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 The Legal World writ of injunction is the most effective meas ure we lawyers have," said the Governor. "The ordinary forms of legal procedure are blank cartridges." The new officers: president, Thomas H. Reynolds; first vice-president, Joseph A. Guthrie; second vice-president, Jay M. Lee; secretary, John G. Schaich; treasurer, C. C. Maddison. The Bar Association of Baltimore City, Md., will make an effort to effect the passage by the next Legislature of the expert testi mony bill which was approved at the annual meeting of the Association last summer at Old Point Comfort, Va. The bill gives the court the right to appoint an expert witness when necessary at the public expense when it is found that the parties are unable to meet the expense. It will be the right of the court, under the bill, to fix a charge for the expert's services and be responsible for it. The Vermont Bar Association held its thirty-second annual meeting November 2-3 at Montpelier, Vt. The retiring president, J. K. Batchelder of Arlington, presided, and those present included all the judges of the higher courts and Mr. Archambault, repre senting the Montreal bar. With the excep tion of the contingent fee clause, referred for investigation, the American Bar Association code ofethics was adopted. A resolution that a message of welcome be sent to J. M. Tyler, then on his way home from Europe, was passed. John H. Senter, in seconding the resolution, called Judge Tyler the greatest jurist Vermont has ever known. At the banquet Chief Judge John W. Rowell of the Vermont Supreme Court, referring to a letter in which Judge Tyler had described the robes worn by English judges and court officials, observed that the judges of Vermont might at some future time don robes if the judges themselves could overcome the difference of opinion in regard to the style, some being in favor of richly ornamented garments, he smilingly added, while others were for the plain variety. This elicited broad grins from the members of the bar. Other speakers were Judge F. M. Butler, T. Archambault, Warren R. Austin, United States Attorney Alexander Dunnett, Clark C. Fitts, F. G. Fleetwood and Col. J. H. Mimms. C. G. Austin is the new president, J. H. Mimms, St. Albans, being secretary. Necrology— The Bench Charles L. Adams, surrogate of Jefferson County, N. Y., died October 14 at his home in Watertown, N. Y. Judge Ira D. Marston, at one time a dis trict judge in Nebraska, died October 3 at Kearney, Neb. Judge William A. Brown died in New Castle, Ind., October 4, after a long illness. He was well known in legal circles throughout the state.

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Judge Jesse Talbot Bernard of Tallahassee, Fla., died October 29, at the age of eighty years. At one time he was one of Florida's most influential citizens. Judge Louis C. Payson, at one time one of the most prominent attorneys in Illinois, died October 4 at Washington, D. C. He was a representative in Congress from 1886 to 1892. Judge George Gary, an authority on pro bate law and one of the better known of the old school lawyers of Wisconsin, died October 22 in Milwaukee. He had held many public offices including that of State Senator. Former Congressman H. F. Finley, for many years a leader in the Republican party in Kentucky, died at his home in Williams burg, Ky., October 16. He was seventy-seven years of age. He had served two terms as circuit judge. Sir Henri T. Taschereau, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, of the province of Quebec, died October 11 at the home of his daughter in Montmorency, France. He came of a noted French-Canadian family, both his father and grandfather having been judges. He was knighted two years ago. One of the most widely known lawyers in the state of New York, Samuel D. Morris of Brooklyn, formerly judge, District Attorney and assemblyman, died October 31 at Lakewood, N. J., in his eighty-ninth year. He was one of the counsel for Tilton in the Beecher trial, and was the second oldest practising lawyer in Brooklyn. Judge D. A. J.' Baker died in Minneapolis, October 2, at the age of eighty-seven. He came to Minnesota in 1849 from Maine, where he was born and received his education. He was the second school teacher in St. Paul. The land boom in Old Superior, Wis., drew him there in the early fifties, where he was appointed judge by the Governor of Wiscon sin. Judge Drury A. Hinton died at his residence near Petersburg, Va., October 19. He was for twelve years commonwealth's attorney of Petersburg, and later was elected a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and served there with distinction, his dissenting opinion in the Cluverius case being considered one of the strongest opinions on circumstantial evidence ever delivered by a Virginia judge. The Supreme Judicial Court and Superior Court of Massachusetts paid affectionate tribute October 30 to the late Justice Francis A. Gaskill. Chief Justice Aiken of the Superior Court said:—"Judge Gaskill . . . possessed a charm of manner which no one could be in his presence and not feel. It was more than