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5 Wash. St. B. News 1 (1951)

handle is hein.barjournals/wasbn0005 and id is 1 raw text is: l 5ag ingt.n 1'tatN 1951 age 1 Vol. 5, No. 1 JANUARY, 1951 Page 1 NEW HANDBOOK ON BILL-DRAFTING To make bill-drafting in the Washing- ton State Legislature easier and faster for law makers, the University of Washington Bureau of Governmental Research and Services has published a handbook on the subject, it was announced recently. Author of the inanual is Mark H. Wight, State Law Librarian and State Code Com- mittee Chairman. The pamphlet, entitled Bill Drafting in Washington, explains the technical requirements and usage in writing bills, such as statutory construction, constitu- tionality, and correct phrasing. The pamphlets, which have already been distributed to legislators, are avail- able at the University of Washington Press for fifty cents. SEATTLE BAR MEETINGS Four legislators appeared at the Se- attle Bar Association's recent weekly meeting on January 3. Subject was What Is Cooking in the 1951 Legislature? All King County lawyer members of the leg- islature were guests. Senators Albert D. Rosellini and Victor Zednick and Repre- sentatives Edward E. Henry and George V. Powell spoke. At the weekly meeting on December 20, the quarterly gathering featured Christmas music by the 50-voice Lincoln High School Choir, gifts to members and a drama by infamous members. The preceding week, John M. Davis dis- cussea Filing Security Instruments. The case reviewed was that of Sidney C. Vo- linn, Sarchett v. Fidler, 137 Wash. Dec 340. Members were reminded of the need of contributions to the Legal Aid Bureau. Herbert S. Little spoke on Explosive Dilemmas in the Far East at the Decem- ber 6 meeting. The case of Erik Froberg, Bruener v. Twin City Fire Iniurance Co., 137 Wash. Dec. 171, was reviewed. Dean Judson F. Falknor of the Uni- versity of Washington discussed A Code of Evidence for Washington' at the No- vember 29 meeting. Case review was John W. Sweet, McGinn v. Kimmel, 136 Wash. Dec. 727. On November 22 S. Harold Shefelman spoke about Law Office Problems and the case reviewed was that of John D. Blankinship, Adams v. Superior Court, 136 Wash. Dec. 806. VOLINN SEATTLE OFFICE MOVED Sidney C. Volinn announces the mov- ing of his law offices to 402 Northwestern Mutual Building in Seattle. NOTE OF CAUTION Members of the Bar who are or may be interested in the drawing of amend- atory legislation to be presented to the current session of the Legislature should be careful to see that the for- mer law references in the. same coni- llies with the State Constitution, Ar- ticle II, Sec. 37. There is reason to believe that amendatory legislation which refers to the Revised Code of Washington enacted by reference as Chapter 16, Laws of 1950, Extraordi- nary Session, would not comply with the above referred to constitution pro- vision for Revision or Amendment of existing law. BOARD OF GOVERNORS HOLD JANUARY MEETING The Board of Governors of the Wash- ington State Bat Association held a meet- ing on January 6 in Seattle. The mem- bers of the board conferred with the chairmen of four committees. The chairmen were: Ben C. Grosscup, chairman of the advisory committee on the code; Joseph D. Cook, chairman of the committee on legal education; Fred- erick J. Lordan, chairman, Wilbur J. Lawrence and Robert B. Lytel, all of the committee on administrative law; and Alfred H. Lundin, chairman of the com- mittee on unauthorized practice of law. The board also passed on applications to take the bar examination January 15. The next meeting of the board will be held in Tacoma on Monday, February 12. Members will meet with the Tacoma Bar and, following the business meeting, cele- brate Lincoln's Birthday with the Tacoma Bat' at their annual banquet. MUNTER DELEGATE TO AMERICAN BAR Richard S. Munter of Spokane, past- president of the Washington State Bar Association, has announced his candidacy as state delegate of the Washington State Bar Association to the American Bar As- sociation. This position was formerly held fot' many years by W. G. McLaren of Se- attle, and is now occupied by Robin Welts of Mount Vernon. Mr. Welts has an- nounced that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself. Mr. Munter has recently been appoint- ed by Cody Fowler, president of the American Bar Association, as a member of the Committee on American Citizen- ship. JUDGE RONALD, 95, DIES IN SEATTLE Judge James Theodore Ronald, judge of the King County Superior Court for 40 years until retirement in 1949, died late last month. The 95-year-old jurist was the oldest judge of a court of record in the United States at the time of his retirement, the 40th anniversary of his appointment to the bench. Judge Ronald was born on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks where he was grad- uated from a state normal school in 1875. He moved to California and studied law in his spare time and was admitted to the bar several years later. He and his wife came to Seattle from San Francisco, a six-day voyage then, in 1882. Ten years later, in 1892, Judge Ronald was elected mayor of Seattle and served until 1894. Later his law partners in- cluded Samuel H. Piles, who became a United States Senator and minister to Co- lumbia, and R. A. Ballinger, who became secretary of the interior. In 1885, the young lawyer 'become U. S. attorney for King, Kitsap and Snohomish counties and led the Democratic ticket as a candidate for Congress at the turn tf the century. He served as a regent of the University of Washington and as a mem- 6. of the Seattle School Board. He was appointed Superior Court judge April 1, 1909. He is survived by three daughters, a sister, eight grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Memorial services were held in the presiding judge's department with the judges sitting en bane and members of the Seattle Bar As- sociation cooperating. 134 STUDENTS TAKE BAR EXAMINATION The Washington State Bar Association office reports that 134 students and three lawyers took the bar examination on Jan- uary 15. Sixty-six of the students and one law- yer took the exam in Spokane and 68 students and two lawyers wrote in Se- attle. THOMAS MAGUIRE APPOINTED BY MILWAUKEE ROAD Thomas H. Maguire, general attorney in Seattle for the Milwaukee Road, has been appointed general attorney and com- merce counsel for the railroad at Chicago. B. E. Lutterman, assistant general attor- ney in Seattle, succeeds Maguire. M. E. Sharp has been appointed attorney from the position of chief clerk.

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