FROM WHICH APPEALS MAY BE TAKEN TO THE SUPREME COURT.

DISTRICT COURTS.

First District-A. J. MCCRARY, Keokuk; JAMES D. SMYTH, Burlington. Second District-M. A. ROBERTS, Ottumwa; T. M. FEE, Centerville; F. W. EICHELBERGER, Bloomfield; ROBERT SLOAN, Keosauqua. Third District-H. M. Towner, Corning; W. H. TEDFORD, Corydon. Fourth District-SCOTT M. LADD, Sheldon; GEO. W. Wakefield, Sioux City; F. R. GAYNOR, Le Mars; JOHN F. OLIVER, Onawa. Fifth District-J. H. APPLEGATE, Guthrie Center; J. H. HENDERSON, Indianola; A. W. WILKINSON, Winterset.

Sixth District-DAVID RYAN, Newton; BEN McCoy, Oskaloosa; A. R. DEWEY, Washington.

Seventh District-C. M. WATERMAN, Davenport; W. F. BRANNAN, Muscatine; P. B. WOLFE, Clinton; A. J. HOUSE, Maquoketa. Eighth District-MARTIN J. WADE, Iowa City.

Ninth District-W. F. CONRAD, CALVIN P. HOLMES, THOMAS F. STEVENSON, WILLIAM A. SPURRIER, Des Moines.

Tenth District-J. J. TOLLERTON, Cedar Falls; A. S. BLAIR, Manchester.

Eleventh District-D. R. HINDMAN, Boone; S. M. WEAVER, Iowa Falls; BENJAMIN P. BIRDSALL, Clarion.

Twelfth District-JOHN C. SHERWIN, Mason City; PORTER W. Burr, Charles City.

Thirteenth District-L. E. FELLOWS, Lansing; A. N. HOBSON, West Union.

Fourteenth District-LOT THOMAS, Storm Lake; WILLIAM B. QUAR. TON, Algona.

Fifteenth District-A. B. THORNELL, Sidney; WALTER I. SMITH, Council Bluffs; N. W. MACY, Harlan; W. R. GREEN, Audubon. Sixteenth District-S. M. ELWOOD, Sac City; Z. A. CHURCH, Jeffer

son.

Seventeenth District-GEORGE W. BURNHAM, Vinton.

Eighteenth District-WILLIAM P. WOLF, Tipton; WILLIAM G. THOMP SON, Marion.

Nineteenth District-FRED O'DONNELL, Dubuque; JAMES L. HUSTED,

Dubuque.

SUPERIOR COURTS.

Cedar Rapids-THOMAS M. GIBERSON.

Council Bluffs-J. E. F. MCGEE.

Keokuk-HENRY Bank, Jr.

IN MEMORIAM.

WILLIAM H. SEEVERS.

On the 24th day of March, 1895, the Honorable William H. Seevers, formerly one of the justices of the Supreme Court, died at his home in Oskaloosa. The court having designated May 22, 1895, for the presentation of resolutions in memory of the deceased, the Honorable John F. Lacy addressed the court as follows:

MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT:

I have been directed by the Mahaska county bar to present resolutions of respect for the Honorable William H. Seevers, late chief justice of this court, with the request that these resolutions be entered upon your records.

Judge Seevers died at his home in Oskaloosa on the 24th day of March, 1895, at the age of seventy-three. Living, as he did, more than the three score and ten years allotted to man, whilst we mourn his death we rejoice that he has lived,

In 1844 he became a member of the Mahaska county bar, and remained identified with it for more than fifty years. He served his county as prosecuting attorney, twice as member of the legislature, and also sat upon the district bench. As a Code commissioner his labors are embodied in the Code of 1873. His thirteen years upon this bench, and part of the time as chief justice, have borne abundant fruit in the recorded decisions of this court,

His industry, his ability, his practical good sense, and his capacity for rapid, persistent and laborious work, did much to enable this court to keep its decisions substantially up to date during the greater part of his term of office. As a judge he was uninfluenced by popular clamor, and never strove for popular applause in his opinions. His strong good sense led him to the very pith and marrow of his cases. But it is needless for me to enlarge to his colleagues upon the value of his services upon this bench. Wherever we found him, as the maker of laws in the legislature, as a compiler and codifier of the statutes, as (v)

an active practitioner, or as member of the bench, he distinguished himself as a pure-minded, honorable and able lawyer.

It has been my good fortune in nearly thirty years of practice to have had the advantage of practicing at the same bar with Judge Seevers. There is no school of training so valuable in the legal profession as the trial of cases against lawyers of the first class. The bar of our county has always been recognized as a strong one, and it is to the leaders of that bar that it owes its strength. A bar having comprised among its members Peters, Eastman, Rice, Needham, Loughridge, Cutts, Williams, Pollock and Johnson, and the younger class who are now upon the stage of action and whom therefore I will not here name, will be recognized by this court as one which has done honor to the profession,

I have tried many cases against Judge Seevers; I have often been associated with him on the same side, and I have thus been able to know him well. In trying cases against a lawyer we see and learn the outside of a man. When associated with him he opens his heart and we see the inmost recesses of his nature; thus we learn to know our brethren at the bar both inside and out.

It was at the bar that Judge Seevers' career was mainly spent, His life was an open book for fifty years, and during those fifty years not one circumstance can be pointed to that we would desire to change. If all men were like Judge Seevers, the maxim De mortuis nil nisi bonum need never have been written, for there is nothing but good that we can say of him.

