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authorities, English and American, pro and ject of his search, and he followed it with an unerring judgment. con thereon. "When engaged in the investigation of a ford Two v. Carwile, cases deserve 1 3 W. special Va. 572,mention, on the rights Radjudicial question his mind would sometimes of married women in West Virginia, and Pe- become so completely absorbed in the train gram v. Stortz, 31 W. Va. 222, on the ques of his thoughts as to make him forgetful of tion of " Damages." This is the longest the demands of physical comfort and bodily

"In and the discharge this no doubt of his shortened duties he his could days. opinion he ever wrote and covers 107 pages, health, and is quoted almost entire in the English and American Encyclopaedia of Law. His opin always be relied on with absolute confidence in those exigencies ions are widely which require firm quoted in the text ness and ability, — books and reports no public clamor or of other States. fear of personal un In the memorial popularity could in presented to the fluence his conduct. meeting of the bar Undemonstrative held in Charleston and apparently in in the Supreme different to the re Court chamber, Jan gard of others, he uary 18, 1890, in his was truly kind-heart memory, and from ed and fond of con the addresess there versation and so made, I quote as fol ciety. lows : "His nature was "In the discharge simplicity itself; of his official duties confiding and loyal his industry was in his friendships, patient and inde but firm and uncom fatigable. He had promising in his con a strong love for pure victions of right and mathematics, a love duty." which displayed its HOMER A.ofHOLT. the character and quality as These complete of the words an mangive idea as influence in all his processes of reason ing, and there is something of the strict and close logic of algebraic demonstration a sketch of this kind will permit. The best story I have heard of the extent in his legal opinions. He knew nothing of the parties to any controversy which came to which Judge Green's abstraction would before him for decision; he often failed even lead him when involved in the study of a to remember the names of the litigants; the cause is as follows : Judge Synder at one time went into Judge plaintiff and defendant were to him as im personal as the letters of an equation, and Green's room where the latter was deeply he applied himself to the solution of the absorbed in the study of an intricate question questions presented as if he were search of law involved in a case before the Supreme ing by known and inflexible processes for Court. They immediately began a discus an unknown quantity. Truth was the ob sion of the question. Judge Snyder in order