PROBLEMS AND METHODS IN LEGAL RESEARCH How would you proceed to answer these questions? Solutions by the Legal Research Department of The American Law Book Company [Editor's note: If our law student readers will systematically go through the questions and answers discussed in this department, having at hand a copy of Dr. Kiser's book, "Principles and Practice of Legal Research: Volume I," as well as a set of Corpus Juris, and will go from the department to "Principles and Practice" and from that to the analysis of each Corpus Juris title involved, they will in effect secure a valuable course in legal research, if none is given in their school, or valuable supplementary training, if their school gives such a course. This is one of the most useful departments of The Law Student, and we strongly recommend that each reader adopt the procedure just outlined-to go from each question to "Principles and Practice," and from "Principles and Practice" to Corpus Juris.] What about the act of C The Legal Research De- However, this problem finds juries resulting from the use partment is maintained by an appropriate place in this of explosives. The American Law Book column as illustrating the Company for the benefit of, character of the lawyer's task and without cost to, its sub- in finding the law applicable scribers. Its purpose is to to this case. make the pages of the Corpus Suppose, then, that B did Juris-Cyc system more completely available to the sub-not know of the accident to his machine, or knowing it scriber in his practice. had been bumped, had no reason to suppose that it had sprung a leak. Our first legal If you are seeking to determine a proposition and have difficulty in finding in throwing his lighted cig- GOLDEN GATE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF LAW Golden Gate College School of Law is housed on th third and fourth floors of the downtown Y. M. C. A. Building where the law is stated, write question is whether a defend- this act on the liability of de- in San Francisco. The building is of recent construction, bu us, stating all the facts that ant is liable for an act of a tendant was considered. We a quarter of a century of growth and development lies bac of the law school itself. Golden Gate College is one of th oldest, if not the oldest, evening law school in the Sa Francisco bay region. are essential to show clearly the proposition involved, as briefly as possible, with your question. We will tell you where, in the Corpus Juris Cyc System, the law and supporting cases may be found. third person affecting his erous to others. "Particular The college is located near the western edge of San Fran cisco's beautiful civic center, which contains the great Stat Law Library and various legal and political factors of the city and the state of California. Several of the instructor of Golden Gate College are drawn from among the state' legal officers. Golden Gate College gives a full four-year evening course under a staff of practicing attorneys. also found in this section a statement that in accordance with the general rules, the proximate cause of the inConsulting the Law Chart, jury must have been the act published in Dr. Kiser's "Prin- of defendant. A reference is ciples and Practice of Legal made to the title "Torts," but Research," this question read- a more specific discussion of ily falls under the grand divi- the case as it applies to negsion "IV Torts," involving, as ligence cases is found in the A law student writes sub- it does, a civil, as distinguished title "Negligence," to which from a criminal, liability, not we stantially as follows: A runs have already referred. into B's machine in a garage arising out of contract or out Following the analysis as beA subscriber inquires for of 28 Cyc, Motor Vehicles while trying to drive out, of peculiar personal rela- fore, we locate the discussion authorities as to the liability page 32, subdivision D, bu thus disconnecting the gaso- tions, and not relating to of intervening efficient cause of a telephone company for also of the following cases line pipe to the carburetor in property rights. Here, under at page 529. the negligent omission of the Forney v. Jones, (Colo.) 231 B's machine. B drives away the subdivision name of an old subscriber Pac. 158; Williams v. StringTorts," we find among the Our correspondent, upon and parks where the gas from his car leaks and fills tort titles listed "Negligence," being referred to the fore- from the telephone directory field, (Colo.) 231 Pac. 658; a hole in the street, and then referring to 29 Cyc. As we going citations, wrote as fol- of the city in which he is do- Miller v. Colonial, etc., Ins ing business, resulting in the Co., 117 Kan. 240, 230 Pac drives away from that place. glance down the list of tort lows: "I wish to thank you loss of a considerable volume 1030; Amick v. Bank, (Minn.) C arrives and parks his car titles, we notice also "Explo- for your prompt attention in of business. 