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tion or a corporation, if it arbitrarily uses its power to force weaker competi tors out of business or to coerce them

into a sale to or union with the combi nation, it puts a restraint upon inter

state commerce and monopolize: or attempts to monopolize a part of that

defendant, the manufacturer. The auto

mobile having proved defective, after ten months of use, during which an employee of defendant came at three different times to repair or remove its defects, plaintiff complained to the de fendant, who then promised to send a

commerce in a sense that violates the

man to put the machine in satisfactory

anti-trust act.”

condition. The Court held that upon these facts

Motor Vehicles. Warranty of Sale — Agency. N. Y. In Levis v. Pope Mfg. Co., decided by

the New York Court of Appeals June 16, a manufacturer of automobiles was held

the jury would have been authorized

to ﬁnd that T., as the agent of the defendant, made the sale and the ac companying warranties, and that the

printed circular permitted the inference

liable on a warranty made by an inter

that the defendant deemed

mediate selling agent. (Reported in 45 N. Y. Law Joan, p. 1655, July 11.) The plaintiff had purchased an auto mobile of T., a dealer, relying upon his

sary or useful that the aﬁirmations of

it neces

oral warranties and upon the warranties contained in a printed circular purport ing to be issued and signed by the

authorized its agent to do that which it thus indicated to be essential to the fulﬁllment of the object of the agency

quality which it contained should be

made in accomplishing the sales of the

car of which it spoke, and expected and

The Legal World THE MEETINGS OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND KINDRED BODIES HE thirty-fourth annual meeting of the American Bar Association was held at Boston, August 29-31, the Massachusetts Bar

$25,000 in the Supreme Court and making the Court of Commerce a court of patent appeals Baron Uchida, the Japanese Ambassador, spoke on "The Teaching of Jurisprudence in Japiﬂh'I

Association acting as hosts. The meeting opened with the annual address of the president, Edgar H. Farrar of New Orleans, in which Mr. Farrar

urged uniform state laws governing corporations rather than federal control, denounced the recall of judges, and opposed the ﬁxing of prices by a federal commission and the holding company device as tending to the creation of monopoly. Addresses were also given by former Jus tice Henry B. Brown, opposing the recall of judges and popular election of Senators, and by William B. Hornblower, decrying legislative interference with legitimate interests and ap proving the latest construction of the Sherman act. President Taft advocated salaries of

To show at a glance what was done this year the chief work of the convention is summarized below under separate headings. The meeting concluded with a successful ban quet, James M. Beck of New York acting as toastmaster. The following officers were elected: president, Stephen S. Gregory, Chicago; secretary, George Whitelock, Baltimore (re-elected); treasurer,

Frederick E Wadhams, Albany (re-elected). The American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology held its third annual meet

ing August 31 — September 2. Governor Foss, welcoming the delegates, expressed himself as in