Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-06

reputation throughout the North
west for scholarship, industry ant
honesty, AMI many good stories ar
told OF his exploits at the bar. 4
writer n the Chicago Herald gives thu
following pen picture Of the new Chic
Justice:
"In manner Mr.. Fuller is quick ant
vivacious, with an earnest and i'm
pressive address. Absorbed in con
| versation he frequently becomes ex
cited and unconsciously addresses hi.
single auditor as il he were the "ful
BENCH" His laugh is ready, merry
and contagious, and his appreciation
Of humor is most keen. As public
speaker he is clear, logical and inter
esting, and is largely in demand by
the Democracy as political speaker
during campaigns. Although he often
yields to these demand from a sense
Of duty to his party, it is not without
a sense of being wronged that he
gives up the pleasant evening at
home.
Mr.. Fuller is warm-hearted and
sympathetic man, who in all his
actions aims at the highest standard,
and is content with nothing less. He
possesses that rare kind of memory
which retains the images of old friends
and acquaintances long after the lapse
of time would have affaced them from
ordinary minds. He still receives oc
casionai calls from his old friends
from egypt" and Central illinois,
| xrh hA Il f,. Ia 4 II.
away back lin the Sixties" and it
rarely happens that he fails to call by
name at once the gray-haired man
whom he knew quarter of century
ago. He retains lively interest in
his alma mater, "Old Bo wdoin," and
to this day is a subscriber for the col
lege paper. His college fraternity also
is still an object of interest to him.
In his home Mr.. Fuller is at his
happiest. There in his library, stocked
with the choicest books of the stand
ard writer's, "bound for wear" or in
his comfortable parlor, surrounded by
his children, he joins in their talk and
sympathizes with their various inter
ests and amusements, or, unmindful
and oblivious Of them, he calmly reads
or writes or follows out the thread of
the legal argument which he has in
preparation. Once within the walls
Of his pleasant home, in dressing-gown
and slippers, it is next to impossible
to entice him from it in the evening,
can scarcely be induced to regard any
social duty as Of sufficient importance
to overcome his preference for home.
The late Loren Grant Pratt, who
will be remembered as one of the
acutest lawyers that ever practiced at
the Chicago bar, once made the re-
mark that Mr.. Fuller was the hardest
man to beat he ever came in contact
with. Said he: "I've thought had
a sure thing on him several times, but
he keeps starting something new on
me, and the chances are he downs
me at last"
In recent important case in which
Mr.. Fuller was retained as counsel
after the litigation had been grinding
along for year or two, and great
mass Of files and testimony had been
produced, one OF his associates sug-
gested to him that they should advo-
cate setting the case for a hearing
some three months ahead, so as to
enable Mr.. Fuller to familiarize him
self with it. Mr.. Fuller replied that
ten days or two weeks would be ample
time. But" objected the associate,
"do you think you can 60 to the bot
tom Of it in so short a timer" "My
friend" was Mr.. Fuller's reply, "I in |
tend to 20 to the top of this case."
And he did, as witness the recent VIC
tory Of the city in the lake-fron case
MIR. Fuller's cases appear in more
than one hundred of the Illinois Re
ports, and in half that number of the
United States Supreme Court Reports. |
He has been largely instrumental in
shaping the policy of the Supreme
Court of this State, and from volume
10 down to the current volume many
of his cases are leading cases" in |
Illinois. His latest case in the Su- |
preme Court of the United States was
that of the Pittsburg, Chicago and
st. Louis Railway Company ami
other railroads vs.. The Keokuk and
Hamilton Bridge Company, in which
Mr.. Fuller, with Lyman Trumbull, |
represented the bridge company, and
we're opposed by George Hoadley as
counsel for the railroads. The court
has not yet rendered its decision.
In his practice in the Supreme
Court Of the United States, Mr.. Fuller
has repeatedly come in contac-, both
as colleague and as an opponent,
with E,lmunds, Thurman, Hoadly,
Ingersoll and other admittedly grea,
lawyers. AMI has never tailed to hold
his own against the greatest OF them.
He is familiar with the decisions OF
that court and we'll informed on the
history of our country, and especially
on all constitutional questions. Not
content with the vast amount of read
ing and writing which Of necessity
results from the active practice Of
his profession, Mr.. Fuller does
an immense amount of mis-
cellaneous reading and con-
siderable writing by way Of
recreation. He is an omnivorous
reader, resembles Macaulay in his
liking for good novel, as well as in
the swiftness with which he grasps
the contents of book and the tena-
city with which his memory clings to
it. His writings, in literary way, Of
late years have been confined princi-
pally to reviews of books, a number of
which have appeared in the Dial.
The longest literary work he has at
tempted during the last ten years was
his eulogy of memorial of the late
Judge Breese, which was read before
the Legislature, and is model in it's
lines.
PROTECTION.