204 N. W. 639, which also are so that the hole is between sives," referring to 25 C. J., answering my inquiry... Discussion relevant to this so recent that they could not his machine and the curb. which we may well bear in can truly say that though I While D is entering the car, mind in view of the facts re- spent days on other refer- subject is found in 37 Cyc, be included in the most recent C throws a lighted cigarette cited in this case, for use in ences, including text-books, Telegraphs and Telephones, Corpus Juris Annual Annota into the hole causing an ex- our further consideration of treatises, articles, and other page 1656, text 22, and page tions. digests, I obtained all my outlined in this article and 1658, by the methods already plosion and injury to D. Is it. B liable? information that I employed The following question in set out in orderly arrange- criminal practice is submitted from Corpus Juris-Cyc." ment in "Principles and Pracfor our solution: What is the tice," at page 83. effect of the failure of the A careful and thorough state's attorney to read an inlawyer investigating a subject will of course always condictment either to the court This is a fair sample of the kind of problem that is likely to come into any lawyer's office. It is typical in that it involves not one legal question, but a series of legal questions. plete. B Turning to the analysis of the title "Negligence," in 29 Cyc, page 400, we find Roman subdivision "V. Care Required I Chart Our next inquiry falls withand Liability in General." in the grand division "VI Next, following down the cap- Remedies." It is as follows: ital letter subdivisions, we find A suit is brought in manda- sult the Annotations before or to the jury in the trial of on page 402, subdivision "H. mus by a citizen to compel he considers his search for a capital case? It is typical also in that the Persons Liable," and under the members of the legisla- the law complete. Sometimes The grand division "Remestatement of facts is incom- that, "3. Owner, b. Acts ture to redistrict the state even this is not sufficient, and dies" in the Law It does not appear of Third Persons," referring into senatorial districts, as re- in such case the Legal Re- might be considered broad whether knew whether to page 477, where the au- quired by the state constitu- search Department is glad to enough to include this questhere had been an accident to thorities are found upon this tion. Will mandamus lie to furnish any later citations in tion, especially as an examhis car; or, if he did, whether question. the legislature or its members support of any specific prop-ination of the grand division the circumstances were such But may not the law im- to control its or their discre- osition in Corpus Juris-Cyc to "Crimes" does not disclose that he should have known of pose some different liability tion in s ch a matter? its subscribers upon applica- such a title as "Trial" or its the effect in producing a leak. in the case of an explosive Familiarity with the Law tion, without charge. The equivalent. But by reference Quite possibly the client who such as gasoline than it Chart would soon enable a present inquiry brought a ci- to "Principles and Practice," brings in the story does not would in the ordinary case? lawyer to find such a title as tation of the recent case of vol. 1, p. 12, §27, we find that know. The lawyer must de- Upon this question, we refer is here involved directly, with- Masterson v. Telephone Co., in the title "Criminal Law" termine the law in either to the specific title we no- out resorting to the Law 299 Fed. 890 which is so re- will be found all general case, to determine what evi- ticed in the Law Chart-"Ex- Chart, except through his cent that it could not be in- questions relating to the condence he must produce to plosives," in 25 C. J. at page memory, aided, perhaps, by cluded in the most recent duct of trials to a jury in sustain his case. 180. Examining the analysis, the suggestion of the subject volume of Corpus Juris An- criminal cases, the respective as we did in "Negligence," we involved. So he would turn notations. (See "Principles functions of the court and find the existence and nature to "Mandamus," in its alpha- and Practice of Legal Re- jury, the necessity and requiof liability as to explosives in betic order in 38 Corpus Juris. search," vol. 1, last paragraph sites of instructions to juries, and other questions relating general treated in section 2. An examination of the analy- of $21, p. 63.) Following the analysis fur- sis then leads him very readily to the procedure on the trial ther, or following a cross ref- to section 257, page 688, treatand