The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-18
The Overland MONTHLY.

The overland MONTHLY.
The Overland Monthly for November
is crowded with articles of great prac-
teal value to those interested in the
Pacific Coast States and Territories
The leading paper is upon the
Euoalypts, their growth, their economic
valHe, and the varieties planted in
California. written by Mr.. George Nc
GllllVray, gentleman who is al
authority on the subject. In the same
practical line is an article by Charles F.
LoWrey on Grazing Lands, and one by
Leon Noel upon one of the most
famous ranches In America, under the
title The Largest Estate in the
World" the great Maxwell Grant. He
traces the history of this princely do
main, and describes Life. on the Cattle
Ranges" and explorations in the noun
taIns OF New Mexico with vivid and
realistic force. It is by papers of this
sort that each issue of Overland aids
the growth of the west.
The Overland Monthly, San Francisco
Cal.
The STATE REPORTS, containing the
cases OF generul value and authority
decided in the courts of last resort OF
the several States. By A. c. Freeman
Vol. H., San Francisco: Bancroft
Whitney Company.
This Is the second volume of the
series, the first of which was noticed in
The HERALD some weeks ago. This
work is to take the place of the Ameri-
can decisions and American Reports
and is under the MANAGEMENT and edi-
torisl care which made them so useful
and popular among lawyers. That the
State Reports will serve their purpose is
proven by the cordial and compli-
mentary reception extended to the first
volume by the bar and the press. An
excellent idea OF the scope and charac.
ter OF the Decisions may be gained by
the perusal of an extract from the
review OF the California Law Librariyn
The amount of business in our 81 =
preme courts naturally and continually
II creases the number of cases. and the
employment of stenographerg and
type-writers in the higher courts has
led to verb6sity in the decisions, which
tendency may be traced back to the
briefs OF counsel, which are also, in the
larger offices, dictated. The courts OF
tne Oldest and most conservative States
seem not to have yielded as yet to this
influence; but we look in vain IN thei,
volumes for cases of peculiar interes
and Importance beyond the limits Of
their own borders. We may scarcely
| hope, and it may not be desirable, TO,
local purposes, to decrease the humble
OF reported cases; but: for: general use
the ne cessisity of selection become
more and more apparent No one il
practice can keep up with the food o
reports and reporters; no one out o
practice would wish to do so. The au
thor who desires to exhaust the ma
terial for his work in a particula
branch must consider all cases on tina
topic; but the brief-maker vii
hope to find somewhere the re
suit of such labor ready for his use
In making his selections the editor ha
evidently borne in mind two facts
that this series is supplemental to it
two predecessors, and that it is also
distinct and will become to large de
gree complete in itself. There is her
no argument of counsel, and we see q
reason why there should be any; a
well report the address to the jury a
the argument pro and con before tn
court. If, In the opinion, the court ha
given a full review of the facts in evi
dence and of the authorities therein
| followed or relied upon, little more i
needed than a syllabus which state
fully and clearly what the decision was
If the facts are not fully stated in tn
opinion, something more than
syllabus is requisite, namely, a state
ment of the case. In this. the natur
of the action, the facts upon which j
was brought, and the point
made by counsel in argument
may all be stated In few lines. Refer
ence to cases which are not relied upo
asIauthority by the court have no plac
here-they belong in the notes, whic
are so abundant and elaborate in thi
series. This element, the citation Q
cases, is properly eliminated from tn
reporting labor, and relegated to III
annotator; and the brief-maker will fin
in the series an enormous lumber G
notes which might be cut out and file
as arguments. AS to the notes, on
would have to reproduce them to CIV
any notion of their value. The briefes
kind of a topical index to them occu
pies eight pages of the volume; and a
We have already suggested, one who
on the right side of his case might direc
his type writer TO copy one of thes
notes as his brief"
The present volume reports case
from Georgia. Illinois, Indiana, lows
South Carolina, New York, Texa!
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Californi
and Rhode Island. The Reports wi
issued every two months, and should fin
a place on the shelves of all pracsicin
attornt