Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held at the Law School for forty years took place yesterday afternoon and proved a great success. Professor Smith presided and more than half the Law School was in attendance. The jury were absent two hours before they finally returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The case before the court was a modification of the famous Howland will case...
...court was made up as follows: Judge, Professor Smith. Plaintiff, J. Codman. Defendant, B. L. Hand. Counsel for the plaintiff, T. W. Perkins and R. S. Barlow. Counsel for the defendant, F. R. Bangs and A. N. Hand. Witnesses, A. D. Hill and C. L. Barlow. Expert on handwriting, G. K. Bell. Sheriff, D. R. Vail...
...Last year he spent in Europe, studying chiefly in the German universities. Clark was not very widely acquainted here, but those who knew him speak very highly; not merely of his ability, but-what is better-of his character and good fellowship. He was a member of the Superior Court of the Thayer Law Club, in which he took a lively interest. In him the University has lost a faithful and promising student...
...Superior Court of each club meets, as a rule, every week. Two men are chosen counsel for each meeting and they argue a case before the other six men who sit as judges. The chief justice is always a member of the Supreme Court and he hands down the case which is to be argued...
...proceedings of the Supreme Court are much the same except that the chief justice is either one of the professors in the school, or a member of the Court of Appeals, if there is one, or else a judge from the Supreme Court itself...