The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-26
American Bar Association
Hears Report on Reform
Of the Judiciary.
MORE attention FROM THE
JUDGES WHEN HEARING CASES
Misconception Of Testimony Comes
Largely From the Fact That Judges
Are Indifferent to the Truth Of
Statements Made by Counsel

Detroit. Aug. 26.-At today's ses-
sion of the annual convention Of tho
American Bar association the com.
mittee appointed two years ago to
consider the matter OF unnecessary
costs and delays in litigation. submit
ted a report in which it advocates C
gradual but sweeping reform in judi
cial. procedure. Further, the COM
mittee outlined the general principles
on which 1t considered reorganiza.
tton of the state courts should event.
ually be effected.
The judicial power of each state,
"says tho report" at least for civil
causes, should be vested in one great
court of which all the tribunals
should be branches. departments or
divisions. The business as well as
the judicial administration of the
court should be thoroughly organized
&c as to prevent not merely a WASTE
Of the judicial power, but all need /.
less clerical work, the duplication OF
papers and records and the like, thus
obviating the expense of ligants and
the costs to the public.
This court should have three chief
branches. the county courts, includ.
Ing municipal courts, superior court
OF the first instance, and a single ulti-
mate court of appeals. All judges
should be judges of the whole court
assigned to some branch or locality
but eligible and liable to sit in any
other branch when called upon to do
SO. The supervision of the business
administration OF whole court should
be committed to some high official of
the court who would be responsible
for the failure to utilize the judicial
power Of tho state effectively"
The committee suggest that simi-
lar official, who should be a Judge
and not clerk, should act in each
branch or division and that in like
manner the clerical and stenographer
force should be under the supervision
OF responsible officer with suitable
subordinate supervisory officials.
Judges Toe Sleepy.
The evils OF legal argument based
on mfsconception of testimony were
touched upon in the address last
night Of Justice William L. Carpente,
of Michigan on courts of last an
peal" before the convention. Justice
Carpenter urged judges to assume a
more attentive attitude in court and
encourage lawyers to make fair state
mentc.
Prof. Harold D. Hazeltine of EN-
manuel college, Cambridge university,
England, read paper last night, be-
fore the Association of American Law
Schools on legal education in Eng.
land"
Charles Noble Gregory, dean of the
Iowa state university college of law
and president of tho Association O:
American Law Schools, in his annual
address to the association referred
particularly to the growth of law
schools throughout the country and
the advance in educational standards.
For the latter he gave most of tho
credit to the activity of the associa.
ton. Dean James B. Ames OF Har.
| ward law school, and Sir Frederick
Pollock of England led In the discus.
sion of Prof. Hazeltines and Dean
Gregory's papers.
A meeting of the committee on pa
tent, trademark and copyright law
was held this afternoon. 1t was rec.
commended that the bill for the es.
tablishment Of a United States court
OF patent appeals and for other pur.
poses, now awaiting enactment by
congress, receive the full attention OF
the committee and active support fo3
Its passage. The bill has been pend
ing about two years.