The Legal World Uniform ‘parfncnllip Ad A Uniform Partnership Act, drawn
of Uniform Commissioners and Ameri can Bar Association will meet.
up in accordance with the aggregate
as opposed to the entity theory, was favored at the meeting of the Committee on Commercial Law of the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, at Philadelphia Feb. 3-4. Three drafts were presented to the Committee, the
original one based by the late Dean James Barr Ames on the entity theory, one by Dean William Draper Lewis and James B. Lichtenberger based on
Personal
Alfred Stedman Hartwell, Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who is in his seventy-fifth year, resigned
Feb. 2.
Chief Justice Hartwell was a
member of the Massachusetts legisla ture in 1867. Gen. George B. Davis has retired from the ofiice of Judge Advocate General, U. S. A., on reaching the age
that theory, and one by Dean Lewis and Mr. Lichtenberger based on the aggre
of sixty-four and has been succeeded
gate or common law theory. The merits
by Col. Enoch H. Crowder, with the
of the two theories were discussed by able speakers. The advocates of the entity theory included Prof. Samuel
rank of Brigadier-General.
Williston, who thought this theory was consistent and solved some of the difficult problems of our present law.
He believed it to be the idea underlying the decisions in most states. A letter
The following nominations have lately been confirmed by the Senate: George E. Martin of Ohio, Associate Judge
of the Court of Customs Appeals; Walter 1. Smith, Circuit Judge, eighth
from Judge Hough of New York favor ing this theory was read. The aggregate
circuit; Frank H. Rudkin, District Judge, the eastern district of Washing ton; Pedro De Aldrey, Associate Jus
theory was supported by Prof. Francis
tice of the Supreme Court of Porto
M. Burdick of Columbia, Prof. Floyd
Rico; Alfred E. Holton, United States Attorney, the western district of North Carolina; Edward Engerud, United
R. Mechem of Chicago, Prof. George D. Zohm, Prof. William R. Vance, Prof. Aymar of New York Law School,
and George Wharton Pepper of Phila
States Attorney, Dakota.
district of
North
delphia, and a communication from the
late Judge Francis C. Lowell of Boston favoring the aggregate theory was read.
The committee resolved that the drafts men, Dean Lewis and Mr. Lichtenberger, revise the draft adopting the aggregate or common law theory in accordance
Applause which lasted several minutes greeted Justice Charles E. Hughes of the
United States Supreme Court when he rose to speak last night at the annual banquet of the New York County Bar Association, Feb. 18, at the Hotel Astor.
with the views expressed, and present the same to the committee for further consideration at Boston in the latter
The demonstration was considered re
part of August, when the Conference
opponents of Mr. Hughes during his
markable from the fact that the gather
ing included men who were vigorous
