Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-11
ACTION BY LOCAL COURTS
ADJORRN IN RESPECT TO MEM
oYR OF DECEASED JURIsT.
Announcements in Appellate and
Other ribunals-Chair to Be
DTaped in Mourning.

The Court Of Appeals of the District of
| Columbia assembled at 1928 o'clock this
morning for a brief session. Mr.. Chief
Justice Shepard presided and Justice Bar
nard of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia sat as a member in the alb
sence of Mr.. Justice Robb. No business
was transacted except the formal notice
TO the court of the death of Mr.. Justice
McComas. made by Mr.. William F. Mat
tingly. president of the Bar Association.
to which Mr. Chief Justice Shepard feel
ingly responded, ard directed that the
court stand adjourned until next We'd
nesday morning as a mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased.
Mr.. Henry W. Hodges. clerk of the
court will have the chair occupied by
Mr.. Justice McComas on the bench OF
the Court of Appeals draped in mourning.
| The flag on the courthouse IS flying at
half-mast.
The courtroom was filled with mem
bers of the bar when Mr.. Mattingly an
nounced the death of Mr.. Justice Nc
Comas.
IF the court please" he said. 1T is
with sorrow that ] have to announce the
death of Associate Justice McComas of
this court. who died about o'clock yes
terday morning. The funeral [ am adj
morrow, the train leaving the Baltimore
and Ohio station at O'Clock am. In or
der that members of the court and the
bar may be able to attend, | have to re-
quest that the court adj ourn out of re-
spect to the memory of Mr.. Justice Nc
Conas until Wednesday morning next.
gentlemen of the bar" the chief JUS
tice announced, the court appreciates the
feeling of the bar in this matter. 1t is
with the deepest sorrow that we learn OF
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tention of the members of the court to at
tend the funeral. We will make the order
and the court will stand adjourned out Of
respect to the memory of Mr.. Justice Nc
Comas until Wednesday morning at 10
o Clock
In District Supreme Court.
Other members of the bar gave similar
formal notice of the death of Justice Nc
Comas in each of the branches of the Dis
trict Supreme Court, and the several
judges of that tribunal in appropriate
terms expressed regret at the news and
ordered court adjourned until Wednesday.
In Circuit Court No. . Mr.. Henry T..
Davis addressing Justice Anderson con-
corning the death of Mr.. Justice Nc
Conas. said: May it please your honor.
in behalf of my brethren of the bar. l
make formal announcement of the sad
fact. which is already in the knowledge
residence in this city, Louis Emory Nc
Comas. associate justice of the Court of
Appeals Of this District, departed this
life.
1T was just quarter of d century ago
that he entered upon the public career
IN Whic,, he so distinguished himself and
rendered such valuable service to his
country.
las a representative i'll Congress he
served his native state for eight years
and after an interval of a year. was called
to the bench of this court. where. at the
close of a service of seven years dura-
ton he was called from this very room,
while discharging his duties as Il judge.
to substitute for the ernline the toga of
a senator After a service of six years in
that capacity he was again called upon
to lay aside the tosa to resume the
ermine of which death has just stripped
him.
."rho qualities and the character that
have made such d career possible are not
now to be dwelt upon They Will be the
subject OF appropriate notice, in accord
ance with our very worthy and estimable
custom at a later date Nor is it proper
thai I should now even touch upon the
qua lities that enabled him to make and
to hold friends, and | should hesitate TO
trust myself To do so in the freshness OF
the emotions under which | speak look
ing back as I do upon that whole quarter
of d century of personal friendship with
the man. unaffected by either breach or
disappointment.
1T is proper that | should now only
make this announcement, and move the
court in respect to the memory of the
departed, that ii do now adjourn.
Reply by Justice Anderson.
''The circumstances under which the
court convenes this morning are peculiar
" sad" Justice Anderson replied Fri
day last Justice McComas was sitting in
the Court of Appeals attending to his
usual duties with his usual fidelity, full
of hope that he would speedily regain
his health The last work he did Sat
urday night was to complete an opinion
! that he wrote. He arose from his bed
| Yesterday morning with nothing in his
| then condition to suggest that that day