The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-12
NEW OFFICERS CHOSEN
Thanks of Convention Extended Pres
Busbee and Sec. Biggs.
NEXT PLACE OF MEETING NOT SELECTED
Resolution is Passed by the Association Favor.
ing the Wearing of Robes by the
Justice Of the Supreme
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Court.

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Asheville, N. c., July 1.-THE State
Bar Association held it's final session
this morning. The closing business was
the election of officers. Hon. Charles
Price, of Salisbury, was made the new
president and J. Crawford Biggs re-
elected secretary and treasurer. The
executive committee are: Col. Jno. w.
Hinsdale and Zeb. Vance Walser. Vice
Presidents were chosen as follows: First
district, l.. l.. Smith, Gatesville; Second
district. b. B. Winborne, Murfreesboro;
Third district, o. H. Guion, New Bern
Fourth district, Jacob Battle, Rocky
Mount; Fifth district, N. j. Rouse Kin
ston; Sixth district T. B. Womack, Raj
eigh; Seventh district, Stephen McIn-
tyre, Lumberton; Eighth district, r. H.
Hayes, Pittsboro; Ninth district, w. II.
Bynum, Jr., Greensboro; Tenth district,
E. l.. Gather, Mocksville; Eleventh dis
trict, ]. c.. Buxton, Winston; Twelfth
district, r. L. Ryburn, Shelby; Thir-
teenth district, w. c. Newland, Lenoir:
Fourteenth district, c. F. Toms, Hender-
sonyille; Fifteenth district, J. Earl
Merrimon, Asheville; Sixteenth district,
E. B. Novel; Murphy.
Resolutions of thanks were extended
to the members of the Asheville bar, E.
H. McKissick and Charles McNamee,
for courtesies shown by them to the con-
vention. A resolution was also passed
thanking President Busbee and Secre-
tary-Treasurer Biggs for efficient ser
vices during the past year Thos. A.
Jones in behalf of the Asheville Bar As
sociation thanked the convention for Sc
lecting Asheville as their meeting place
this year and said that the latch key
was always out, and that he hoped the
convention would return to Asheville
another year.
The place of meeting is in the hands
of the executive committee and will be
decided later. The new president en-
tered the hall amid applauses, thanked
the convention for the honor conferred
upon him and said: Outside of party
affiliation / appreciate this honor more
than l would the Chief Justceship."
The only other business besides cleo
ton of officers was a resolution presented
by the executive committee favoring
Supreme Court Justices wearing robes
This was adopted. The attendance at the
present session has even been larger than
it was when the convention met here in
1900 The association is in a prosperous
condition, more so than it has ever been
Every indication points to success
full years work. The social features of
the association closed this evening in a
smoker, given at Battery Park Hotel
At yesterdays session several amend
ments to the constitution and bylaws
were considered. One amendment was
adopted providing that the president
shall on the first day of each session APP
point a committee OF five members
whose duty it shall be to recommend
the ice-president and executive board
for the succeeding term. The secretary
and treasurer will be chosen by the
body as a whole. There is to be nothing
binding in the committee recommended
tions, but it is expected that they will
invariably be concurred in.
The Committee on Legal Legislation
and Law Reform gave as reasons for
recommending an amendment to the law
relatiD" to the deceased wife's proper
ty that under our laws there is no JUS
tice in making the right of the husband
to an interest in his wife's real estate
dependent upon the question as to
whether there be issue of the marriage
born alive. The husbands share in his
Wife's personal estate is not made de-
pendent upon the happening of any such
event and there is no more reason for
making it condition of his estate in her
real property than in her personal prop
erty
Experience has shown the real estate
of the wife under the operation of the
law oftimes descend to remote relatives
of the wife to the entire exclusion of the
husband although in many instances the
land was the gift of the husband to the
wife, or was in whole or in part the
product of his labor and earnings.
AS to the need of codification of the
statute laws of the State it was pointed
out that since the report made on this
subject through Col. Hinsdale in 1900
Legislature has still further changed our
statutes and four additional volumes of
our Supreme Court Reports contain ju-
dicial constructions thereon which
should be placed within easy reach OF all
the people. In more than one instance
General Assemblies which failed to give
US new Code demonstrated its neces-