The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-01-16
RESOLUTION ON THE DEATH OF
JUDGE ROBERT FALLIGANT
PASSED YESTERDAY IN THE
COURT ROOM.
JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS ALSO
PAY A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE
TO THE DECEASED JUDGE-TRI-
Butte GIVEN IN FULL.

in the superior court room yesterday
afternoon.
To the Hon. Joseph w. Bennett,
Judge Superior Court,
Brunswick Judicial Circuit.
The undersigned, the committee of
the Bar of Brunswick, appointed by
Your Honor to recommend suitable
action in honor Of the memory of our
deceased brother, Judge Robert Falli-
giant, respectfully report the following
II omorial:
Our brother, an officer of this court
i'll the years gone by, a practitioner
OF this circuit, and this court, and in
the last years of mis- life wearing the
robes of judicial office, purely and
worthily, wronging no man, yielding
to every man in the hight forum of
public justice according to his best
judgment, his dues, commanding by
his lofty ideas of right and justice
deepest reverence and respect for the
judiciary, has fallen asleep. In tnat
final court he must receive a merciful
judgment, for he is to be judged by
the judgments he gave. 1t was a
pleasure to practice law in the courts
presided over by him. While order
ever obtained, yet it was ever a love
feast. There was no military disci-
pline in his court 1t had its place
| iii war and he was there and knew
| it. There was no rebuking, no order
ing, no debating to his bar They
were treated as equals. He made his
bar what the old judges made the bar,
and what it ever should be, the Off
GERS, the parts, the equals of the
court the only way to make a bar
useful and good, and high and great.
One of the chief reasons which has
made the Savannah bar, over which
he ard the like of him have presided
SO long, second to none in ethics, and
in practice, and in point of legal at
tainment The lawyer who wearied
him with an oft read decision or a
repeated argument, realized the fact
only when the bar would assemble
ar the judges room that night, when
the judge would tell fitting anec-
dote at his expense. Your committee
enjoyed the very great pleasure Of
sometimes practicing law in his cir
cult. and the judgment of disappro-
val, whether upon your pet PROPOSE
ton, or hasty objection, was said so
kindly and in sucn manner as that
you felt there was at least merit in
it, and the crowd was never admon-
ished that there was none, but rather
the impression be created that the
court itself was in doubt. Everybody
who knew Judge Falligant and whose
love was worthy, learned to love him
When the Rev. Sam Jones went to
Savannah and made war on courts and
jurors anu OlICSlSt uC ]diIS """S -
love with Judge Falligant, and since
his death has paid noble and beauti-
full tribute to his memory.
The tired body and the weary brain
which clung to the active performance
of the duties of mis- office, alas, too
long, with a sense of duty not less
strong than that which gave him
amid the storm of shot and shell at
Marye's Heights, Cold Harbor imper-
ishable renown, are at rest.
The forgetfulness of self, the devo-
ton to others which on those Marye's
Heights, where his battery was deal
ing out death, led him to stop its
firing, and facing almost certain
death, rush between the lines and
bear the wounded body of an enemy
to a place of safety, deed SO brave,
SO generous, that the hell Of war was
hushed in impulsive reverence for a
great act grandly done, was charac-
teristic of his life.
An orator of magnetic quality in
whatever form he exercised it. master
of humor and pathos, too gentle of
heart to knowingly wound an oppon-
ent, he was in all his career, that