New Book Announcements Elliott on Railroads, 6 volumes, 3rd edition. $50. Volumes 1 to 3 will be ready for delivery early in October, volumes 4, 5 and 6 will be issued shortly after the first of the year. Schneider's Workmen's Compensation, 2 volumes. $18. This work will be ready for delivery November 1st. "SPECULATION AND GAMBLING." By James C. McMath. (George I. Jones, 202 South Clark St., Chicago, Ill.) Paper, $3; buckram, $3.75. This volume presents in compact form the essential elements of the law relating to speculation and gambling in options, futures, and stocks. The author offers it to the profession with the hope and expectation that it will be of service in the preparation and trial of cases in which the validity or invalidity of such transactions is in question. It is a most valuable reference book, and constitutes a mine of information upon the subject. Its material has been carefully gathered during a series of years, and covers the subject from many standpoints. The index is ample, and includes many references. An appendix contains the Illinois laws and decisions and refers to the annotations, case notes, and magazine articles which have dealt with the question. The work, in its condensed statement and copious allusion to authority, will answer the ordinary needs of the practitioner better than a larger and more expensive treatise. "TRUST ESTATES AS BUSINESS COMPANIES" (Second Edition). By John H. Sears. (Vernon Law Book Company, 1016 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.) $10. It seems to be almost universally conceded, at least in the absence of statute, that business trusts of the character known as "Massachusetts trusts" are, generally speaking, legal and valid. This device for the carrying on of a business seems to be growing in popularity. The subject has become one of great interest and importance. This volume is a new and enlarged edition of the standard work on the subject. It covers every phase of the question, and discusses the numerous inquiries that have arisen. The work is brought down to date by the inclusion of the recent cases, and contains, besides many new sections, a new chapter on the Police Power. The appendix contains reprints of legislation and approved forms. The work will be welcomed by the bar as the last word on the topic to which it relates. "TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC PROFESSION OF THE LAW." By Alfred Z. Reed. (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, New York.) This bulletin of nearly 500 pages, the preparation of which has occupied eight years, "undertakes to develop in a scholarly way the history and progress of American legal education. It describes the differences in conception that have existed from one period to another of our history; it aims to make clear the relation of the bar and of the bar examinations to legal education; and, finally, to develop the historical relation between a trained and educated bar and the administration of justice." Copies of the Bulletin may be had without charge, on application by mail or in person to the office of the Foundation at 522 Fifth Ave., New York City. "MEN AND BOOKS FAMOUS IN THE LAW." By Frederick C. Hicks, A. M., LL. B. (The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., Rochester, N. Y.) $3.50. These studies deal with the lives and works of seven great legal writers: John Cowell, Lord Coke, Thomas Littleton, Sir William Blackstone, James Kent, Edward Livingston and Henry Wheaton. The author presents in an interesting and scholarly way "impressionistic sketches of men and books famous in the law, with glimpses here and there of the events and people of the time in which the books were written, published and read." "We can no longer study Coke and Blackstone and Kent as the very foun The Better Law Office Equipment will include English Ruling Cases Extra Annotated (Earliest Times to 1900) British Ruling Cases Annotated to Date (1900 to Date) Thus reducing to a minimum the expense of keeping informed Investigate Through— The Lawyers Co-operative Ask for booklet "English Case) Publishing Company "Service Through Annotation" dation stones of the law;" observes Dean Harlan F. Stone in his appreciative introduction to the book, "but we can glean much from their lives and work and from the lives and work of those who, like them, have permanently influenced legal thought, to give to law study its human interest and to increase its real value. This the author has done; and in doing it has rendered a service to every earnest student of the law, who will find in his pages inspiration to know more of the makers of the great law books." Mr. Hicks has shown, in a very readable way that "law books have a human appeal because of what they contain, and what they represent in the history of society; because of their A Frequent Effect. "Never make up your mind until you have heard both sides of a story." "Sometimes that leaves you more perplexed than ever. Any man will tell you that who has ever done jury duty."-Louisville Courier-Journal. place in English literature; because they are impressive historical and biographical documents; and because of the vicissitudes through which some of the great books have passed. They have played and continue to play a part in the development of the enduring things of life,-philosophy, religion, social concepts, justice, humanitarian interest, political organization." From this point of view the time-honored treatises of the law acquire a new significance. Each becomes a forceful personality which has much to tell that is not included in its table of contents. We shall hope for the issuance by the author of subsequent volumes dealing with the careers and writings of other masters of legal literature. Strategy. "A beautiful lady lawyer to defend a beautiful client. What chance have we to win this case?" "Can't we get a few homely ladies on the jury?"