The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-05

hear oil MIN. ne ROb noho VI goui
sneakin' ways neither. He goes right
for the substance Of things. Some Of
the lawyers don't like him. l do.
He'll speak out in school. Some OF
the lawyers don't like the law as he
settled Il in Daniel We. DeG~rofienseed,
IA Lea. But let me tell you about
case. II is a leading case in u state.
Why, it's chock fall OF law. 1t sticks
out OF the case jus. like the coal beds
in the mountains. 1t is twenty-three
pages long. II has a syllabus that takes
two pages Of fine print to state the facts
TO show the holding OF the court.
Now you just read what the court
holds In that case. The lawyers say
he don't give the text writers credit
for what he got Of them, nor the old
Judges f)r what he got of them. They
say be ought to have filed 1t with cita.
tions. Now, Jim, I'll you what he
did. He went over 100000 the other
way from what the referees did, aud
decided that case. It's a Waterloo. IL
Is a celebris CAUSE. / am for Judge
Cooke. These are my fayorites. Now
there's Judge Dsaderick. l don't like
him much. He is too strict. Ee's
too much in earnest. He's down, for
some strong opinions. He is mighty
good in one way. He helps a fellow
much that uses good language, and is
dignifed and decent in court. Why,
Pm on my Ps and Q5 all the time
when | am before him. 1 bet he'd
be burned on a stake before he'd go
hack on his word or DO a NEAR thing.
Jim, my darling, the Scotch Cove
nanter never bore himself more erect
w.. You bet he never turned his
"weather side" to the storm. But he's
a.going home. He's old and nell
BILE, and o sits on the bench for the
last time. Everybody honors him
for his purity OF character.
Jim-Is that Judge W. +. Cooper
one OF your Supreme CouIt2
Tom-Yes, Jim, but, but he's n Of
your sort. He Is an everlasting
worker. Why, that man does more
work than any man l ever saw. l be-
lieve he's gos an iron constitution. He
Is a working machine on wheels.
And, my goodness, there's no end Of
him. He Is just like n wheel. And
he is perpetual motion. Why, bless
your soul, he'd rather run through a
record than eat a good breakfast.
Fact is that man eats law, sleeps law
and writes law. He's got no wife.
Yes, he has, and children too. He
married Miss Equity. They used to
say Lord Eldon was the father OF
Equity. Now, Judge Cooper is the
husbond. Those two works, "Tennes-
see Chsncery Reports" and "Daniel
Chancery Practice" are his children.
He's the biggest equity lawyer we've
got. II you don't use his reports, you
know of him.
Jim-0, yes. He is good authority
with US. He is q wonderful man, and
your people may well be proud Of
him.
Tom-But, Jim, the fact is, the new
generation want a new deal. And 1t
Is no use disgusting the fact, the peo-
pie want a new departure.
JIM do not know much about the
new material, but it occurs to me !
would be slow to displace the old,
without knowing the new. That is
one place where the people ought to
seek the man. You know | despise
an ofice-seeker for such high place.
Tom-Ain't your standard too high
] know eth take many a PAINFUL to ge'
a little gold" rs the miners nave IT.
but / have an idea II there is a new
departure the people will be choice il
their selections. My goodness, Jim
it would be awful to turn Tom Free
man and Pete Turney out alter sixteeI
years work, and put in new materia
men that can't write like Tom, and
fnd the natural" facts like Pete.
know II don't look right to make al
Office perpetual, but I'd be like a tisf
out Of water TO see a bench with Ton
and Pete left ont, and 10 be beat by 6
Rahabitei But things look might.
like 1t. May be it's the Handwriting
on the wall. But would not we be il
a bad fix II we had a court that woul'
clean off the docket, and pass upol
the current questions Of the day
But, Jim, II l bad O bumper / woulS
drink to the health of Tom and Pet
(singinel, "My Heart is in the High
lands, etc" But jim, I've got on,
question TO ask you-what kind Of
man would you select for Judge Q
such a courtP
Jim-MCn Of vigor, judicial mint
not only able aud capable, but willin
to work-men who do not run roun
and seek the office.
Tom-Ge whillikinsl Why, Jim,
a fellow runs around aud actual
hunts up and gets such an Office b
T., Importantly and audscity and blarne
, and the devil knows what else, don
you know he's the very man to hur
out and find the law aud the facts in
record2
J~im-Such material never makes
Judge. Your Greens aud Turkeys an
' Wrights were not such. Audacity
( one thing. Judicial mind quite al
other.
Tom-Now, by George, Jim, that
8 true. And the truth is, II must ca
Q it, in the new material there is abilit,
r vigor and judicial mind not, howeve
v in these Rahabites.