upon review, though not erence found under section 2, ing the subject of mandamus questions as to the organizawe are led to section 17 for to state legislatures or legistion of the jury nor questions a discussion of liability for in- lative officers. relating to witnesses. There This letter is not quoted as an ideal submission of a question to this department. We prefer to have the lawyer analyze his case and submit the essential facts, together with his specific legal problem for which he desires the location of authorities. Similarly, a request for a citation of the law in our system upon the subject of Motor Vehicle Registration Acts brought not only a citation needs of our inquirers. A re Not Void his agency with the company Infant's Appointment of Agent or Attorney Voidable, INTERNATIONAL citations: 2 82. or to the LAWYER DEAD Gordon Edward Sherman, education in LAWYERS WHO WOULD NOT GIVE UP VIII this difference in the treat ment of criminal procedure and civil remedies in the Corpus Juris-Cyc System: In the To the almost universal delivery by the infant and the Gordon Edward Sherman general title "Criminal Law" "I have read the article on are treated several subjects of Agency in your Corpus Juris, modern doctrine that all the sale and delivery by an agent procedure, such as continu-, pp. 430, 432, 446, 448, 712 and acts and contracts of an in- for him. The sale of the stock ance, venue, evidence, trial, 713, with the notes. But I fant are merely voidable, but by Kastel [the agent] was and appeal or writ of error, don't find a pat case either not absolutely void, there voidable only and not void." former Yale University proeach of which is considered way. The general rule for- seems to have been ingrafted Thus, New York joins the fessor and authority on InterEnder a separate title in civil bids the second commission. the exception that the act of numerous jurisdictions cited national Law, died November practice. So in the present But what I want is an appli- an infant in appointing an ag- in Corpus Juris [31 C.J. PP 28th, 1925 at Memorial Hosinstance, we find this ques- cation of this rule specifically ent or attorney, and conse- 1003, 1004 § 30] to the view, pital, Morristown, N. J. Mr. tion as to the reading of the to the loan business." quently all acts and contracts based on sound principle, that Sherman was seventy-one indictment treated in the It is not always possible, of of the agent or attorney under the act of an infant in aptrial subdivision of Criminal course, to find a pat case. If such appointment, are not pointing an agent or attorney, years old. He was stricken Law, 16 C. J. § 2051, p. 806. it were, the law would not merely voidable, but abso- and consequently all acts and with intestinal trouble." With our answer to this in- be the growing subject it is. lutely void. contracts of the agent or at-. Mr. Sherman was born in quiry also, we were pleased In the present instance, the The writer of the treatise torney under such appointto send citations of the fol- Legal Research Department on Infants in Corpus Juris ment "are voidable only and Morristown. He received his lowing cases published since submitted the following addi- [31 C.J. p 1003 § 30] asserts not absolutely void, subject to preparatory the 1925 Annotations: State v. tional C. J. that most of the statements affirmance disaffirmance Switzerland, and was graduKnotss, (S. C.) 123 S. E. 828 Agency, §§ 430, 431; 9 C. J. enunciating the exception are depending on whether it is to ated from Sheffield Scientific quot C. J.; Peo. v. Stevens, Brokers, § 76. Attention was mere dicta, "the cases either the infant's advantage or not; School, Yale, in 1876. From (Cal. A.) 235 Pac. 60; Gilbert called to an analogous hold- involving no question of ag- that he may ratify or deny 1911 to 1916 he was assistant F. Com., (Ky.) 264 S. W. 1095. ing presented in the latter ci- ency at all, or containing both the appointment of the professor of International Law tation in note 35 [i], page 578. other facts or circumstances agent and the act which the at Yale. Mr. Sherman was a Many of our correspondents The correspondent acknowl- which may have led the court agent has assumed to do for delegate to the second Panwrite, expressing their appre- edging receipt of these cita- to the same decision whether him." American Scientific Congress ciation of assistance rendered tions said: "I had looked the act was void or voidable; The opinion of the court of at Washington in 1915, and by the Legal Research Dethrough Corpus Juris casually thus many of the cases were appeals reported in 237 N. Y. partment. We pleased to hear when we have are always in my first reading, but had actions in which the infant 305, 142 NE 671, having been the same year was one of the revisers of the English transnot made very