Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-07-06
SUPREME COURT PAYS TRIBUTE
TO DEPARTED JURTSTS.
MEMORIALS ARE PRESENTED
Late Justice Pinney Eulogized-HiS
Integrity, Industry, and lntelleStu-
aHty-Gen. Bryant, II, NJ. Lewis,
Gen. Winkler and Judge Wiuslow
Speak Memorial on Judge Mann.
Madison, july i.

! II, Nj. Lewis presented a memorial OF
the Dane county bar association upon
! the death of Associate Justice $ T.,
! Pinney, the paper being minutetN
! biographical in character and detailing
| The magnificent acknowledgment OF
Justice Piunry during his long and
! beneticent career Mr.. Lewis supple
mented the memorial With a paper eN-
pressing his personal esteem for the
deceased jurist and asserting the in
estmable benefits which accrued from
his acquaintance. Gen. +. T.. Bryant
| followed with a most eloquent tribute
to the late Judge, speaking from the
insight of personal friendship and long
and intimate relations with him. AS
soriate Justice J. Il. Winslow voiced
! the courts esteem and appreciation of
Judge Pinney, referring especially to
the legal erudition and absolute in
tegrity of the deceased Gen. f..
| c. Winkler of Milwaukee spoke of his
early acquaintance with Judge Pinney
and of the tremedous intellectual
| strength of the jurist at the age OF %
| NSdIS " lltll lllt " W. III 81 hlNNs fNN''l
ney A. l.. Cary of milwaukee, presented
memorial of the Milwaukee county
bar oulogzing the life work of Judge
j. T. Mann, for the industry and integ-
rity that had been its chief character
istc.
Gen. L. L. Bryant's tribute was as
! follows:
AS friend of the late Judge Pin
ney, remembering thirty years OF kind
ly intercourse, never married by an UNI
pleasant incident. | would fain grave
few lines of tribute upon that monu-
meut now erecting on the records OF
! this court, to commemorate our appre-
citation OF his talents and his worth,
There is little need over his grave
to invoke that charitable maxim so
often spread as mantle to cover the
| faults of the departed. Let it be said
| that for forty-tive years he stood as
member of the legal profession. Here
he lived as student, lawyer and Judge
yet never heard complaint from any
quarter that he had wronged any man
never heard it said even in the
undertone of disappointment or envy,
or of cynical gossip, that he had ever
| transcended or even strained any prln-
ciple of professional ethics. Further
than that, he pressed his clients cause
with "A zeal and energy sometimes in
convenient 10 the adversary, eager to
reach as early as might be the fruit
and end Of the law, never heard any
! thing like criticism of his professional
| conduct while a member of the bar
| His faults. if we may call them such,
grain or fiber of a character solid and
symmetrical as the oak.
"He was of a notable type of Amcri-
| can iurists. born with natural pred
lection for the law. He grew up amid
the privations of frontier life. With few
books, little chance for even common
school instruction, none of the ad-
vantages for higher education, he made
the most of scant opportunities; he
| even made the opportunities. His eager
mind reached out for and grasped the
| learning of the profession. His intel
lect was happily constituted for legal
study.
In his youth and middle age, very
strong in body and tough in brain,
capable of long protracted labor, his
studies ever pursued with the Zest THAI
makes pleasure of the eXertion he
STOOD at an early age amid body OF
! lawyers OF distinguished ability, a
noteworthy knight of the law, clad in
the shining armor OF It's learning,
welding deftly its weapon OF oifense Or
defense; and for more than a genera
zion he stood one of the acknowledged
leaders Of the bar in his state. N
some important respects he may be
said to be the superior OF all his con
temporaries The keenness and accu-
/ racy OF his observation and the
strength and tenacity Of his memory
were "A marvel lis retentive powers
OF mind might fifty be likened TO the
tent which in the oriental tale the
fairy gave TO the prince. Fold 1t and X
seemed toy for the hand OF a lady;
spread it and the armies OF empires
might repose beneath It's shade. All
the law embraced in his vast range OF
reading was treasured up in that well.
ordered storehouse OF memory, the
facts and principles accurately, often
the citati and the strong phrases Of
passages Of the opinion. And not only
these, but the little incidents Of life
the repartee, the witticisms and lighter
badnage with which lawyers season
| private intercourse, the little matters
OF daily life, once impressed upon his
mind by hasty and even casual obser-
walton, remained. not merely inartlcu.
late, but clearly stamped, ready for in
slant recall A mind thus endowed and
nus stored is suggestive Of those great
archives found lately In the buried
cities on the Euphra,es. where the
| events Of centuries are craven upon
tablets that endure for thousands o!
years, as fresh and plain as when the
cuneiform chisel graYed the character