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etc., v. Landers (20 Ky. Law Reporter,GEORGE 913), DUwas RELLE. reversed on other grounds and that upon Judge Guffy wrote the opinion of the Court the second trial the prosecution (to quote sustaining the constitutionality of the " Sep Judge Guffy) could not " qualify the dog as arate Coach Law," an act of the Kentucky a witness " by proper proof of breeding, so Legislature requiring railroad companies to the matter was dropped in that case, but a provide separate coaches of equal grade or dangerous rule received the sanction of the class for white and colored races and pro majority opinion. hibiting the one race from riding in the cars Judge Guffy's labors in the Court have or compartments provided for the other.

done number much of to cases clearaccumulated the docket ofbefore the immense it. In the case of Pedigo v. Commonwealth • (19 Ky. Law Re GEORGE DU RELLE. porter, 1723), evidence had been Hon. George Du introduced in the Relie is the youngest lower Court to prove and at the same time that the appellant one of the most tal had been tracked by ented Judges on the a bloodhound from Appellate Bench in the scene of a mur Kentucky. He was der to the place born in Livingston where he was ar County, N. Y., on rested. This char October 18, 1852. acter of testimony His father was a dis was objected to and tinguished physician the majority of the who had been train Court of Appeals ed in the best east held that such evi ern colleges. Judge dence was admissible Du Relie inherited (the jury to judge of from both his parthe weight that en t s a mind of should be given to quick perception it), when it could and strong grasp be shown that the and a fund of humor that makes him one bloodhound was of of the most compan approved pedigree or purity of blood. Judge Guffy in a strong ionable men in the State. and elaborate dissent, that has attracted at When he was quite young his father died tention all over the country, objected most and his mother married Prof. S. B. Barton, strenuously to a rule of law that would allow of Center College. In 1859 the family re the life or the liberty of the citizen to be moved to Louisville where Judge Du Relie taken upon the testimony of a bloodhound, was brought up under the instruction of his contrary to the rights of the accused to be stepfather. After a course of study in pre confronted by the witnesses against him and paratory schools he entered Yale College in to have an opportunity to cross-examine or 1872. Upon leaving college he taught in to impeach them. His opinion is most read the public schools of Louisville while pre able as well as interesting and important. paring himself for the study of law. In 1874 It may be remarked in passing that the case he graduated from the Law Department of