Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-28
Little Hobbies of the Court.


Judges. like other men. have their own
peculiar hobbies. Judge Day doesn't drink
smoke or chew but he will discuss for
hours what the state ought to do to help
discharged penitentiary prisoners to get on
their feet in the way of getting them en-
ployment or having a fund in the hands of
some responsible person, to be used for
their benefit while they are seeking work
Judge Redick delights in a quiet smoke
while he cons over the law books in some
case under consideration. He was never
known to run away from a game of bill
lizards with any man living. He hasn't
much pride In his own prowess, but he can
average a button or two all day long.
Judge Estelle likes nothing better, out
side his home and romp with the children,
than a session ''at the post" with the
Grand Army of the Republic veterans he is
con amore; but he can also make himself
thoroughly at home among the antlered
tribe and at a Masonic social session.
Judge Kennedy is the Junior of the local
bench. Nature has endowed him with the
judicial temperament in high degree, also
with a premature aspect of experience and
solemnity that is not borne out by his
enjoyment of the humorous as it crops
out in the cases he hears. with his
on serious-looking face, and a demeanor
thoroughly self-contained, Judge Ken
nedy's delight is in discovering to those
he converses with that he is anything but
solemn. He takes the law seriously, but
demands the benefit of all the trimmings
that relieve it's severe architecture. 1t
may be said Of him that he is a growing
Judge and he is expected to develop more
along his own favorite lines OF study when
no takes an equity docket next month
The Junior judge is a prohibitive favorite
with the law classes he lectures to at
Creighton Law college.
Judge Sutton. aside from his duties on
the bench, is deeply interested in forestry.
He is at present high chief ranger of Ne
braska for the Independent Order of For
esters. He has legislative experience as
well as executive experience in the fra
ternal line, and impresses the daily OBJ
server as a man of perfect mental poise
and balance. He has fine law library,
and he does not have It for ornament
alone. He is a daily deliver in its wealth
of abstract scholarship and its mine of
law history, finished cases and legal pre-
cedent.
Judge Troup, when wearied with argu-
ment and contention In the court, finds
relaxation and mental rest in the now
famous scavenger tax law. To him has
fallen all the judicial work in this county
for the administration of the law From
the start 1t has been found full of puzzing
possibilities, on the face Of the statute
Judge Troup has in turn wrestled with all
of the complications as they have arisen.
Decision after decision has been rendered
on mooted points, and In every instance
the supreme court has sustained the find
ing OF the local court. Judge Troup views
with a good deal of pardonable satsfac-
ton the record of the operation of the
scavenger tax law in its successful running
of the legal gauntlet.
Judge Sears is the greatest traveller on
the district bench His particular hobby
is his family of five children-Mabel Ed
ward, Flora. Sigsbee and Charles-left
motherless three years ago. His home is
at Tekamah and he goes back and forth
about every day in the year, never failing
unless to go is absolutely impossible. He
is fixture at Tekamah. and If he did not
appear regularly as the train leaves or
arrives his absence would be subject for
public discussion. He has not felt entirely
in his element handling an equity docket.
The clash OF legal combat is welcome to
Judge Sears at all times, and hence he
anticipates with pleasure his transfer to a