Author: Archibald Robinson Watson

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781230020808

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...of the First Department (1896-1900). Mr. Thurber is one of the editors of BrmCn AND BAR, and will continue to take an active part in its management. He has made a specialty of counsel and brief work, and has been associated in a number of cases of considerable public interest, --such as the Tobacco Trust case, the action by the receiver of the New York City Railway Company against the Metropolitan Securities Company and the federal prosecution of the New York World for its alleged libels upon government ofiicials with reference to the Panama Canal. BaNCn AND BAR wishes the new firm every success. Hon. Nash Rockwood and Charles Haldane announce the formation of a partnership for the practice of law under the firm name of Rockwood & Haldane at No. 60 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City. Mr. Rockwood is County Judge of Saratoga County and has had an office for some years past at No. 35 Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York City. Mr. Haldane has for a number of years been associated with David McClure. If the great tribunal of which the late Justice Harlan so recently ceased to be a member were not regarded as one of the main foundation stones of our government, whose sustaining and supporting strength is supreme even over the personalities of its component parts, it would be little less than appalling to see such a rapid succession of changes as has recently been witnessed in the membership of the United States Supreme Court. For the death of Justices Peckham, Brewer and Fuller, and the retirement of Justice Moody, brought four new faces to that great bench within two years. Now death has claimed the veteran Harlan, than whom, perhaps, no more interesting or picturesque personality ever sat in that quiet chamber, where so much of our national..