The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-06-02
ADOPT
RESOLUTIONS ON
JUDGE RANNEY
Order Eulogy of Former Jur-
list Spread on Minutes of
Court Record.
MEMORIAL ASSEMBLY
FILLS COURT ROOM
Judge Davis, III. E. Alexander,
Sen. T. F. Lane and Others
Deliver Addresses.

Resolutions eulogizing the late Judge
Robert Giboney Ranney Of the Com
mon Pleas Court, yesterday afternoon
were adopted by the Cape County Bar
Association at memorial service held
in the Common Pleas courtroom.
Addresses on Judge Ranney's life
and his career were delivered by ten
well-known Cape County lawyers who
had practiced before his bar. The
meeting was held preceding the after
noon session of the court, before an
audience that filled the courtroom.
The Ranney memorial resolution
was drafted by committee of the bar
association, composed of Judge B. F.
Davis of this city, and T. D. Hines and
Wilson w. Cramer of Jackson.
! Judge Davis read the resolutions,
which were then ordered spread upon
the minute books of the court. The
resolutions said in part:
| Judge Ranney was a lawyer of
much ability. His power before the
courts and juries was largely the re-
suit of his mental qualities with which
he was endowed by nature, coupled
with his well-known intellectual hon.
esty.
"He enjoyed to a marked degree the
confidence of the courts before whom
he practiced. He was a tireless work
er and skillfull in the management of
his cases. He was candid and direct
in the presentation of his clients
cause. He was simple and unassum-
ing in manner and speech.
"On the bench he was the honest,
just and fearless Judge. To the men,
bers of the bar and those who had
business in his court, he was most kind
and considerable in his treatment.
Judge Ranney was by nature a
philosopher and logician. Clarity, dig
nifty, nobility Of soul as well as learn
ing characterized his judgments. He
possessed the judicial quality to rare
degree. His native and rugged hon
esty, his clear conception of the right
and the law of the case, his upright
character and his extensive knowledge
of the law, made for him an enviable
reputation as Judge, and attracted
business to this Court from other
counties of Southeast Missouri.
Judge Ranney was domestic in his
tastes and habits. He was a kind and
loving husband and father. His home
was the one place where he delighted
to spend his quiet hours when not
engaged in the work of his profession
or in the discharge of official duties.
! There, in the boom of his family, sur
rounded by those he held most dear, he
sought surcease from the labor and
stress Of professional and official life
and their manifold duties, and it was
there his qualities as husband and
father shone forth. Judge Ranney's
life was one of even tenor and his
death was courageous and in keeping
with his beautiful life.
"For more than three score years
he lived among us, unpretentious and
going about doing good. BY his deeds
and by his example, as we'll as by his
just judgments, he made the world
better. He died rich in the heritage
of the respect the honor and the affec-
ton of his fellow citizens.
Therefore be it resolved, that it is
a just tribute to his upright and very
honorable career as a lawyer and as
Judge, and as a member of this bar,
that page of the records of this
Court be set apart and inscribed with
these resolutions in honor of his name
and in memory of his useful life as a
citizen and as public official; and be
it further
Resolved, that the bar extends its
heartfelt sympathy to his family, who
Notwithstanding their great grief, may
find some comfort in the knowledge
that Judge Ranney enjoyed to the end,
the respect, confidence and the affec-
ton of his fellow members of this bar.
(Signed) Wilson Cramer,
T. D. Hines,
Benz. F. Davis"
Memorial addresses were delivered
by Judge Davis, A. P. Stewart, Ed