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The Green Bag

(exclusive of index and table of cases,

which ﬁll a volume of over seven hun dred pages) to put the subject properly

“After a decade of the most distin guished service on the federal bench in signation, the fall to of 1879, accepthe the tendered position his re of

before the profession of the present day. Jurisprudence Professor of Real in the Estate Lawand School of

In l89l~92 judge Dillon was President of the American Bar Association, and to mark his senseofthe value and usefulness of that organization as the accredited representative of the Bar of the United States and of the honor of having been one of its presidents, he dedicated

counsel of the Union Paciﬁc Railroad tendered him at the same time. This resulted in his removal to New YOrk sional and thus career ended in his the oﬁicial state which and profs? he so

the ﬁfth edition of "Municipal Corpor tions" to that association. Judge Dillon telegraphed to the president of the asso

deeply loved and had so highly honored Let us briefly review it before touching

ciation, then in session, asking permis sion to make this dedication,which was unanimously granted. The Hon. P. W. Meldrim of Georgia, speaking on the subject, said :—

“In regard to the telegram from Judge would special lawyer of our

Dillon, it occurs to me that it be proper for us to take some notice of it. No living American has contributed more to the sum information than he. His great

work on Municipal Corporations will live after many of the existing corpor

ations themselves shall have perished. Great as has been his service, yet this

association loves him most because he has always been with us the charming

companion and friend.

It seems to me,

Columbia College, and that of general

upon subsequent even ts.

“For the repeated honors which had been bestowed upon him he was indebttd to no political strategems. I-Iis rapld advancements did not spring from that

source. They were gained by the Ste??? display of those superlative qualmﬁ that inhere in and, as it were. Cm?“

great lawyers and judges, and of wlllﬁh the instinct of unremitting toil is the greatest. He recognized with Carlyle that ‘there is a perennial nobleness and

even sacredness in work,’ and that l?" excellence can be attained only by "5 exercise. A more constant Observance of these principles has rarely been 50 we“ exempliﬁed in any other public man" “Of his labors on the state dist“ct bench and the superior abilities he

therefore, that a resolution should be passed to this effect: ‘That the American Bar Association appreciates the high

there displayed as a m'si prius judge‘

courtesy of Judge Dillon in dedicating

no attestation need be added to th?“

to it the new edition of his great work,

carried in what has already been 531d‘ While judge of that court he prepared

and expresses its appreciation of his courtesy and extends to him its very

digest lon's Digest." of Iowa reports, How this known cameas about “Dll'

best wishes.’ I move, sir, the adoption of the resolution." The importance and value of his

oughness trates he oncethe related he searching gave to to me, industry every andundertakingl asand it thof‘ illus-

judicial and professional labors are well expressed in an excellent article by Hon. Edward H. Stiles, an eminent law yer of Kansas City, published in “Annals

of Iowa," from which is extracted :—

and gave to the profession the 51:“

I give that relation.

He told me that

when entered and every he upon wascase the elected that careful district hadstudy been judge ofbefore each he

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