Hill Lawyer

The National Broadcasting Company presents Adventure Ahead! The National Broadcasting Company presents Adventure Ahead! Today Adventure Ahead takes you on what began as a title searching trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains with the young lawyer Jim Martin.

This was Jim's first case, and he expected to encounter only a simple problem in law. But soon he was caught up in a desperate struggle of the stony folk people to rid themselves of lawless swindlers.

It's a yarn that springs from intimate knowledge of these people and the mountain surrounding them. Because the author, Hubert Skidmore, was born in the Blue Ridge Country. So Hubert Skidmore's story of Hill Lawyer. This is stage to Stoney Floyd.

Yeah? Okay. You're the only passenger? I guess I am. You invested up here beside me then. Oh, thanks. I'll be all right back here. right back here. Sit up front, mister. Okay. Well, I should have satin back, shot the driver in the back of the head.

Oh, I see. So you're not taking chances, huh? Nope. Not on strangers. Yeah. You got business in the park? Yeah, I'm up here to see a fellow named Sam Dodrill. Oh, you the lawyer from Charleston?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm James Martin. Well, Sammy named it about your comin'. My name's Frank Praw. I'm glad to know you, Frank. I didn't know you back there. That's why I named it. You should set up here.

I can understand that. You say the last fellow who sat in back shot the driver? What for? Payroll payroll. Payroll? Yeah. Killin' another fellow made off with it. What payroll? Largin' company. They send money in once a week.