The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-10

Landing, now Kansas City, Mo, from
there 1 drove to Lawrence, Leaven-
worth, Topeka and surrounding cit
les 90 in search of a place to engage
in the noble art of looking wise and
preaching the modern doctrine of law
as she should be practiced. 1 put my
shingle out in Topeka, then very
small city with but few people in it,
as disciple of Blackstone, and with
dictionary and the meager statutes
of Kansas territory as guides, await
ed patiently for Developments L
waited just one year before any one
derful talents to assist him into or out
of trouble; then, one shabbily dressed,
lazy. lank customer, more brave than
his fellows boldly entered my sanctum
neither knowing or apparently caring
who 1 was or what my ability as
lawyer was. He made known hiS
wants and promptly paid me ten soc
pieces which was duly logged home
and deposited, not given to my wife
From that on came business, the war
Legs. Elected district attorney, APP
pointed to several positions, among
them U. S. deputy district attorney
but the chief business has been pros
ecuting and defending civil and GRIM
inal cases in the various courts Three
times 1 could have been the judge of
the court, twice in Kansas and once in
Texas. 1 would not be judge, because
hung or to life confinement. Hard
and easy times I have met in the
practice of the law. 1t is a life of
hard work and small pay, work of
drudgery and a thankless work. In
the hundreds of cases 1 have tried for
crime, but two have performed their
promises. In the hundreds of civil
cases have tried, l have more than
$50, 600 owing me barred by the stat
ute of limitations. 1t is an honorable
hut 10 hnnnr n
it, than compensation, except that
you have kept the faith and obliga-
tions you took when you proudly re
.ceived your right to claim the law
your profession.
"a H. CASE.
NOV. Is. 1902
MI. Case as Lawyer.
when Mr.. Case addressed the court
he had its attention. 1t was a weighty
and troublesome thing to defend
clearest of minds. a perfect memory.
and up to the very hour of his last
sickness had the pride of a lawyer
in standing on the advance line. The
last legal business which he transacted
was here in his own homo chamber
at a time when burdened by the Sc
Verest pain, his life sapped and he
going, when he wrote the motion to
enforce in the district court the man
date of the supreme court in a case
which he had but a very short time
before won.
%Mr. Case helped every young be-
ginner who ever sought his assistance,
and many of these young lawyers
stand around his coffin at this hour
middleaged men, with gray in their
own hair, holding his memory in sweet
recollection for such kindly acts. He
was the elder brother of US all. He
had a heart that permitted others to
sway him; and there is but one man
I ever knew of whom was sure had
more foibles and frailties than he; and
nigh all of his rose to the dignity of
virtues. He could be speculated upon
by the designing person.
kindly and gentle. with a poise
that no human tumult or emergency
could destroy.
''It is to be regretted he did not
commence the law earlier in life and
have the advantage of its training
schools. He would have ranked with
the greatest. His younger days were
before lax courts, in the early settle
ment or out on the frontier. Disci-