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 The Legal World lation of Missouri and other states, together with a comprehensive discussion of the present movement for a reformed procedure. The newly elected president is J. W. Halliburton, of Carthage, Mo. Interesting papers were read on "Industrial Insurance, by J. M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney-General of Mis souri, and on "Employer's Liability," by Tyson S. Dines of St. Louis. M. E. Rhodes of Potosi, Mo., chairman of the house com mittee on revision in the last General Assembly, delivered an address on the manner in which the work of the revision committee had been done during the session. Then R. F. Walker and Homer Hall explained the manner in which the revision commission of 1909 was publishing the statutes. The feature of the occasion was the annual address, delivered by Mr. Justice Riddell, of the Court of King's Bench, Toronto, the subject being "The Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council." There was also an address upon "The New Code of Civil Procedure in the State of Kansas," by Judge Stephen H. Allen of Topeka, Kans. The annual banquet was addressed by Judge Philips, Mr. Justice Riddell, Judge Allen and P. W. Lenmann of St. Louis. An important feature of the meeting was the adoption of the following resolution: "That the incoming committee on constitutional and statutory amendments be directed to formulate and present a scheme for the unification and simplification of the judicial system of the state of Missouri, where by a system of judicature will be created ade quate to promptly dispose of all the judicial business in the state of Missouri." The plan is to be reported to the 1910 convention.

Necrology— The Bench George S. Purdy of Honesdale, Pa., Presi dent Judge of the twenty-second judicial dis trict of Pennsylvania, died September 1 at Mount Clemens, Mich. Judge Reuben James McNutt of Silverton, Colorado, died on July 31. He was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1841, and left for California in 1860. He was a member of the last terri torial legislature of Colorado and served as county judge. Judge L. C. Johnson, aged eighty-eight, died in Beauvoir, Miss., on August 14. He was widely known throughout Mississippi. He had held several positions of honor, having been chancery clerk of Marshall county for many years. He was a man of considerable learning. Judge Benjamin F. Hoffman, formerly a judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas and for twenty years one of the leading lawyers of Youngstown, O., died recently at his home in Pasadena, Cal., where he had lived for twenty years. He was ninety-eight years old. He had been private secretary to

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David Tod, Governor of Ohio during the Civil War. Captain Samuel C. Lemly, U.S.N., who was Judge Advocate General of the Navy during the Spanish War, and prominent in the Schley Court of Inquiry, died September 4, at Wash ington, D.C., after an illness of about a year. He was born in Salem, N. C., March 14, 1853, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1873. He served three terms, of four years each, as Judge Advocate General, retiring in 1904. Hon. William T. Wallace, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, died at his home in San Francisco, Aug. 11, in consequence of a stroke of paralysis. He was one of the most prominent jurists in the history of California. He was born at Mount Sterling, Ky., March 22, 1828, and went to San Jose Cal., in 1850. In 1856 he was elected Attorney-General. In 1870 he was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court, being Chief Justice from 1872 to 1879. In 1871 and 1879 he was a candidate for the United States Senate, but was defeated. Later he was a superior judge in San Francisco, from 1887 to 1899. While on the bench he was responsible for Chris Buckley being de posed as a Democratic boss. Judge Norman S. Buck, formerly associate judge of the Supreme Court of Idaho, a member of the last Washington legislature, died at Spokane August 20. On the bench in Idaho in 1885 he rendered a decision of national interest, on the ownership of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan silver-lead mine. The mine was discovered by one O'Rourke and his partner as a result of the pawing of a stray pack mule uncovering the outcropping. The owners of the mule later appeared, and claimed and were awarded a grub-stake inter est in the mine by Judge Buck.

Necrology— The Bar Branch H. Giles, formerly Deputy AttorneyGeneral of Colorado, of the Denver bar, died August 29 at the age of about forty years. Frank M. Mayfield, of Jeffersonville, Ken tucky, died August 29. He was born in 1870, in Washington county, Ind. He was twice elected Prosecuting Attorney of Clark county, Kentucky. Richard K. Cross of Baltimore died August 28 at Wianno, Mass., at the age of sixty-one years. He was a graduate of Princeton Uni versity and the Maryland Law School, and was well known as a lawyer in Baltimore. Harry P. Waitneight of Phcenixville, Pa., one of the most prominent members of the Chester County bar, and president of the