Latest Important Cases Miscellaneous Articles of Interest to the Legal Profession American Traits. "The Middle West: I, The Fibre of the People." By Prof. Edward A. Ross. Century, v. 83, p. 609 (Feb.). "'Do you note any difference/ I asked a Western man in the service of a New England state, 'between your people and the people here?" 'Yes,' he replied, 'My own people look at life in a big way. They are more willing to co operate, more generous in supporting things for the general good, more ready to use the state government to serve their common needs. The folks here lack the m«-feeling. An intense parochialism keeps them jealous of their state government, and a suspicious individualism binders them from working together for their common benefit. In many directions I see their narrow-mindedness and mistrust of one another holding them back from prosperity.'" Biography. "James Iredell: Lawyer, States man, Judge, 1751-1799." By Federal Judge H. G. Connor, 60 Univ. of Pa. L. Rev. 225 (Jan.). "His early death cut short a career on the bench full of promise of enlarging scope and use fulness. That he would have continued to develop
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his high judicial qualities and, if permitted, shared with the 'Great Chief Justice' the work of laying deep and strong the foundations of American constitutional law cannot be doubted." "Roger Brooke Taney." By George L. Chris tian. 46 American Law Review 1 (Jan.-Feb.). "Roger Brooke Taney was a great man and a great judge, a brave and true patriot who dared to do his duty as he saw it in the most trying and perilous period of his country's history." Tariff. "What's the Matter with Business?" II. The Views of Leslie M. Shaw." By Francis E. Leupp. Outlook, v. 100, p. 29 (Jan. 6). "A tariff which measures the difference in the cost of production ... is not free trade, nor is it protection; it is competition. Children in the eighth grade know that if it costs one dollar to make an article in the United States which Germany can make for seventy-five cents, a tariff of twenty-five cents gives Germany an equal chance to supply pur market. . . ." "The idea of charging the tariff to meet changed business conditions is the rankest nonsense. It matters relatively little what the tariff is, business will adjust itself to it in time. It is the uncertainty that frightens people."
Latest Important Cases Bankruptcy. Exemption of Wife's Interest in Insurance Policy from Seiz ure by Creditors — Contingent Interest Not Protected by the Statute. U. S. Judge Dodge, in the United States District Court at Boston, January 23, overruled the Referee in Bankruptcy and held that Edward L. Loveland, a bankrupt, had a cash surrender value in an endowment policy of $2,000 upon his life, which was aji asset that passed to his trustee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt had claimed that there was an exemption on the insurance policy under Sec. 6 of the bankruptcy act, by reason of the fact that the Massachu setts statute protects policies payable to a married woman from being reached
by creditors of the insured. The court decides that there was no exemption in this case, because by the terms of the policy Loveland's wife had only a con tingent interest. The policy was payable to Loveland at the end of the twenty-year endowment period if he should live, and in case of his death it was payable to his wife, if living, otherwise to his executors. Be sides, he has the right to change the beneficiary at any time. Employers' Liability. Concealed Danger of Psychological or Physiological Origin — A utomatic Muscular Sequence in Operation of Dangerous Machine — Employer's Duty to Give Warning. Wis. The circumstances of a novel and
