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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.
