Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-10
TIE ADJOURNED Bah MEETISa.
Resolutions of the CuyahOga Comfy
Bar in Reference TO the DOath of
Leonard Case, Esq.

Fhe committee, Messrs. Sterkwesther,
Backus, siddon, Kelley and Bishop, ap-
pointed at the Bar Meeting on Thursday,
to report resolutions expressing the senti-
mems of the Cuyahoga County Bar in re-
ference to the death of Leonard Case, Esq,
reported yesterday morning, through their
Chairman, Hon. S. StarkWeather, to the
adjourned meeting as follows:
The Hon. Leonard Case, distinguished
citizen of this city and of this State, born
on the 29th of July, 1886, for many years
sn active member of this Bar, died on the
7th of December, 1854, at his residence in
this city at an advanced age. The Court
and members of the Bar, desire TO have re-
corded in permanent form, the testlmo-
ny of their love and veneration for his
character and the expression OF their sor-
row for the loss of one who has 30 long be-
friended them, by his courtesy and kind
ness, and who has so often aided them by
his wise counsels and correct judgment,
and who IN his practice at the bar, and in
all the relations of life was an example
worthy of the imitation of all.
For nearly half century he has been
identified with the growth and prosperity
of Cleveland, and his fostering influence
has been displayed in the beauty of its
streets and avenues, and especially in those
ornaments, which have given to it the ap-
pellatiOn of the "FOrest City"
As a prominent and leading member Of
the Ohio Legislature in its early legislationf
his influence was felt in the enactment Of
important laws-as in originating schemes
for internal improvement, which has made
Ohio, in population and resources, already
the third State in the Union, and especial
ly has the State been much indebted TO
him, for a. system of taxation which has,
at all times, sustained its credit, with so
much honor, at home and abroad.
To no other man is due a greater debt
of gratitude from the Inhabitants of the
" estern Reserve. For many years he
stood as the agent and friend between the
original proprietors of the soil, and the i'm
migrants who settled upon them, talthful
to the former, he was kind and lenient to
the latter. From his position he was made
more familiar with titles than any one else (;
his knowledge and assistance were ever
proffered to the innocent holder, and stern
ly refused to the unjust disturber.
Although afflicted all his life with inces-
SAINT bodily pain, he performed with un-
firing industry his daily labors. He was
distinguished in all his transactions for the
greatest exactness, and the most acrupulOus
integrity,
But the kind Deighbor, the good friend,
the wise counsellor, the honest man Is
gone. By the wise and ignorant, by the
rich and the poor, his loss will be alike
deplored in the wide circle of those who
knew him. For lasting testimony of his
virtues end of the esteem and Veneration
with which we shall cherish his memory be
IL
Resolved, That the Court of Common
Pleas be requested to enter record of the
proceedings of this meeting, and that copy
thereof be sent te the surviving son of the
deceased, with the expression of our warm
est sympathy. ...-..
Resolved, That the members Of this Bar
will attend, in body, tho funeral of this
deceased brother, this day at eleven
O'Clock.