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6 Case & Com. 1 (1899-1900)

handle is hein.journals/cscmt6 and id is 1 raw text is: Case and Comment NOTES OF RECENT IMPORTANT, INTERESTING DECISIONS INDEX TO ANNOTATION OF THE LAWYERS' REPORTS, ANNOTATED LEGAL NEWS NOTES AND FACET12E VOL. 6 JUNE, 1899. No. 1 CASE AND COMMENT Monthly. Subscription, 50 cents perannum post- paid. Single numbers. 5 cents. THE LAWYERS' CO-OPERATIVE PUB. CO., Rochester, N. Y. NEW YORK, 79 Nassau St. CHICAGO, Rand-McNally Bldg. Entered at postoffice at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class mail matter. William R. Day. took a commanding position in the law prac- tice of the state. He was elected to the com- mon pleas bench in 1886, but after a brief service he resigned, presumably because the salary of $2,500 per year was insufficient to justify the surrender of his professional in- come. President Harrison appointed him judge of the United States court of the north- ern district of Ohio in 1889, but a threatened failure of health compelled him to resign be- fore he qualified. He has now been appointed circuit judge of the sixth circuit. Judge Day is of slender build, but has demonstrated his ability to endure the strain The masterful way in which representative of long-continued mental exertion which might American lawyers have shown their capacity be disastrous to many who appear to be of for the largest national and international affairs greater physical strength. when called from their professional life into Judge Day's wife, Mary Schaefer Day,whose the public service has one ot its most striking father was a practising lawyer in Canton, is a illustrations in the career of William R. Day. highly accomplished woman. Theyhave four It is one of the many demonstrations that no sons, the oldest of whom is now a student at public position is too hightor a lawyer of sym- Ann Arbor. His brother, David B. Day, with metrical, keen, and trained intellect, sound Austin Lynch, a younger brother of his first judgment, and high character, law partner, made up the firm of Day, Lynch, Judge Day has been a prominent figure in & Day at the time of Judge Day's appointment eastern Ohio for many years, and has been to the bench. known throughout the state as a lawyer of The extraordinary career of Judge Day pronounced ability. He was born in 1849 at under President McKinley's administration, Ravenna, in Portage county, on what is known first as Assistant Secretary of State, and then as the Western Reserve, settled by people from as Secretary of State, and finally as chairman Connecticut and other New England states and of the commission which negotiated the treaty New York. But when he went from Ravenna of peace with Spain, has given him an endur- to Canton in Stark county, to settle for the ing place among American statesmen. His practice of the law, although he went but one whole career gives assurance of exceptionally codnty south, he changed from a Yankee com- valuable services on the bench. munity into one that had been settled in large part by immigration from Pennsylvania Ger- Seating Members in Congress., man localities. He was graduated from the collegiate department of the University of The dramatic features of the long deadlock Michigan, and also from its law department in the attempt to elect a senator from Pennsyl- in 1872. Shortly after this he was admitted vania resulting in the governor's appointment to the bar and became the law partner of Will- of Senator Quay to be his own successor gives iam A. Lynch, in Canton. The firm rapidly peculiar interest to the question whether he

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