full notes and was seeking to disaffirm the decided subsequent succeeded lation of the Swiss Civil Code. in meeting the publication of the Corpus had failed entirely to notice act of the agent, as of course the case which is practically he had a perfect right to do, Juris title on Infants, is cited He was a member of many cent letter read as follows: "This will acknowledge re- much obliged to you." in point. I am certainly very or in which there had been no in the Corpus Juris-Cyc Per- legal societies and a frequent ratification of the act by the manent Annotations for 1926 contributor to law journals. ceipt of your letter. . . . In infant on reaching majority." at p 1533 to 31 C.J. p 1003 note He is survived by his wife, reply thereto I beg to thank one brother, and two sisters. This explanation of the exyou for the prompt and effi- French Women at the Bar cient assistance rendered me. ception in Corpus Juris is jusThe cases furnished me were One hundred and thirty- tified by a case decided in the squarely in point and were seven women lawyers actively New York court of appeals exactly what I sought for. I practicing at the French bar subsequent to the publication cannot praise too highly the gathered in Paris to celebrate, of the Corpus Juris treatise prompt, efficient, and courte- at the invitation of the munic- on Infants [Casey v. Kastel, ous assistance given to me." ipal council, the twenty-fifth 237 N. Y. 305, 142 NE 671]. anniversary of the entrance In that case there was a The following question is of women into the legal pro- sale of an infant's stock by William Pinkney was born | from 1816 to 1818. In the lat one of a class which comes to fession in France. When the his agent, and the question inus quite frequently: law was adopted in 1900 after volved was whether the trans-at Annapolis, Maryland, ter post he sought indemnity "Assuming that one is an one of the first and one of fer of the stock by the agent March 17th, 1764. In 1786, at for the losses to American agent for a mortgage loan the most strenuous feminist was tortious from the begin- the age of twenty-two, he was merchants by seizures under the Murat régime. He was company, and receiving reg- fights in France, legal lights ning so that conversion would admitted to the bar, and pracalar commissions therefrom as wagged their heads, and pre- lie as of the date of the trans- ticed from 1788 to 1792 in elected to the United States he turns in loans, is it legal dicted that women would not fer without demand or disaf- Harford county. He was a until his death in 1822. or him to contract with a take seriously to the exacting firmance. In the lower court member in 1788 of the Maryborrower to become his agent profession. Now the imposing [reported in 119 Misc. 116, 195 land convention which rati- John Hodges, charged with William Pinkney defended to negotiate a loan for him total continues to increase NYS 848] it was held that fied the federal constitution, treason in the circuit court of on his land running to this yearly, and many women law- "any transaction consummat- in 1795 of the Maryland house the United States held in company, and charge him a yers have become more suc- ed through a person whom an of delegates, and from 1792 Baltimore in 1815. The charge commission therefor, without cessful than their male col- infant assumes to appoint as to 1795 of the state executive against his client was based the borrower's knowing of leagues. an agent is not voidable, but council. From 1796 to 1804 on the latter's having surrenvoid," and accordingly held he was a commissioner under dered certain prisoners to the that the transfer of the stock Jay's Treaty with England of British at the time of their inwas tortious from the begin- 1794 to determine the claims vasion of Maryland and the ning. This lower court case of American merchants for District of Columbia in 1814. is cited in the title on In- damage through illegal cap- The claim of the prosecution fants in Corpus Juris [31 tures, and also adjuster on be- was that the delivery of the C. J. p 1003 § 30 note 76]. The half of the state of Maryland prisoners by Hodges to the appellate division affirmed the in its claim to stock in the enemy was adherring to them lower court on its own opin- Bank of England. In 1806, and giving them aid and comion [reported in 200 NYS 709]. with James Monroe, who was fort, constituting treason On appeal to the court of minister at London, he treat- against the United States. The appeals the lower courts were ed with the British govern- motive of Hodges in deliverreversed on the point, and, ment regarding the capture of ing up the prisoners had been disregarding prior dicta and neutral ships in time of war. by their surrender to the general statements to the con- From 1807 to 1811 he was resi- British General