When the financial crash of 1857 came, Judge Seevers was connected with a banking institution, and his fortune was struck away by the wave of calamity which destroyed so much wealth in that ruinous year. Loaded with the burden of debt that would have driven a man of less buoyant nature to despair, Judge Seevers cheerfully entered upon the task of earning the means with which to pay it off, and it was not many years until the last of his obligations were extinguished,

As the president of the Iowa Central Railway, he was entitled to great credit in securing the construction of that great highway of travel through his town and county. Without abandoning his profession he has always been connected with business enterprises organized for the upbuilding of his town.

During his long life he always kept his heart young. Even on the morning of the fatal day that the hand of death was laid upon him, his gay laugh had rang out with all the old time mirth. Such was his constitutional vigor that it took him three months to die. A great cloud fell over the community when the word went forth that Judge Seevers had been stricken down.

I will not enlarge upon his family life; those relations are too sacred to dwell upon in public utterance. But that home life has been a model of kindly purity in the city where he so long made his home. The last time I remember to have seen Judge Seevers at the bar was

on the day when resolutions were presented in memory of Judge J. Kelly Johnson, Judge Johnson had finished his law studies in the office of Judge Seevers, and he died at the very noon-time of an active life. Judge Seevers, who was in perfect health, to all appearances, though past his three score and ten, commented with great feeling upon the fact that Judge Johnson should have died, whilst he, who was many years his senior should still be spared. His tribute to the memory of the dead jurist was worthy alike of the subject and the speaker, I am glad to remember him now as I saw and heard him then. I did not look in his coffin lest it might mar or obliterate that memory.

Twenty-three hundred years ago a Greek who was asked the question, "Why do you weep for the dead, for it is vain," replied, "I weep because it is in vain." And here to-day nothing that we can say can add to or detract from the life of Judge Seevers. In contemplating and speaking of him it is rather to benefit the living, to call attention to his example, than for the purpose of adding anything to the fame of our departed friend.

If your Honors please I ask that the following resolutions be entered upon the records of this court:

Resolved by the bar of Mahaska County, That in the death of our distinguished associate, the late chief justice, William H. Seevers, we have sustained an irreparable loss.

His official service to this county, the judicial district, and the State have been of such a character as to do honor alike to people whom he served and the position in which he has been placed.

As a prosecuting attorney, legislator, district judge, reviser of the Code, and member of the supreme court of the State, our deceased friend had proved his manhood, his integrity and ability.

As a loving husband, a kind father, a good neighbor, an earnest friend and an honest man, our departed brother has left behind him memories which bless his name. In no place of public trust has he more fully filled the true measure of duty than in his long and arduous service at this bar of which he has been a member since the organization of the county.

As our oldest practitioner he set his associates a noble example of honest, able and industrious labor in his chosen calling. As a pioneer he helped to lay deep and wide the foundation of the moral and industrial prosperity of our county and State.

Resolved, That we request that there be placed upon the records of this court and the supreme court of Iowa, this expression of respect, admiration and esteem for the departed leader of the Mahaska county bar.

JOHN F. LACEY,

J. A. L. CROOKAM,
J. O. MALCOLM,

Committee.

JAMES F. WILSON.

The Honorable James F. Wilson, for many years a leading member of the bar of the state and prominently identified with the history of the state and nation, departed this life at his home in Fairfield.

In accordance with designation, Hon. Charles D. Leggett presented to the Supreme Court the following resolutions in memory of the deceased:

BAR MEMORIAL ON THE DEATH OF HONORABLE

JAMES F. WILSON.

At an adjourned meeting of the bar of Jefferson county, Iowa, held at the office of I. D. Jones, Esq., in the city of Fairfield, on the 25th day of April, 1895, the majority of the members of the bar were present. J. J. Cummings, Esq., was called to the chair, and I. D. Jones, Esq., was made secretary. The chairman of the committee appointed at the meeting held at the court room on the 23rd day of April, 1895, to draft resolution on the death of Honorable James F, Wilson, presented the following report:

BAR MEMORIAL ON THE DEATH OF THE HONORABLE JAMES F. WILSON. The bar of Jefferson county join in the tributes to the memory of Hon. James F. Wilson. He was first a lawyer and a member of this bar. And from the standing and with the training and forensic skill here acquired, he entered upon his long and splendid career in the public service. As a framer of the constitution, as a legislator for the State and Nation, in the convention and in the senate, he was still in the highest sense a lawyer.

And when he laid aside the official robes, he put on again the harness of the lawyer to practice his profession in the highest tribunals.

We are proud of his achievements, which are the property of the Nation and of all its people, and of posterity; and we place on record our appreciation of his transcend. ent abilities, his untiring devotion to duty in every sphere, and of the sterling qualities of his heart, which endeared him to all with whom he was associated in every relation of life. He has been and always will be an inspiration to higher labors and ideals and to greater and more absolute devotion to duty and its demands.

After remarks by different members of the bar, the motion was unanimously carried adopting the report of the committee.

On motion it was ordered that a certified copy of the minutes of this meeting be presented to the family of Senator Wilson and that the chairman of the committee be directed to present a copy of the minutes to the District Court of this county, and move that it be spread upon the records of the court, and to the Supreme Court of the state of Iowa.

On motion the meeting adjourned until the hour for the funeral services, when the members of the bar should proceed to the service in a body with the lawyers present from other parts of the State. ATTEST: J. J. CUMMINGS,

I. D. JONES,
Secretary.

Chairman.

The chief justice then announced that, by order, the resolutions presented by Mr. Lacy and by Mr. Leggett be spread upon the record.