Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-06-05
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John VI. Greer.
That Superior Court Record.

Mr.. EDITOR:
Some one, who alleges by his sigma
ture that he is an attorney, undertakes
to answer in circular letter, the
article in last weeks CITIZEN relating
| to Judge Greer's Superior Court record
/ He saws the article is the work of a
| novice who had no knowledge of his
subject and that it is studied effort to
distort the facts and conceal the truth.
Now. the article in question was a
simple statement of the number of cases
| tried in the whole State by the Superior
| Court since its organization, July, 1895;
and the PERCENTAGE of reversals was 27s
| in the whole State; and the number OF
cases decided by Judge Greer and which
were appealed to the Superior Court
! from this county were 33; the number
reversed was II; and the percentage Of
| Greer's reyersals was 514; and to prove
that the writer did not desire to distort
! the facts and that ne has full knowledge
of his subject, list of all the cases.
| with reference to book and page where
they could be found, was given. There
was no untrue statemant in the article
and Mr.. Attorney well knows that and
| he does not dare TO point out any par
ticular statement as unture, he tries.
however, to call attention away from
the facts by talking about the whole
! number of cases tried i'll this county by
Judge Greer and figuring the percent
age of reversals upon that (after the
manner of Coins Financial School
Why does not Mr.. Attorney tell us how
many cases not appealed should have
been, and were not, simply because the
amount involved would not justify the
1<Na - nxy
if he has knowledge of his subject and
has no desire to distort the facts and
conceal the truth, give Us the complete
Supreme Court record of his friend
Greer instead of garbled extract frOm
it? Why does he start with 1896. un-
less he desires to conceal the truth of
the record from 1898 to 1896; and why
does he make the unture statement that
Greer has only been reversed in one
case since 1896, unless he desires TO dis
tort the facts?
The article Mr.. Attorney pretends to
criticise is a true and complete state
ment taken from the Is volumes of the
Superior Court Reports. In order to GET
similar true and complete record of
the Supreme Court cases, a search would
have to be made through some 81 vol
umes 1t was too much trouble and
nothing at all was said about it Mr..
Attorney, however, raises the question
himself about the Supreme Court record
of Judge Greer and both couceals the
truth and distorts the facts. The whole
record of Judge Greer's past 8 years in
both the Superior and the Supreme
Court would average very little. if any,
better than his Superior Court record.
The Reports show that in the whole
State there were 1916 cases appealed to,
and passed upon by the Superior Court.
There being ITO Lower Court Judges in
the State This shows an average per
Judge of ia cases. Judge Greers rec
ord shows 80 cases already appealed and
passed upon or nearly double the aver
age of all the other Lower Court Judges
in the State, and an examination Of the
Reports from the Superior Court will
show that in the last few years Judge
Greer's record in the matter of reversals
is getting worse instead of better. show
ing that he is not improving by expert
ence. Mr. Attorney and his friend
Greer were hard hit by the facts set
forth and hence had to hide behind some
shadow to keep up appearances.
T. H E. RECORDS.