The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-13
LAWYERS WILL ASK
 SEVERAL CHANGES State Bar Association Meets at
 Montgomery
 1; RELIEVE SUPREME COURT
RELIEVE SUPREME COURT
Court of Appeals to Relieve the Higher Body of so Much
 Detail Work

Montgomery, January 12.-(Special)- Legislation of great importance to the lawyers of Alabama is desired by the Alabama State Bar association, which held session in this city at the capitol today. The session was one which was adjourned from the annual meeting of the association in Mobile last summer, and was well attended by lawyers from va rious parts of the state.
 Today's meeting of the association was for the purpose of directly mpressins upon the 1911 legislature the importance of certain recommendations which were made by the association at it's Mobile meeting. Call for the special meeting of today was made by President John Lon don of Birmingham. and sent out by Judge Alex Troy of Montgomery.
 Numerous changes are desired by the lawyers, chief of which is recommenda- tion that a court of appeals be estab- lished in Alabama to relieve the supreme court of much of its work. Joseph H. Nathan chairman of the committee on Jurisprudence recommended such a court at the Mobile session of the lawyers It Is understood in capitol circles now that Representative Lavendar of Bibb county has taken the cue in a bill providing for such a court, which it is said he will read to the legislature at an early moment.
 Senator Tom Stevens of Mobile is be- lieved to be in favor of such a meas ure.
 Uniform bills of ladng and uniform stock transfer are among the matters which are deemed of urgent importance.
 Proposed Legislation
 Further legislation desired is as follows:
 An act to regulate notice and evidence.
 An act to protect bona fide purchasers of real estate or any interest therein.
 An act to amend section 3Sl2 of the code of 100, relating to the dover of widows.
 An act to repeal section 620S of the code of 1907.
 An act to protect purchasers at judi cial sales.
 An act to provide the effect of mort gages, deeds and other conveyances of the homestead which do not comply with section 416l of the code.
 An act to prohibit any deputy, solic- ity or county solicitor. or the partner of any such prosecuting officer. from de- lending Tn any courts of which he is such officer, any persons charged with crime.
 An act to regulate the practice on near- ing motions for change of venue
 An act to amend section 3l15 of the code of 1907 to the effect that a de- fendant may incorporate all matters of defense in his answer and is not re- quired 10 plead specially in any case.
 An act to amend section BPS of the code of 1907.
 An act to amend section 4753 of the code of 1907.
 An act to amend section 3373 of the code of 1907.
 An act to provide for the reservation of exceptions to rulings of courts on questions of evidence and the rendition of judgment without the intervention of jury.
 An act to regulate the filing of motions relating to pleadings and to make the same part of the record.
 An act to regulate the practice in courts of equity in setting down demurrers and pleas for argument and in taking decrees pro confesso and decrees establishing the sufficiency of pleas.