452
The Green Bag
(exclusive of index and table of cases,
which fill a volume of over seven hun dred pages) to put the subject properly
“After a decade of the most distin guished service on the federal bench in signation, the fall to of 1879, accepthe the tendered position his re of
before the profession of the present day. Jurisprudence Professor of Real in the Estate Lawand School of
In l89l~92 judge Dillon was President of the American Bar Association, and to mark his senseofthe value and usefulness of that organization as the accredited representative of the Bar of the United States and of the honor of having been one of its presidents, he dedicated
counsel of the Union Pacific Railroad tendered him at the same time. This resulted in his removal to New YOrk sional and thus career ended in his the ofiicial state which and profs? he so
the fifth edition of "Municipal Corpor tions" to that association. Judge Dillon telegraphed to the president of the asso
deeply loved and had so highly honored Let us briefly review it before touching
ciation, then in session, asking permis sion to make this dedication,which was unanimously granted. The Hon. P. W. Meldrim of Georgia, speaking on the subject, said :—
“In regard to the telegram from Judge would special lawyer of our
Dillon, it occurs to me that it be proper for us to take some notice of it. No living American has contributed more to the sum information than he. His great
work on Municipal Corporations will live after many of the existing corpor
ations themselves shall have perished. Great as has been his service, yet this
association loves him most because he has always been with us the charming
companion and friend.
It seems to me,
Columbia College, and that of general
upon subsequent even ts.
“For the repeated honors which had been bestowed upon him he was indebttd to no political strategems. I-Iis rapld advancements did not spring from that
source. They were gained by the Ste??? display of those superlative qualmfi that inhere in and, as it were. Cm?“
great lawyers and judges, and of wlllfih the instinct of unremitting toil is the greatest. He recognized with Carlyle that ‘there is a perennial nobleness and
even sacredness in work,’ and that l?" excellence can be attained only by "5 exercise. A more constant Observance of these principles has rarely been 50 we“ exemplified in any other public man" “Of his labors on the state dist“ct bench and the superior abilities he
therefore, that a resolution should be passed to this effect: ‘That the American Bar Association appreciates the high
there displayed as a m'si prius judge‘
courtesy of Judge Dillon in dedicating
no attestation need be added to th?“
to it the new edition of his great work,
carried in what has already been 531d‘ While judge of that court he prepared
and expresses its appreciation of his courtesy and extends to him its very
digest lon's Digest." of Iowa reports, How this known cameas about “Dll'
best wishes.’ I move, sir, the adoption of the resolution." The importance and value of his
oughness trates he oncethe related he searching gave to to me, industry every andundertakingl asand it thof‘ illus-
judicial and professional labors are well expressed in an excellent article by Hon. Edward H. Stiles, an eminent law yer of Kansas City, published in “Annals
of Iowa," from which is extracted :—
and gave to the profession the 51:“
I give that relation.
He told me that
when entered and every he upon wascase the elected that careful district hadstudy been judge ofbefore each he
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