Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-21
in MEMORY OF
JUDGE HAWLEY
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE
NYE COUNTY BAR ASSO-
CITATION.

the District Court, Judge ]. P. {
O'Brien on the bench, the following {
resolutions in memory of the late ;
Judge Thomas P. Hawley were offer
ed by Attorney H. R. Cooke, in behalf
of the committee of the Nye County
Bar Association, which drafted the
same
ITO the Nye County Bar Associa-
ton:
We, the undersigned, your COM
mittee appointed to prepare and pre-
sent resolutions expressive of the
sentiments of this bar association
upon the life, services, and character
of Judge Thomas P. Hawley, beg
leave to submit the following:
| Judge Hawley, although not q |
resident of Nye county, by his long |
residence in the State, his practising |
at the bar, and being judge of the |
State Supreme Court, and later of
the United States Circuit Court for
Nevada, had become we'll and init
mately known to all his professional
brethren throughout the. State, and
his recent death, coming though it
did in the evening of a life filled with
deeds of duty nobly done, has moved
us like the loss of one of our own
members to give expression to our
keen appreciation of his exception
ally high personal and professional
: character, and of the severe loss
which the community, the bar, bench
and State alike have sustained there
by.
Judge Hawley, as a man, was alb
solutely and unqualifiedly honest,
! and, at all times, courteous, courag-
eous and just; as citizen, he stood
> for all that was highest, purest and
: life. AS Judge, his calm and judi
cial temperament, combined with an
extraordinary power of keen analy-
sis and unerring discernment, mark
ed him early in his career as one pos
Il sessing the qualities of an ideal judi
y cial officer to very high degree; his
$ decisions were lucid, clear and strong
~ and his reasoning cogent and unan-
10 swerable. OF the hundreds of cases
- involving many millions of dollars III
~ the aggregate, heard and decided by
~ not surpassed by any judge known
= to your committee; and, upon ques
do tions involving water and minera
u rights, his decisions were invariabl!
~ sustained, and approvingly cited anC
q. followed as law in similar cases, no
=. only by courts of coordinate jurisdic
- ton and by the supreme courts .
~ the various States, but by the highes
ca judicial tribune in the world-th
Supreme Court of the United States
Judge Hawley was at all time
discriminating and approaching. H
devoted his long life, brilliant tai
ents and attachments to an impartia
ID and conscientious discharge of hi
duties. His life was EXCEPTIONAL
IN CLEAR lEOUl even d ouSSCollOA
wrongdoing To his friends he wa
Dr. ever loyal and true, and towards hi
professional brethren ever cordia
or and courteous. His ideals of pre-
fessional honor and ethics were pre-
eminently high and consummate; hi
reading and education broad; his il
formation general and extensive; h
leu legal education sound and true; h
sympathies quick; and his impulse
cid noble and generous. In address
raj while not eloquent, he was clear, ca
nest, convincing and forcible; and h
nix arguments were concise, logical an
for persuasive. He detested pretense ar
affectation, and abhorred and avoi
ing ed subterfuge. He was man amor
his, men; modest of his own merits, al
unstinting in his praise of the meri
to of others At all times genial, h
on friendship was as warm as it w
sincere and enduring His judgme
lair was just, and he was, in the fulle
re- sense of the word, An honest ma
urg the noblest work of Cod
Your committee, therefore, nc
cen moves that this report be adopte
lrn- that a committee be appointed
ON move the district court at Tonop
her that this report be spread upon t
minutes of said court; that certifi
. OF copy thereof be forwarded to
rom clerk OF the Circuit Court OF
lain United States. Ninth circuit, distr
re- OF Nevada. and to the relatives
said deceased: and. as furtt
and mark of respect for the life. charaeI
for and memory OF Judge Thomas
turn Hawley. the said court stand I
SEN journed for the day.
= in Respectfully submitted,
KEY PITTMAN,
HUGH II. BROWN.