Ross to avoid trary in the jurisdiction, it dent minister at London. destruction of the town of was held that no satisfactory Elected to the Maryland sen- Marlborough, threatened by distinction can be drawn be- ate in 1811, he became attor- Ross if the prisoners were not tween a contract by the in-ney-general of the United surrendered. Pinkney's argufant and a contract by the ag- States shortly thereafter, and ment to the court on prayer ent for him. To quote from served until 1814. He fought for instruction on the law of the opinion by Mr. Justice at Bladensburg in the War of constructive treason constiPound, "Notwithstanding nu- 1812 and was wounded. Hav- tuted not only a close analymerous general statements in ing served in the national sis, but also an effective emothe books, sound principles house of representatives for tional appeal. His address to compel the conclusion that no some months, in 1816 he acted the jury was equally effective satisfactory distinction can be as minister to Russia, and was and resulted in a verdict of drawn between a sale and special minister to Naples not guilty. CHARACTER Character is a very important matter in personal relations and work-especially in the work of a lawyer. It determines success or failure for the lawyer as surely as the revolution of the earth determines day and night. Every man faced with the necessity of entrusting to the hands of a lawyer his personal relations, property rights, liberties, and sometimes even life itself, considers first that lawyer's Character. Character is essential to the success of a lawyeras important as integrity to a banker, a stock of merchandise to a merchant, or temper to an edged tool. The Character of every lawyer is reflected in the quality of his professional services-as his clients and the public know. Character of the kind that is the foundation of a [With acknowledgments to the American Educational Association, Philadelphia, Pa., which originally published the above matter in a form of more general application.] William Pinkney (1764-1822) senate in 1820 and sat there News of the Schools (Continued from page 1) University of Georgia Law The law department of the The Federal Reporter-300 volumes. semester Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass. Portia Law School Boston, Mass. Marquette University Law team. LaVern R. Dilweg, a junior in the law school, has been designated by Mr. Eckersol The Digest. System-119 on the All-American football The students are with much interest awaiting the usual annual lecture given by The American Law Book Company on law books. The Reporter System-1,250 The following State Reports Massachusetts-138 volumes. Kansas-29 volumes. Montana-3 volumes. University of Southern ment. Th Harvard has four graduates ant and Bankruptcy in the among the seventeen, with evening division. Dean Arthu Johns Hopkins second with W. MacLean will again teach the subject of Constitutiona two. Three men were tied for Law, after several years' in honors-Erwin N. Griswold terim. Miss Louise M. Davi of Cleveland, George D. Gib- has been appointed to the Los Angeles, Cal. son of Richmond, Va., and faculty and will teach the in The addition of two full- Charles R. Sellers of Morning troduction to the study of Iowa. time professors to the school Sun, law. Griswold, a of law will give this rapidly graduate of Oberlin, received A new elective course in growing school an unusually the Shelton Hale scholarship; moot court work and brief strong faculty of seven full- Gibson, A. B. at the Uni- making, to be given by Ralph time professors and more versity of Virginia and A. M. H. Willard of the firm of than a dozen lecturers in law. at Harvard, received the Ham, Willard & Taylor, will Announcement has not yet James Byrne Scholarship begin this fall on October 8th been made as to the identity given by the New York law- This course is open to nonof the two new instructors, yer whose name it bears; and members of the school as well but it is generally understood Sellers, who holds the Swaine as to registered students. that final arrangements have Scholarship from Iowa State Another new course to be been made for their employ- University, received no ad- offered in the fall, to be reditional Harvard honor. quired for freshmen, will be Professor Clair S. Tappaan The other scholarships were the course on "The Introducand Mrs. Tappaan left Los An- awarded as follows: tion to the Study of Law." Outside of these we have geles about December 25th Harvard Law School Asso- This will include instruction bought quite a number of for Europe, where Professor ciation Scholarships - James in the use of law books, how other books such as Abbot's Tappaan will enter Cambridge P. Hart of Austin, Texas, to abstract cases, and the Proof of Facts, Donovan's University to make an