-Birmingham AgeHerald. Travels Out of the There Was a Reason. "Why do "Why do you turn out for every road hog that comes along?" said the missus, rather crossly. "The right of way is ours, isn't it?" "Oh, undoubtedly!" answered he, calmly. "As for our turning out, the reason is plainly suggested in this epitaph which appeared in a newspaper recently: "Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way; He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.' "-Boston Transcript. Not in Vain. A tall, gaunt individual of the sort known in some parts of the South as "poor white trash," was ordered by the judge of a certain police court to stand up. "You are," said his Honor, "accused of profanity in a public place." "I reckon I did it, Jedge," said the cracker. "A nigger was tryin' to steal my hoss." "But you should know better than to take the name of the Lord in vain." "It wa'n't in vain, Jedge. You jest oughter seen that nigger run!" -Public Ledger. Carrier and Passenger. A correspondent who has recently returned from Florida writes that he witnessed this amusing incident on the train. A huge, red-faced conductor asked a little, dried-up passenger for his ticket. The little man couldn't find it, and at last the conductor said: "Now look-a-heah, you've just got one of three things to do. You can pay your fare, produce your ticket, or get off the train." Just then the embarrassed little man found the missing pasteboard. Presenting it to his florid opponent, he grinned, threw back his shoulders, and said, mockingly: "Now looka-heah, you've got just one of three things to do. You can exercise more, eat less, or bust."-Boston Transcript. Impartial. An English clergyman, Father Black, spent a great deal of his time visiting prisons and trying to reform the inmates. On one occasion a housebreaker said to him gratefully: "I must thank you, sir, for what you have done for me. There was a time when I knew nothing of God or of the devil either, but somehow you have made me love 'em both."-Boston Transcript. Beyond the Law. Connecticut has just passed an anti-bigamy law. Which reminds a writer in the Boston Transcript of the career of the man of Old Lyme, who has been handed down to posterity in this fashion: "There once was a man of Old Lyme, Who married three wives at a time. When they said, 'Why the third?' He replied, 'One's absurd, And bigamy, sir, is a crime!"" She Was in Luck. Although she was somewhat pale, Mrs. Litnitzky smiled contentedly as she entered her lawyer's office. When she had taken the chair beside his desk he had indicated, she announced: "Well, Mr. Moses, I've had another accident. Yesterday I slipped on the sidewalk down town and got hurt. The doctor thinks I ought to get damages." "Why, Mrs. Litnitzky," exclaimed the attorney, "isn't this the third accident within a month?" "Yes," she said proudly. "Ain't I lucky?"-Houston Post. An Exception to the Rule. “Always mind your own business," says a writer. "It doesn't pay to get mixed up in other people's quarrels." Nonsense! That's how the lawyer makes his living.-Boston Transcript. —and after 33 years the L.R.A. Is Recognized as "Service Through Annotation" While examining some old files in the County (Reproduction of Blotter Exhibit sent in by Mr. Howell) The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company Rochester, New York Without obligation you may send me sample pages and information on the L.R.A. system and its "Service Through Annotation." The Janitor's Definition. An inexperienced juror had been sitting in court for some days, hearing the trial of cases, in which the defendant frequently demurred to the evidence. The juror asked the experienced court janitor what was meant by the term, and received this reply: "A demurrer to evidence means that the jury must fix the damages for the plaintiff, if the law is for the plaintiff, and for the defendant if the law is for the defendant. Then the court examines the law, and if the defendant be an individual the law is for the plaintiff, and if the defendant is a corporation the law is for the defendant, and judgment is entered accordingly." They're Generally Full-grown. Having read that a boy was arrested "for driving an automobile under age," we are inclined to believe that the writer did not mean to say that. -Albany Journal. The A Searching Examination. minister was loud in his praise of the fat and juicy bird his colored host served for dinner, and finally he asked: "Where did you get such a fine goose as that?" "Pahson," replied his host, "when you preaches a good sermon ah doan ax you whar you got it. Ah hopes you'll have de same consideration fo me."-Boston Transcript. Scientific Advertising. The following announcement appeared in a Tennessee paper: "All the folks that do not believe in a fire and brimstone hell, like Dives, will go there just to see, and, like Dives, would be glad to pay all their mean debts left in the earth for one drop of water. Attorney writes deeds for $1." Simplified Procedure. Among some of the tribes in the Arctic region, a man who wants a divorce leaves home in anger, and does not return for several days. The wife takes the hint and departs. A Dead Issue. Among the cases docketed in a California court, appears the following: "Est Harvey Myers vs Est Emma J Myers-Quiet title to lots 20, 21, 22, in sec 13, 1720, Graves for pltf." A Novel Defense "HERE is a 'Case and Comment' is unnecessary," writes a lawyer in Manila, who sends us the following pleading which was entered in a case in the court of first instance of Manila wherein he had brought suit on a promissory note: Answer to the Complaint. The undersigned, attorney for plaintiff, answering the complaint, alleges: I. That he does not deny the debt of 782.43 which is demanded of the defendant. II. That as a defense he alleges: (a) That the fact that he has not, up to this time, been able to pay said debt, is due to fortuitous events independent of the will of the defendant; and (b) That defendant has asked plaintiff to give him an extension of time to make payment until the end of the present year. III. That in sustaining his defense defendant has suffered damages in the sum of 100. Wherefore, defendant prays the court to give judgment absolving defendant from the complaint, with costs to plaintiff, and adjudging damages against the latter as above stated. (Signed) Attorney for Defendant. Laoog, for Manila, 8 of July, 1921. |