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ib. 580 (sales); Rockland Water Co. v. Tillson, 69 Maine, 262 (easements, dam ages); Weymouth v. Log Driving Co., 71 Maine, 29 (charter, negligence); State v. Tel. Co., 73 Maine, 518 (taxes); Stratton v. R. R., 74 Maine, 422 (trustees' liability for fires); Rhoda v. Annis, 75 Maine, 22 (fraudulent representations in sale of land); Barker v. Frye, ib. 31 (savings bank de posits, trusts and gifts); Veazie v. Forsaith, 76 Maine, 172 (trusts, principal and in come); Bank v. Copeland, yy Maine, 263 (exonerating treasurer Barron of the Dexter Savings Bank); Virgie v. Stetson, ib. 520 (levy, joinder in deed by wife); Stevens v. Kelley, 78 Maine, 445 (waters, ice); State v. Lashus, 79 Maine, 504 (intoxicating li quors); Stillwell v. Foster, 80 Maine, 343 (easements); Shaw, applt, 81 Maine, 222 (sustaining a provision for continuance of firm after death of partner); Guthrie v. R. R., ib. 578 (negligence). Judge Danforth wrote the majority opinion in State v. Harriman, 75 Maine, 563, which holds that, under our statute against cruelty to animals, the dog is not a " domestic ani mal." This case attracted wide attention because of the vigorous dissenting opinion by Chief-Justice Appleton, a portion of which is as follows : — "... He is a domestic animal. From the time of the pyramids to the present day, from the frozen pole to the torrid zone, wherever man has been there has been his dog. Cuvier has asserted that the dog was perhaps necessary for the estab lishment of civil society and that a little reflection will convince us that barbarous nations owe much of their civilization above the brute to the posses sion of the dog. He is the friend and compan ion of his master — accompanying him in his walks, his servant, aiding him in his hunting, the playmate of his children — an inmate of his house, protecting it against all assailants. Olway, the poet, says of them, ' They are honest creatures And ne'er betray their masters, never fawn On any they love not.'" Judge Danforth was prepossessing in his

personal appearance, having a fine form of commanding stature. He was nearly six feet tall, erect and of easy manners and ad dress. His complexion carried the color that belongs to a full glow of health, light ened with a full and " clear germander" eye that gave a perpetual charm to his benignant expression. No one familiar with him would fail in this connection to remember his fa vorite saying : " The unspoken word never does harm." He died at his home, in Gardiner, March 30, 1890. At the following session of the law court, held at Augusta in May, memo rial exercises were held, reported in full in the eighty-second volume of the Maine Re ports, page 582. These exercises, opened by the introductory remarks of the senior member of the Kennebec Bar, Hon. J. W. Bradbury, were followed by touching trib utes of Hon. Herbert M. Heath, Judge Titcomb and Hon. Orville D. Baker, and closed on the part of the court by his life long friend, Chief-Justice Peters. Perhaps no more fitting tribute to Judge Danforth can be given than the eulogy of Atty.-Genl. Baker, to whom Judge Danforth was known not only professionally but in all the varied relations of family friend and life long neighbor. He said in part : — "Judge Danforth was a simple man, no man ever more so. He dwelt with substance and had no care for show. In bearing, in character, in life, he was unaffected and true. His dress, his speech, all his tastes and pleasures were quiet and modest. Simple himself, he loved most things that were simple, nature and his God, and he lived ever close to both. "Long walks in the woods and by the streams, long looks at the mountains and sky brought him deep refreshment which others vainly seek from cards and wine. . . . He was a just man. No man ever followed more implicitly the line of duty, yet no defeated suitor ever felt that his de feat was due to the bias of the judge, and no criminal but knew that the judge who sentenced him would rather have set him free, if justice per mitted it.