ex- University of Texas '25; principles of legal research. Modern Jury Trials, Freeman haustive study of comparative Waldo C. Poletti of Barre, The bar review course to on Judgments, Osburn's Proof jurisprudence. Before return- Vt., Harvard '24; Louis L. be given this year in preparaof Facts, Underhill's Criminal ing to America in September, Jaffe of Baltimore, Johns Hop- tion for the June examination Evidence, Zoline's Federal 1926, Mr. and Mrs. Tappaan kins '25; Joseph A. Cohen of is to consist of a minimum of Jurisdiction and Procedure, will tour the continent. Fall River, Harvard '24; forty lectures to be given by Wilson's Constitutional Gov- The school of law celebratAlbert G. ernment, Baker on The Con- ed the formal opening of its Baltimore, Johns Hopkins '22; of the faculty of Boston Langeluttig of Professor Frank L. Simpson, stitution, Sweeney's Safe- splendid new building on the James T. Mountz of Garrett, University Law School. This November guards of Liberty, and Car- U. S. C. dozo's Growth of the Law. 20th and 21st, being at home Ind., De Pauw '25; Max A. course is being given gratis to to more than 1,000 students, Kopstein of Duluth, Morning- seniors and will begin We have also bought an ad- alumni, members of the bar, side 25; Norman Lendenheim Tuesday evening, March 23d, ditional set of the Georgia and other friends. The new. of Atlantic City, University of 1926. Appeals Reports in 32 vol- building is a magnificent ediumes and another set of fice of brick and stone, with Park's Georgia Code in 12 lecture rooms, spacious livolumes, also United States brary, administrative offices, Compiled Statutes with all the etc., of which any institution supplements published by the might well be proud. (See West Company amounting to page 11.) about 20 volumes. campus, St. Marys College of Law Pennsylvania '25. Harvard Law Association Paul R. Harmel of Cleveland, Herbert Parker Scholarship 25. National University Law Washington, D. C. On The winter term of the National University Law School opened Jan. 2d. The winter term will end March 22d and the following day the spring term will begin. Under the system in effect at the National Univers We have filled out our four vided into four terms, each of eleven weeks' length. In addition a short extension term is held following the summer term. The degrees of bachelor of laws and doc tor of jurisprudence may be earned by completing the work of any nine terms, and may thus be reduced to about two years and three months of continuous university work. The graduate degrees may be Butler, Jr., who has resigned. earned in three terms' work St. Paul College of Law Law. THUMBNAIL BIOGRAPHIES OF GREAT AMERICAN LAWYERS William Henry Seward (1801-1872) William Henry Seward was born May 16th, 1801, in Florida, New York. He taught school at Savannah, Georgia, to help pay his expenses at Union College, from which he graduated in 1820. He was admitted to the bar at Utica, New York, in 1822, and began practice at Auburn, New York, where he continued to live. He soon acquired a large practice and real professional distinction, but entered politics and shortly became associated with Thurlow Weed. After 1820 he joined the AntiMasonic party, and attended its national conventions in 1830 and 1831, and served it in the state senate from 1830 to 1834. On the collapse of the movement in 1833, Seward joined the opponents of the Jackson Democrats and became a Whig. He received the Whig nomination for governor in 1834, but was defeated. In 1838 he was renominated, elected and reëlected in 1840, serving from 1839 to 1843. On leaving office he returned to the practice of law and made a national reputation in four criminal cases, one of them the defense of a negro, William Freeman, in 1846, involving on Seward's part in merely undertaking the defense the exercise of true moral courage in view of the appalling character of the crime and the excitement of the mob. Later, before his complete immersion in politics, Seward abandoned the general practice of law to specialize in patents. In 1849 he was elected to the United States senate and immediately took a prominent part in the anti-slavery agitation. In the presidential election of 1852 Seward supported General Scott, and in 1854 opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Bill repealing the Missouri Compromise and establishing the principle of popular sovereignty (on the question of slavery) in the territories. He supported the free state cause in Kansas, and on formation of the Republican party brought into it the remnants of the Whig party in the north. On Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860 he appointed Seward as secretary of state, in which post, after coming in personal contact with Lincoln, he revised his original low estimate of the man he served. After