The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-05
E. w. LAWRENCE HEADS
VERMONT BAR ASSN.
Annual Meeting of Association Closed
With Banquet at Montpelier
Last Night.

! Edwin w. Lawrence Of Rutland was
| elected president Of the Vermont Bar
association yesterday afternoon. Judge
Erwin M, Harvey Of Montpelier was
elected first vice president, Frank =.
Barber of Brattleboro second vice pres
ident and Frank G. Archibald Of Man
chester third vice president. George N
Hogan of st. Adams was reelected
secretary and librarian and Fred e.
! Gleason Of Montpelier was reelected
treasurer. William w. Rerden of Bar
ton was elected member of the board
Of managers for three years.
The 44th annual meeting closed last
night with banquet at the Pavilion,
which was attended by about 100 mem
bers of the Vermont bar. The chief
speakers were Governor James Hart
ness Of Vermont, Henry 4. Hnrlburt,
president of the Boston bar; John a..
Sullivan, X. O., representing the bar Of
Montreal, and Julius A. Wilcox, supc-
rior Judge. After the induction Of Ed
win W. Lawrence Of Rutland as pres
ident, the final adjournment took
place. n
At the afternoon session, Frank
Plumlcy presented memorial sketch
of the late Chief Superior Judge Zed
S. Stanton. which was given added in
terest by Mr.. Plumley's close acquaint-
ance with the late Judge Stanton.
The report of Marvelle G. Webber,
chairman of the committee on uniform
state laws, brought from members
present expressions of opinion opposed
to the passage of certain uniform state
laws. President John w. Redmond
stated that no one was finding fault
with the present state legislation on
partnership and other legal subjects,
which were Hammered out on the an
vii" by former Vermont justices. In his
opinion. no new law could operate bet
ter than the present one, and he OPP
posed the passage Of uniform laws sim
ply because other states were passing
such laws.
Theodore e. Hopkins, chairman of
the committee on legal history and bi
ography, reported 10 members OF the
association dead. They we're Henry
Clay Ide of st. Johnsbury, Seneca
Haselton of Burlington, Otis n. kel-
ton of st. Albans, Sheldon r. Boright
of Richford, Hiram P. Dee of st. Al
bans, George L. Lawrence of Rutland,
Charles AFRO Prouty of Newport, |
Frank f. Alfred OF Fairfax. Loveland |
Munson of Manchester and Zed S. /
Stanton of Roxbury.
A part Of the report of the legisla-
tive committee recommending the |
and publication Of a new
digest OF Vermont court decisions was |
adopted. The report stated that 10 vol |
umes Of Vermont reports had been |
published since the issue of the last |
digest. Another part of the report re
pnrding a change in the law on the
waving of will by a husband or
wife was not adopted, The report was /
given by Fred r. Gleason Of Montpel-
Ter in the absence Of j. Ward Carver
Of Barre.
Hale X. Darling gave an enlightening /
address on "Declaratory Judgments"
tracing the history of this form of
Judgment from Roman times down
through the middle ages and through
he continental and English courts to
his country, He defined the declara
.ory Judgment as one which declares
he rights of persons or the opinions
II the court without ordering that any
hing be done. He emphasized the New
fork statute providing for this type
# Judgment, which is exercised in that
tate by the supreme court, and quoted
he statute, which is only about %
words in length.
A resolution was offered at the
morning session by Attorney General
Archibald to the effect that the asso-
iation should recommend that action
e taken either by amendment to ex-
sting rules or by the adoption OF new |
ules, relative to procuring transcripts
nd to procedure which will tend to de-
rease the expenses incident to the ,
rial of causes in the supreme court
his resolution was reeonsidered in ,
he afternoon session on motion of Ed /,
lin w. Lawrence, and was left with
he committee on Jurisprudence and
Nv reform on motion of W. B. c. /.
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