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 A Remarkable Will Case Fortunate for the due administration of justice is it that the bar and the bench are uniformly in accord. Indeed, it is this hearty support by lawyers who practice before a court that renders judicial life, as a rule, so grateful and so enjoyable. A judge at once feels rea sonably sure that his bar not only view him with kindly regard, but entertain towards him, with a possible exception here and there, a genuine affection. The circumstance that the intercourse be tween lawyers and the judge is perfectly open, and devoid of personal prejudice, affords an opportunity for the rapid growth of cordiality. The tributes which upon special occa-

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sions are paid by the bar to the memory of a judge who, after years of service has retired from the bench, or has died at his post, abundantly testify to the kindly nature of that relation which ex ists between the bench and members of the bar. The record of these occasions demonstrates how sincere is the esteem with which practitioners, both the young and the old, regard the man who has long and ably administered the judicial office. Moreover, the value of this admirable personal relation in fur thering the cause of justice, and thereby advancing the interests of the com munity at large, is not easily to be over estimated.

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Remarkable Will Case By Lawrence Irwell

[For obvious reasons the real names of the persons involved in this case are not given.] AT the time when the trial took place, personal property and leaving two sons the case of Grantham v. Garland did and a nephew, George James Grantham, not excite any particular attention. his sister's only child. The two sons, Although it was a will case, it was not Arthur and Thomas, were not exactly reported in the newspapers, probably model young men. Arthur, the elder, because it appeared to be devoid of though good-hearted and a gentleman, sensational features. The circumstances was unreasonably careless in money were, on the face of them, very ordinary, matters. Thomas, the younger, was and such as may come before any sur without redeeming virtues of any kind. rogate's court. There were, however, Old Mr. Garland, himself careful to the some extraordinary features which made point of parsimony, and a rigid stickler it almost unique. The facts as sub for the proprieties, had long ago quar mitted to the court were briefly as fol reled with both his sons, and had trans lows: An old gentleman formerly in the ferred all his favors to his nephew, grain business, Joshua Garland by name, George J. Grantham. The latter was a had died possessed of about three- young man after his uncle's heart— quarters of a million dollars in real and a steady, shrewd boy with considerable