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1 Lackawanna Jurist 1 (1888-1889)

handle is hein.statereports/lackwj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LACKAWANNA JURIST AND LAW MAGAZINE. VOL. i. SCRANTON, PA., DECEMBER 14 1888. NO. i. A Lgd Publication. F. J. Filtsimmons, Editor. OUR MISSION. The LACKAWANNA JURIST AND LAW MAGAZINE is a consequence of the growth and progress of the profession of the law in Lackawanna County. The advancement made in the Forty-fifth Judicial District has been marked and rapid. Intricate and complicated cases, impor- tant, as involving large sums of money and still more important as establishing precedents for the guidance of Courts in future cases have been investigated and decided. Mining, manufacturing, commercial and some criminal cases, decided by our Courts in their brief- history, have attracted widespread attention because of the principles of law involved and the skill with which they were applied. The vast and ,peculiar interests of this part of the State which find their way into `our Courts,-as well as the eminent fitness of the man to explain and regulate them-led to the elevation of Judge land to the Supreme Court Bench. These cases should be preserved and published. Suits and actions at law have increased rapidly and accumulated in great numbers on the dockets. The faithful and hard working Courts were unable to keep the records clear, and this brought Legislative assistance and gave Lackawanna County an addi- tional judge. The amount of legal business which has been annually disp sed of will now be greatly increased, and as there will, from time to time, be two Courts running simultaneously, it will be quite impos- sible for the practitioner to keep himself informed as to the doings of both by his own attendance and exertions. But the JURisT will be a constant attendant and no crumb of legal wisdom will be dropped that helhill not gather. He will search among the dockets and files of the various Court offices; he will listen eagerly to the utterances of our neighboring tribunals; will open the musty tomes and volumes of legal experience wherein lie gems of

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