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NOTES or Legal Events.

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prominent and influential citizen In the COM
munity where he lived. Mr.. stockton was
eight years older than Mr.. Bacon. He was
born In 1929. graduated at Princeton In lSf3.
was admitted TO the bar In lS47, and had been
Minister to Rome twice Senator OF the United
States and four times Attorney General OF New
Jersey. Senator stockton was a Democrat OF
the old school and an earnest advocate oil q
strict construction OF tho Constitution. Theo.
dore Bacon was a member Of 1.-THE celebrated class
OF 1853 at Yale College. His only public ser.
vics was In the Civil War. asa Captain In the
Seventh Connecticut Regiment OF which Gen.
Alfred II. Terry. also a lawyer. was originally
the commander. After participating In many
battles he returned TO Rochester at the end OF
the rebellion and took up the practice Of the
law again with mark cd success. He was a man
OF exceptional culture and scholarship. with o
tendency TO sarcasm which compelled respect.
but sometimes insured apprehension on the
part OF mis- opponents. One o! the Rochester
papers, In expressing regret that 1t could not
publish Mr.. Bacon's portrait. states that he
would never consent to have his photograph
taken.
The American Armoury and Blue Book 10
an English publication containing the names
OF Americans OF British origin who are en-
titled to use armorial bearings by reason OF
direct descent from IAN Ambiguous ancestor"
and also the names OF the present represents.
atives OF families descended from the early set
tiers in America and ofthose who held high 20.
sltions Ia the State. either before or after the
Revolution-such as Presidents. Vice Pres.
idents. Chief Justices. officers OF the Army and
Navy, and the like. In the first pamphlet section
OF this work. which consists OF lOi pages aud
contains many armorial figures. we ind the
names OF forty lawyers. The following entry
under the lame OF Irving @. Vann OF Syracuse.
n. Y. Is an example OF the way In which the
book is made up: Born at Ulysses. Tompkins
Co.. n. Y. 3rd Jan. 1912: Mayor OF the CITY
OF Syracuse. N. y, Justice OF the Supreme
Court. n. Y. s.. and now Judge OF the Court OF
Appeals In same State: graduated D. A. Yale
University. 1858: Albany Law School. LII. b..
1866: NJ. A. Yale. 1871: L.. D.. Hamilton.
1882 Ill. D., Syracuse University. 1897 Ii" d..
Yale, 1898: married 18th October, 1870. Flor.
ence, daughter Of Henry Augustus Dillaye. OF
Syracuse" We And no mention OF any other
New York Judge. bat the family record Is
given In the cases OF Richard Thomas Walker
Duke. Judge OF the Hustings Court OF Char.
lottesylIle. Va; Henry Stockbridge. Associate
Julk6 Ol tHb puiitLlo bVhNh -
City; Benjamin Drake Magruder, Chief Justice
OF the Supreme Cour. o. Illinois since 1885,
and William Wagner Porter, Judge OF the
Superior Court in Pennsylvania The biogfa.
phies are accurate. as they DOUBTLESS proceed
FROM the parties themselves. and most OF them
are modest.
One OF the bills before Congress to prevent
the desecra ton OF the American hag.' by
rlacing advertisement upon 1t, or using II In
any manner for advertising PURPOSES. also
: torbids any similar use OF the arms OF the
United States. In England there Is a statute
! IMPOSING a fne not exceeding the equivalent
o, a hundred dollars upon any person who
without the authority OF the Queen. or some
| member OF the royal family or a govern
| mental department. assumes or uses the royal
arms in connection with any business In such
! a manner as to lead people to believe that he
l. carrying on such business with royal or gov
| erpmental sanction. The use OF the royal arms
by tradesmen who have the royal household
| for customers Is a privilege OF some value
which the Jaw thus protects, On the 18th inst.
in the county Of London Sessions a case came
! up for review where the appellant had been
fnel ten guineas for using bill heads with the
royal arms uron them, deIcribing himself as
ment. The Court held that this conveyed the
false notion that he was carrying on his coai
business under royal authority and atnrined
the conviction.
Mr.. Marcus T. Hun. the Supreme Court Re-
porter OF this State. generally does his work 50
well tina we are surprised to notice a slip In
his report OF Beecher against the Long Island
Railroad Company in the pamphlet number OF
,be Combined Official Series OF Law Reports
for Jan. sc, 1900. The statement Of the
facts OF the case covers two pages. This Is
| always assumed to be the work Of the Exporter.
unless It is expressly stated TO be the work OF
the Judge whose opinion follows. There 10 no
such intimation here. But q statement OF the
case coming from the reporter and not from
the Court should be confined TO an account OF
what occurred upon the trial. In the Beecher
case, however. we find Mr.. Hun saying that
there was evidence to 60 to the Jury uron tho
question OF the defendants negligence has not
been seriously questioned and ned not be con.
sidered" It would be appropriate Tor Chiet
saw n. but in q statement OF the facts any
declaration by the reporter, as to what ought
10 be considered Is out OF place.
The Supreme Court OF the United States has
overruIed it's own decision in the case OF the
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad Com
many against Ross tll2 United States Reports.
377l. where II was held that a locomotive en-
eineer could recover damages against the cor.
n~oration for injuries resulting from the negli-
eance Of the conductor OF the train. Where an
injury Is caused TO one servant by the careless
ness OF a fellow servant, the law does not charge
the master with liability unless ha has been
negligent In the selection or retention OF a fel.
low servant who Is incompetent But In the
Ross case, the Supreme Court was Of
the opinlon that the conductor and locomo'
live engineer Of the freight train upon
which the accident occurred were not
fellow servants In such a sense as &c
free the railroad company from response
bjlIty under this rule. Now. however, q major
ity OF the Judges think they went too lar in
holding that the conductor Of a freight train
was a representative OF the railroad COMPANY
and not o fellow servant OF the engineer. Thi:
thew declare In the case OF tho New England
Railroad Company against Conroy. which wa,
decided on the 4th OF December last ana Is re-
ported IN the pamphlet number OF the Unitet
States Reports which reached us on Friday
Nv The way. Is this pamphlet lated D.crm.
her /. 1891, when II contains decisions which
were not handed down until the llth OF tina
month";
bill has bean introduced In Congress au
thorizin g each District Judge Of the United
g.ao annaint an Official stenopraphnr m