Sleeping in Court Room

Court room humour get passed on from generation to generation among lawyers. Here is one which I liked to be very hilarious. This happenned during the English regime,
The Climate of Madras, sometimes due to the high degree of humididty becomes unbearably hit in the middle of the day (even in those days). It is difficult for judges somewhat advanced in age to struggle against the soporific effect of having to sit in the same place and listening to the drone of long arguments. These days it is called the graveyard hour
Eardley Norton (A senior advocate of those days, Norton Street in Mandaveli is named after him) was arguing a first appeal in which the questions involved were of a dry and uninteresting charecter which even a Norton could not make lively.
Chief Justice. Sir John Wallis was hearing the case. Norton went on citing decisions and reading out long passages from them. While so Norton noticed that Sir John Wallis had slipped into a quiet nap. And the Duffdar (the guy who calls names of the parties thrice in movies but in real courts his job is something else and he does not stand behind the judge holding a stick during the hearings) of the court was also enjoying his nap sitting and leaning against the dias; this made Norton irritated.
Norton suddenly pushed down the entire pile of books which fell down on the wooden floor with a loud thump. The sleeping Duffdar shot up from his sleep and so also the chief justice who woke up with a jerk
"I am sorry, my Lord" said Norton. "why, what is the matter Mr. Norton" asked the Chief Justice.
"oh! Nothing my Lord" said Norton "it is only the impertinence of that Duffdar to think that he can go to sleep in open court, just as if he is also a Judge.