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 The Legal World Uniform ‘parfncnllip Ad A Uniform Partnership Act, drawn

of Uniform Commissioners and Ameri can Bar Association will meet.

up in accordance with the aggregate

as opposed to the entity theory, was favored at the meeting of the Committee on Commercial Law of the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, at Philadelphia Feb. 3-4. Three drafts were presented to the Committee, the

original one based by the late Dean James Barr Ames on the entity theory, one by Dean William Draper Lewis and James B. Lichtenberger based on

Personal

Alfred Stedman Hartwell, Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who is in his seventy-ﬁfth year, resigned

Feb. 2.

Chief Justice Hartwell was a

member of the Massachusetts legisla ture in 1867. Gen. George B. Davis has retired from the oﬁice of Judge Advocate General, U. S. A., on reaching the age

that theory, and one by Dean Lewis and Mr. Lichtenberger based on the aggre

of sixty-four and has been succeeded

gate or common law theory. The merits

by Col. Enoch H. Crowder, with the

of the two theories were discussed by able speakers. The advocates of the entity theory included Prof. Samuel

rank of Brigadier-General.

Williston, who thought this theory was consistent and solved some of the difficult problems of our present law.

He believed it to be the idea underlying the decisions in most states. A letter

The following nominations have lately been conﬁrmed by the Senate: George E. Martin of Ohio, Associate Judge

of the Court of Customs Appeals; Walter 1. Smith, Circuit Judge, eighth

from Judge Hough of New York favor ing this theory was read. The aggregate

circuit; Frank H. Rudkin, District Judge, the eastern district of Washing ton; Pedro De Aldrey, Associate Jus

theory was supported by Prof. Francis

tice of the Supreme Court of Porto

M. Burdick of Columbia, Prof. Floyd

Rico; Alfred E. Holton, United States Attorney, the western district of North Carolina; Edward Engerud, United

R. Mechem of Chicago, Prof. George D. Zohm, Prof. William R. Vance, Prof. Aymar of New York Law School,

and George Wharton Pepper of Phila

States Attorney, Dakota.

district of

North

delphia, and a communication from the

late Judge Francis C. Lowell of Boston favoring the aggregate theory was read.

The committee resolved that the drafts men, Dean Lewis and Mr. Lichtenberger, revise the draft adopting the aggregate or common law theory in accordance

Applause which lasted several minutes greeted Justice Charles E. Hughes of the

United States Supreme Court when he rose to speak last night at the annual banquet of the New York County Bar Association, Feb. 18, at the Hotel Astor.

with the views expressed, and present the same to the committee for further consideration at Boston in the latter

The demonstration was considered re

part of August, when the Conference

opponents of Mr. Hughes during his

markable from the fact that the gather

ing included men who were vigorous