nancy Harrison pointing to misspelled courthouse sign. "Tain't right. -- Nancy Harrison points to misspelled courthouse sign" "What¿s in a word. To a layman there may not be much difference between "disposition" and "deposition." But to a legal mind they are words apart. That¿s why legal eyebrows were raised recently when the new courthouse contractor installed a sign reading "dispositions" over a county clerk¿s counter. It should have been "deposition" because this is where evidentiary depositions in lawsuits are received and filed. "We are going to remove the sign away ¿ I guess a lot of people have been wondering why we had a disposition section," said the Chief Deputy County Clerk W.G. Sharp. As for the meaning of "disposition" -- it¿s an act of disposing of something, according to Webster. That¿s what this reporter has done with this little yarn at this point" -- two Examiner clippings attached to verso, one of them dated, "March 16, 1959". Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Los Angeles--City--Buildings--County Courthouse, New
Time Period
circa 1959-03-16
Place
-118.24712,34.05647 -118.24506,34.05516 -118.2457,34.05449 -118.24763,34.05574 111 North Hill Street California Los Angeles USA
Source
3-1275-02805-9724 [Barcode] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-718 [Original Filename] Subjects 320 [Print Box] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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