The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
MISCELLANY
Wit In Law Reports.

At the meeting of the CT orgia Bar
Association at Atlanta last week, one
of the most entertaining features was q
paper by Mr.. A. Fl. Russell of Angus.
to on the "Wit and Wisdom of Judge
Bleckley in the Georgia Reports" Mr..
Russel's paper consisted of extracts
from the decisions of Judge Bleckley,
in which judicial learning and humor.
Gus and philosophical remarks are COM
bned in fashion somewhat unusual
on the bench.
In one case, that of the Central
Railroad We. Roberts, he followed
the example of Mr.. Wegg and
dropped into poetry, delivering his die.
tum as follows:
The groom and bride each come within
The circle of each others kin,
But kin and kin are still no more
Related then they were before.
In the case of Warren Va. Pristell be
INDUCED in the philosophic reflection
that sit is always probable that some
thing improbable will happen" and in
Hawks vs.. Hawks was not above the
pun that "there are so many Hawks in
the facts of this case that the air is a
little darkened."
III lIuhtub duu OIu nC
ed rebuke that is needed in other
States:
"In the ORTHODOXY of litigation this
case is tomtit furnished with garb
of feathers ample enough for turk, y.
Measured by the verdict, its tiny body
has only the bulk of S25, but it struts
with display of record expanded into
eighty three pages of manuscript. 1t
seems to us that more contracted
plumage might serve for a small bird,
but perhaps we are mistaken. In
every forensic season we have con-
sideration block of such cases, to be
stripped and dissected for the cabinets
of jurisprudence. We epdeavor to
pick out overAedged poultry with ju-
dicial assiduity and patience"
Men who think that husbands have
some rights which wives are bound to
respect will applaud the following OBJ
servation from Braswell We. Suber:
I'm taking a wife man does not put
himself under an overseer. He is not
subordinate in his own family, but
the head of it. A subjugated
husband is a less pleasing and less en-
ergetic member of society than one
who keeps his true place, yet knows
how to temper authority with affec-
ton.
There is in the following extract
from his opinion in Mcknight vs.. An
derson an amusing exposition of the
legal rights of the wife as well as her
domestic privileges in the matter of
selfsupport.
"The legal unity of husband and wife
has, in Georgia, for the most purposes
been dissolved and legal quality es-
tablished. A wife is a wife, not hus-
band, as she was formerly. Legisla-
tive chemistry has analysed the con-
jugal unit, and it is no longer treated
as an element, but as compound. A
husband can make gift 10 bis wife,
although she lives in the house with
him, and attends to her home duties, as
easily as he can make present to his
neighbours wife. This puts her on an
equality with other ladies and looks
ike progress. Under the new order of
things, when he induces her to enter
into the business of keeping boarders
and promises to let her have all the
proceeds, he is allowed to keep his
promise if she keeps the boarders. 1t
would seem that the law ought to toler-
ate him in being faithful to his word in
such a matter, even though he has
pledged it only to his wife, and we
think it does"