The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
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could only get caught up once. You
see this state is getting settled ul
and the business of the courts keeps
increasing all the time with the in
crease of population and business;
When the territory was first organ
lied there was so little litigation that
it took the decisions of nine years to
make one law book, and here it is.
The next four years decisions made
the second book, and then it got SO
they made a book in a year, and
then two books a year, and nOw it
makes several. The work is coming
in faster than we can handle it. and
every Ease is important to those in
decide it right. We are now a year
and a half behind with our work.
When the state was organized there
were three judicial districts and
three judges. Now there are nine
districts and nine judges, with pros
poets of more being created. l don't
know how we are going to get all of
the cases heard and get time to read
the law of each case and write out
the opinions. If we had two more
judges and could parcel out the work
to more men it might help in a way,
but after all that is leaving the case
too much to n man to decide. 1t
doesn't take so long to hear a case,
nor it doesn't take so long to decide
just what to do with it, but it does
take great care and an infinite
amount of work to write the opinion
so that it carries the exact effect that
it was designed it should. It is so
easy to put it in such language that
it is possible of more than one mean
ing, and if we had some able lawyers
to receive their instructions and then
write the opinions and have them
ready to be reviewed by the justices,
i think 1t would enable us to handle
it a great deal faster. AS it is we
just work along without hope of get
ting caught up and the fact that so
many litigants are anxious to have
their cases settled makes it import
ant that we should do all we are
capable Of"
At the next place was Chief Justice
Il. N. Sullivan. Somebody was in.
Would we have a seat for just a
few minutes. We would. Soon the
buzzer buzzed and the door opened
and in we went. He was as gracious
as a prince and apologized for keep
ing us waiting for eve a few min
utes. He was cheerful and sunny.
He always Is. He asked about mu-
tual friends and acquaintance, the
crops and the prospects for business,
and while we talked his secretary
came in with two diplomas to be
signed, and a%pologized for interrupt
applicants that these two licenses to
practice should reach them right
away. AS the judge attached his
signature by the big golden seal he
that the supreme court is
making a good many lawyers, or
is licensing a good many men
to practice law. He said too, that
it is a pity that so many unscrupu-
lous men can and do answer the ,
questions satisfactorily and come
the limitations prescribed
whereby they can become clothed
with the rights to practice law. When
rose to go he went with us to
us to some others and find
else was in. Would we waltz. 1t
was Peter G. Johnston from our own
town, and we waited. Judge Bulge
Is not so slim as Judge Morgan. He
Is rather heavy. He is genial and
sunny and also asks about your
your wife, your business and
your mutual friends, and southeast
ern Idaho which he loves. When we
asked him as to his work he said
t was agreeable to him, but that he
lad worked so long without a respite
hat he felt the need of a vacation.
lie felt as If he wanted to go out in
he hills and among the old friends
,ver in the southeast and rest for
bout three months. OF course, he
could not stay so long as that, but {
le hoped to rest three or four weeks {
md get the keen edge back on his
mind and his energies so he could {
lush his work along better. They I
we're a year and a half behind with
t, and work as they might, they !
:ould not catch up, for cases keep {
in as fast as they car turn
hem out. "
Z Another cog in the wheel of the ,
upreme court is the attorney general l
position now being filled by j.. H. !
Jefferson a former Blackfoot man. He
8 tall and friendly. He was plodding :,
long with a law book and a pencil, 1
he too was behind with the work e
it comes in faster than they
take care of it. He was glad to d
ee somebody from the old home, :
sked about the old friends and the q
evelopment Of the town, and said he q
vas glad to have been remembered =
nd hunted up. \
There are many other offices in the y
uilding where a secretary or two I
eep the records while the chief Is o
ut working in various places over il
ne state. Among these are the vet n