the Civil War Seward brought about the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. He died at Auburn, New York, October 10th, 1872. Southern Methodist Univer sity Law School Dallas, Tex. University of Baltimore The school has opened offer- Wills and Administrations inWilliam Lentz will teach ing nothing but first-year stead of Elementary Law this work, regularly offered by all standard schools, and stand- year; Albert S. J. Owens, ard casebooks are to be used. Pleading and Practice; WilJunior standing in the College liam Milnes Maloy, Adminisof Arts is required before en-trative Law; Hilory W. Gans, trance for a degree. All of Elementary Law; James K. these rules have been and are Cullen, Sales; and Roger B. being rigidly carried out. Howell, Agency. Professor Rhea has for the last six years been on the faculty of the Law School of the tire faculty will be announced. of Texas. Pro- It will contain many of the University fessor Holland received his most successful and best Law degree at the University known men in Maryland. of Texas Law School, June. 1925. During the present long session courses to be offered as second-year courses will be In the near future the Suffolk Law School en announced and at least two The mid-year entering class New Jersey Law School. Sparks from logs in an open fireplace are believed to have caused a blaze which did $2,000 damage recently to the New Jersey Law School at 33-35 East Park Street. The fire was discovered about eight o'clock. It spread from the first to the second floors. Firemen soon checked the blaze. The school was not in session because of the holiday vacation. Brooklyn Law School Notwithstanding the fact that one year of college is now required for entrance to the Brooklyn Law School the enrollment is still very heavy, a large percentage of the students who are seeking admission being persons who have received full college courses and not merely the one year of college, which is the minimum requirement for the present. The total enrollment for the year has reached 2,170. To assist students in meet. School The library is being in was As a result of the recent The Students may attend any The law school now has on one of the four divisions into its shelves some 1,500 volumes which the freshman class is of Reports and of latest divided. The first division Digests, American and Eng- meets from 10 to 11:30 A. M. lish, texts, Law Reviews, etc. The second division, which is These are being added to largely patronized by school The Iota Theta law fraterdaily and arrangements are teachers and business men, now being perfected by which meets from 4 to 5:30 P. M. University of Idaho Law nity of the Brooklyn Law School within the next eighteen By far the largest division in School of St. Lawrence Unimonths at least 5,000 volumes each class is the third diviMoscow, Ida. versity has finally embarked of Reports, English and sion meeting from 6 P. M. to annual meeting and other schools after confining on a policy of expansion into American, Digests, Encyclo- 7:30 P. M. The fourth divi- banquet of the College of itself solely to the local instipedias, Law Reviews, and sion meets from 7:35 to 9:05 Law was held on January tution for fourteen years.. At standard texts will be in the P. M. Students may transfer 15th. The commissioners of its semi-annual initiation, held law library. Plans are now from one division to another, the Idaho bar were the guests at the Alpha Inn, 111 Court being made for the erection for the work of each is iden- of the college on that occaof a Law School Building on tical. Professors Baker and sion. the campus of the university. Henchey teach Torts on MonThe registration of first- days; Contracts is given on year men is twenty-three, Tuesdays by Professors Hurwho have fully complied with ley and Spillane; and Profesthe requirements of the cata-sors Douglas and Fielding Ing. teach Agency. Dean Robert McNair Davis and Professor M. H. Merrill attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, at Chicago during December. ATTORNEY AT LAW Then he clerked in the office of Douglas MacFreer Who, sick of his bargain, threw him out on his ear. He hung out his shingle and started to pray For clients to come who were willing to pay. Street, thirty-two new mem- now driving a hack. 8 ICE バル News of the Schools (Continued from page 7) DePaul University Professor William F. Clark, Albany Law School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa. serve as Un I Northeastern University La School Boston, Mass. Several prominent Bosto lawyers are on the new con mittee on standards recent appointed at the School Law of Northeastern a guide to states versity, it was announced b this Dean E. A. Churchill. The constitution and by- framing legislation in Elias Field d pointed dean of the College laws of