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 The Green Bag

544 Obituary

Collins, Judge Loren W., former Jus tice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and a man of nation-wide repute in the G. A. R., died at his home in Minne apolis Sept. 27. He was in his 75th year. Corbin, William H., a prominent member of the New Jersey bar, died Sept. 25, He was the law partner of Gilbert Collins, former Supreme Court Justice in New Jersey, and was president of the New Jersey Title and Guarantee Company. Dale, Richard, lawyer and financier, died in the Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia September 18. He had been prominent in railroad and express circles, president of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati and director of the United States Mint. He was eighty-five years old. Dunbar, Chief Justice Ralph, of the Washington State Supreme Court, died in Olympia, Wash., Sept. 19. He had been a member of the State Supreme Court since Washington was admitted to the Union and served three terms as Chief Justice. Lockman, General John T., of the law firm of DeWitt, Lockman & DeWitt, died at his home in New York City, Sept. 28, aged 78. He was a vestry man of Trinity Church, a director of the Lawyers Mortgage Company and the Mortgage Bond Company, a member of the New York Historical Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural His tory, and at the time of his death president of the St. Nicholas Society. Money, Former United States Senator Hernando de Soto, died Sept. 18, at his home in Biloxi, Miss., at the age of

seventy-four. He was elected to the House of Representatives in the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 53d, and 54th Congresses. His service in the Senate began in 1897. Both as representative and as Senator Mr. Money always had leading committee places. Pritchard, Col. Robert, one of the leading lawyers of Tennessee, died while pleading in the Circuit Court at Chat tanooga Sept. 19. He was 63 years of age. Robinson, Col. David C., a leading attorney of Elmira, N. Y., died Sept. 21. He had been mayor of Elmira and a member of the New York Assembly. Twiss, Stephen P., former judge of the Supreme Court of Utah, died in Kansas City Sept. 21, aged 82. He was once a member of the Massachusetts senate, and also of that of Missouri, going West in 1865. Wetherill, Charles, who died at Phila delphia Sept. 20, had served for a num ber of years as chairman of the Special committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association on Comparative Jurispru dence, the other members being William Draper Lewis and William W. Smithers. He was British editor of the Compara tive Law Bulletin since the first publica tion in 1908. The present Swiss Civil Code, which went into effect January 1, 1912, was translated into English by Robert P. Schick, Esq., and annotated by Mr. Wetherill, with references to every other known system of juris prudence. This annotated edition is shortly to be published in this country. Wright, Daniel Thew, Sr., one of the oldest members of the Ohio bar, who was appointed a member of the first Supreme Court of Ohio by President Hayes, died in Cincinnati, Sept. 10, aged 87.