St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-17
JUNIOR LEGAL STARS.
The Young Lawyers OF st.
Paul and Their
Fame.
They are Making Rapid Head
Way Up the
Ladder
That Leads to Fat Fees, COZy
Offices and Big
Cases.
Personal Points Of Some or
the Brightest Young Men
Of st. Paul Bar.

stick is rogue" Equal to the occa-
sion, the hiddieg barrister replied:
which end, my lord?"
From time immemorial the bar has
been noted for flashes of wit and humOr,
and from time immemOrial it has drawn
within its charmed circle men of the
highest intellect and broadcast mind. To
the ambitious student the law embraces
a wide field. but that which the major
ity yearn fOr-yea, as the Israelites Of
old yearned for the promised land-are
emoluments and prestige which cast
such a halo around the notable
crTmal lawyers of the land. Here lies
the true romance of the law. The
criminal lawyer is the recipient of the
homage of thousands, for. be he prose
cutting or defending. every word that
falls from his liBs is caught up by
crowded courts and chrOuicled by every
newspaper worthy of the name. The
commercial or civil lawyer fails to at
tract in this: he does not catch the
public ear A civil court is rarely the
rendezvous for the multitude, and the
dry prosiac harangueS on points of law
are not the kind of publications an editor
desires to see within the columns of his
paper. But a sensational murder-here
a splendid opportunity is afforded at
tOrneys. The people crowd the courts.
and each stage Of the hearing is marked
with degree or interest that is UP
paralleled. while civil suit involving
manv millions of money would be
passed by unheeded. Is it, therefore,
surprising that many young attorneys
first eSpOuse the role Of criminal
LAWYERS?
But to he a successful criminal law
year" remarked an elderly attorney,
during the week. you must possess all
the characteristics of a big bully. You
must be able to brOwbeat prosecuting
witnesses. YOU must he able to brighten
them so that they really do not know
what they say, and You must be up to
all kinds OF tricks-well, we'll not say
what" And the old gentleman shook
his head medltativeiy and smiled. he
had figured prominently in the ranks of
criminal lawyers in his day, but that
day is now long since gone.
There is large number of lawyers in
st. Paul. and they embrace some of the
eleveTest plea0eTs in the state. st.
Paul being a commercial city the Grim
inal LAWYERS are not prominent in num-
Der. as by far the greater proportion are
engaged in civil work. A noteworthy
fact about the attorneys practicing in
city is the great number of yOnng men.
and with them it is proposed to deal
more directly.
Hiler II. Horton possesses degrees
from the university of bachelor of law
and logic. If the apparent inconsistency
may be allowed. he is the oldest of the
Young LAWYERS at the bar in the city. Mr..
Horton graduated at Washington univer-
sitv. st. Louis. and from 1879. with the
exception of six months he was engaged
at Minneapolis, he has continued to
pratice at the st. Paul bar. There were
but thirty-five lawyers in the city when
he first came: now they may be num-
bered by the hundred. During this time
Mr.. Horton has been engaged in be-
tween 800 and 700 cases Of more or less
importance. The most important is
one pending at the present time. 1t is
the suit of Farley VS.. Hill and KittsOn
and the st. Paul. Minneapolis & Mani
tOba Railroad company. Mr.. Horton
is resident attorney in this suit for the
complainant. and the sum involved is
from S7.OO0.OOO to $4,000, 900. This is the
largest sum involved in a law suit that
has been brought into the supreme
court of the United States. The case
has been in the United States supreme
court, and is now pending the United
States circuit court for this circuit.
Bean q Cook. of Chicago, and c. G.. T.
Edmunds. of Vermont. are also engaged
in the suit, in which testimony has been
taken in Europe and Canada. Mr..
Horizons business is principally real
estate and corporation matters.
Marcus ID Mum is the bright young
attorney who located in st. Paul De-
cember. 1888. He did not begin to prac-
tice law until the following fall. though
he had graduated at Yale college in
1881. From the time of taking his de-
gree until 1888 Mr.. Mum was engaged
as tutor at his college. As an attorney,
he is clever and skiilful in the manage
ment of cases which he undertakes, and
early showed great promise at the bar
in his argument OF the suit, Ramsey
County VS.. Chicago, Milwaukee d st.
Paul Railroad Company. The law is
that railroad companies must pay 3 per
cent of their gross earnings over all
lines operated, but in this suit the Ques-
ton involved was whether the railroad
company should pay taxation upon land
not in use. 1t was decided that the land
was taxable. This was the first decis-
on the point by the supreme count of
the state Mr.. Mum is assistant county
attorney, and in that way his practice
includes both civil and criminal cases.
Thomas ID. O'Bren is one of the
ablest trial lawyers in the city. Quiet
and unassuming he may seem. but never
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