the new students' critical field. Dean Mikell and cluded are: are also Brown, Field & McCarty of Law, beginning with the organization was reported Professor Keedy of the National George K. Gardner, a men school year 1925-1926, and Professor Harry D. Taft, who and adopted at the last meet- members has been a full-time profes- ing. It was decided that all Crime Commission. The two ber of the firm of Goodwi students reading law in local bodies will work in coöpera- Procter, Field & Hale; an sor in the law school for the offices as well as law school tion. Oscar Storer, who has h As own practice in Boston. past eight years, has been students be admitted to memS. Allen, associate dean o made assistant dean. bership. the school and a member o the firm of Curtis, Poole Allen, and Dean Churchi complete the committee. time members Temple University Law This year two new full- District Attorney Elect have been Harold Blodgett said he The following changes Buchanan T. Whosis thought added to the faculty, namely, would urge before the board have been made in the law school was fine, Dennis F. Scanlan, A.M., B.L.. of supervisors that the county faculty: Albert E. Burling LL.M., and John J. Meehan, law library in the county of Bleakly, Stockwell & BurHe drove an ice wagon in LL.B. Mr. Scanlan has the courthouse be kept open ling, Camden, N. J., takes the degree of A.M. from the Uni- nights from 7 until 9 o'clock place of E. G. Scovel, who order to dine. versity of Oklahoma, B.L. and for the particular use of stu- has moved to Florida; George LL.B. from the University of dents. Mayor, Campbell said G. Chandler of Roberts & Wisconsin, and LL.M. from he would assist Mr. Blodgett Montgomery takes the place DePaul University Law in this measure in any way of the Hon. Charles E. Bart lett, President Judge, Common Pleas Court No. 1, who account of has resigned on pressure of judicial duties; and Thomas E. Comber, Jr., elected as professor of the law of Bailments, Carriers, and Domestic Relations, subjects formerly taught by Bertram K. Wolfe, who now specializes in Partnership and The Law He read all the books that He passed his exams well ahead of the rest; In fact, his work was considered the best. School. Mr. Meehan has the The day and evening divi- Northwestern University The Northwestern College school since its inception, and this fall entered upon his twenty-eighth year with it He gave the second lecture ever given in the law school, back in 1898. Mr. W. Barton Leach has come to the faculty this year to teach the subject of Evidence. Mr. Leach holds both his A.B. and LL.B. degrees from Harvard. He has taught International Law at Harvard University for three years and is now connected with the law firm of Warner. Stackpole & Bradlee. A new curriculm of the junior year was placed in efThe fect this September. courses in Partnership and bined in the Corporations have been comBusiness Associations, which business associations, Joint also includes the third type of Stock Associations. "The college is admirably administered. The question- The enrollment this year is and-answer method of in- about ten per cent larger than struction is carried out in no in any previous year. This formal manner. The practice is particularly gratifying in courts are calculated to qual- view of the fact that appliify the student, as far as pos- cants were very carefully sesible, for actual practice in the lected and show a higher profession. The Legal Clinic. grade of maturity than usual. whereby members of the sen- Nearly forty per cent of the ior class are required to as- entering class have had some sist attorneys in the conduct previous college training. of cases to which they are deFor an evening law school, tailed, is an excellent addition Northeastern University The law college was organ- to the instruction in the col- School of Law is up-to-date ized three years ago and it lege. Moreover, as far as the in so far as social activinow has an enrollment of Commission could discover, ties are concerned. At the 50 students and prospects high standards are maintained present time there are organare exceedingly bright for a by a rigid enforcement of ized two fraternities and one very much larger enrollment scholarship rules. The num- sorority. Women have been next year. ber of students has been kept admitted to the university neces- only since 1922. The sorority. The classes are being held within the resources down town for the conveni- sary for efficient administra- Kappa Gamma Sigma, was of ence the students and tion. All these good practices formed by students of the faculty and it is the hope of have had as a result an excel- class of 1927. It has made the directors to own their lent record in the bar examin- much progress toward estabation." lishing the women as a recogown law building. |