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The Legal World tion rooms was destroyed. There is absolutely nothing left. The records of the court are all wiped 'out, including the judgment book. Fortunately, during my eight years’ service on the bench,I

Miscellaneou: At the annual meeting of the New

York County Law Association, held in March at the Hotel Astor, the follow

ing officers and directors were elected:

kept personal trial memoranda of all

President, Alton B. Parker; vice-presi

claims tried, with notations of what dis

dents, Joseph

position of each claim was. From this we can make up a record of judgments."

Wallace and David Leventritt; secre tary, Charles Strauss; treasurer, Edward

F.

Daly, William J.

The Assembly and Senate libraries,

M. Grout; directors (for three years),

stored with thousands of volumes of law

James L. Bishop, Charles A. Boston,

and code books, contained also a num ber of documents and manuscripts that

J. Hampden Dougherty, William A.

can never be replaced.

Lewinson, Morgan J. Charles E. Rushmore.

Keener,

Edward

Lauterbach,

Benno

O'Brien

and

Florida Slate {Bar ﬂssoclalion The Florida State Bar Association

The Government ﬁled suit at Cleve

held its annual meeting at Pensacola,

land,

Fla., Feb. 23, the annual address being

Electric Company of New York, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, the National Electric Lamp Company of New Jersey and thirty-two other defendants, alleg

delivered by the president, Jefferson B. Brown of Key West, and papers being read by George C. Bedell of Jacksonville on "The Outlook for Procedure Reform in Florida," by Lincoln Hulley of DeLand on “The Compromises of the Federal Constitution," by W. 0. Hart

of New Orleans on "Uniformity of State Legislation,” and by F. M. Simon ton of Tampa on "The Law of Conspiracy in its Relation to Labor Organization." The following officers were unanimously elected: President, W. A. Blount; vice-presidents from each

judicial circuit — ﬁrst, Thomas F. West, Milton; second, J. W. Henderson, Tallahassee; third, Cary Hardee, Live Oak; ﬁfth, William Hocker, Ocala; sixth, Herbert S. Phillips, Tampa;

March 3, against the General

ing a combination and conspiracy in

the manufacture and sale of incandes cent electric bulbs. The Government's investigation dates back to May, 1908,

when the Navy Department invited bids for furnishing 340,000 incandescent lamps. Fourteen bids were received and thirteen of them were identical to a penny-$50,631.23. Whether other actions against the "electric trust" will be brought will depend on the outcome of the present suit. Steps initial to beginning its active

George C. Gibbs of Jacksonville, and

work in furtherance of international peace were made by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at the ﬁrst meeting of trustees at Washington, March 9. Senator Elihu Root was chosen president of the endowment, Joseph H. Choate, vice-president, James Brown

the

Scott, secretary, and Walter M. Gilbert,

seventh, Joseph B. Jones; eighth, E. Noble Calhoun, Palatka.

Members of

the executive council-W. A. Mac Williams, St. Augustine;

E. P. Axtell,

Jacksonville; F. M. Simonton, Tampa; W. H. Price, Marianna. treasurer,

John

The secretary, W.

Arcadia, were re-elected.

Burton

of

treasurer.