North Dakota Law Review/Volume 1/Number 4/Items Here and There
ITEMS HERE AND THERE
The new Judicial Council of the State of Massachusetts was organized in November, 1924.
The Chicago Bar Association is recommending to the Courts that a rule be adopted prohibiting the taking of photographs in Court.
Judge Everett P. Wheeler, of New York, member of the American Bar Association since its organization, died last month at the ripe age of 85.
The Supreme Court of Washington has disbarred Elmer Smith, noted I. W. W. lawyer. The charge sustained was that Smith had advocated the overthrow of the U. S. government by unlawful means.
W. Thomas Kemp, of Baltimore, Assistant Secretary of the American Bar Association 1910-1919, and Secretary 1920-1924, answered the last call in February. He was 48 years of age at the time of his death.
Missouri attorneys recently presented to the Legislature of that State a bill providing that the omission of non-essential words from an indictment shall not constitute grounds for reversal, and prohibiting reversals or dismissals on purely technical errors.
During the past six months twelve outside State and local Bar Associations have applied to the office of the North Dakota Secretary for information concerning our Bar Association Act. Similar bills were introduced in two Legislatures recently, Minnesota and Oklahoma.
Legal Literature just published: “Income tax Procedure” by Montgomery, published by Ronald Press; “Studies in Murder” by Herbert C. Fooks; “The Drama of the Law” by Edward A. Parry, published by Scribner; “Principles of Railway Transportation” by Eliot Jones, published by MacMillan Co.; “The Law Governing Sales” by Samuel Williston, 2nd edition, published by Baker, Voorhis & Co.; “The American Revolution, a Constitutional Interpretation” by Chas. Howard McIlwain, published by MacMillan Co.