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The Legal World The state of Washington has passed compulsory compensation law which covers extra-hazardous industries, in
cluding practically
all
work
except
domestic service, agriculture and some
forms of handwork.
The plan has
The Committee on Commercial Law of the American Bar Association met at Cincinnati in the last week of May. The following addresses were made: "Progress toward Uniformity of State
Commercial Legislation,"
by Walter
some features of state insurance, as the funds are to be administered by three
George Smith; "Wisdom of the Enact ment of a Federal Commercial Code,"
industrial insurance commissioners, with
by Joseph Wheless; “A Federal Code
their assistants, who shall also keep
on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes," by Charles A. Conant; “De
statistics of accidents. The payments are made entirely by the employer,
fects in the National Bankruptcy Act,"
each supplying an annual contribution,
by Charles T. Greve;
based upon the degree of hazard in his particular industry, of from one and one-half to ten per cent of his pay roll.
Commercial Legislation” by F. I. Kent.
and "National
The rates are to be readjusted from time
The New York Chamber of Com merce’s new committee on arbitration,
to time by the Legislature, on the recom mendation of the Insurance Department.
appointed to arbitrate business disputes under the provisions of the Code of
Miscellaneous
Justice Davis of the Supreme Court June 1. It is the successor of the Court
Civil
An important bill for the recodifica tion of all the juvenile laws of Ohio,
relating to children's courts and delin quent and dependent children, has been enacted. The first international congress on aviation law, which was in session in
Paris for several days under the Presi dency of Alexandre Millerand, ended June 1.
Procedure,
was
sworn
in
by
of Commerce, which was for many years maintained by the Chamber, but which
lapsed after the death of Judge Fancher. The arbitration committee is composed of Charles L. Bernheimer, chairman; Henry Hentz, James Talcott, James H. Post, William Lummis, Frank A. Ferris
and Algernon S. Frisselhg
The congress adopted an agree
ment of seventeen clauses.
Obifuaryl Judge S. B. Pound-Judge S. B.
Members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, prominent lawyers of the state,
and a few personal friends of Luther Swift Dixon, Chief Justice of Wisconsin
from 1859 to 1874, gathered in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, June 1, for the
dedication of a monument to him. The presentation was made by Justice John Marshall, for the sub-committee of the Wisconsin Bar Association which de vised means of erecting the memorial. The speech of acceptance was delivered by Chief Justice John B. Winslow.
Pound, a prominent attorney of Omaha, Neb., and father of Roscoe Pound,
Story Professor of Law in Harvard University, died of angina pectoris May 15. Judge Pound was the first president of the Lancaster County Bar Association, probate judge of Lancaster county in 1870, state senator one term
and district judge for three successive terms. He was a member of the firm of Hall, Woods 81 Pound. The act which made Omaha the capital of Nebraska was due to the efforts of Judge Pound,
