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Louisville Lawyer
VOL. I LOUISVILLE, KY.. NOVEMBER. 1955 No. 1
U ofLLaw School Established 109 Years
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISV ILLE SCHOOL OF LAW
MillerI McPherson and Fusl Win
In Nalional Mool Courl Eliminalions
MORE THAN 1500 GRADUATES
PRACTICING THROUGHOUT NATION
many of th ese mid-Ninet eenth Century'
lawyers wer e convinced that
formal insrtuction for lawyers was
rather usel ess. The traditional means
of preparing for a professional career
has been to read and work for a practicing
attorney, and th en to take th e
bar examination wh en one had read
widely enoug h and had acquired sufficie
nt practical training. It worked!
"Why change ?" people said.
But probably the more significant
reason explaining resentment towards
th e new school was that some lawyer s
feared that th ey would lose th e ben efit
of fr ee labor from th eir "reader s."
In 1846 th er e wer e few law schools
in th e United States, and most of th ese
maintained unimpressive acad emi c
stand ards. U of L's Law School was
one of the fir st to require two years
of legal training, rather th an th e usual
requirem ent of only one year.
According to th e University's officia
l history, th e Law School's early
faculty reads like a directory of "Who's
Who" in Kentucky's legal world.
Many prominent loc al lawyers sp ent
th eir afternoons lecturing on th e gre at
common law.
Moved Seven Times
During its I09 ye ars, th e School
of Law has been moved on seven
differ ent occasions. An acad emi c
stepchild, it was moved rep eatedly
to conform to the University's perennially
troublesome needs for "space."
In th is regard, it som etimes seem ed
tha t th e University was suspicious of
Law Sch ool for a great many ye ars,
fearing th at it occ upied a rather dubious
pl ace in a community of scholarship.
Until 1900, th e Law School teetered
and tottered. Its future was uncer.,
(Continued on Page 3)
As early at 1837, a convention of the Radical-Methodist
Episcopal Church advocated the organization of a school for
legal instruction in Louisville. It was in 1846, however, when
the University of Louisville received a charter from the Kentucky
General Assembly, that authorization was granted for
the creation of a "department of law" as one of the four departments
of The University.
A small adveriseme nt in th e Louisville
Morning Courier and Am erican
Democrat heralded th e beginnings of
th e School of Law, August 6, 1846.
Through four major wars, th e School
of Law has surv ive d, although its
future appe ared most pr ecarious man y
tim es.
Legal ed uc ation in th e fir st half
of th e Ei ghteenth Century was of a
highl y peculiar breed for it more
resembled th e independent tutorial
sessions conducted by Socrates than it
did th e modern university. Most law
schools wer e propriet ar y in nature,
ce nte ring usu ally aro und leading member
s of th e pr acti cin g bar , who instru
cted a few students who wer e attracted
to lawyers of reputation.
Basement Location
The first class es of the U of L Law
. School were somewha t propriet ar y in
th eir ma ke up. With its fir st locati on
in th e basement of th e old Jefferson
County Courthous e, th e Law School
faculty was drawn from members of
th e University's Board of Trust ees
who wer e successful practicing lawye
rs. From eac h student they received
$20 per course per ye ar. So that th eir
pr ofession al duties would not interfer
e with th eir leg al practices, the fir st
fac ulty members conduc ted their
cl asse; in th e afternoon.
Ther e wer e, in th ese early days,
only three courses av ailable to students
of th e law, but th e course titl es ind
icate th eir widely inclusive nature :
( 1 ) Constitutional and Commerci al
Law and Equity; ( 2) Pr actice of Law
and Crimin al Law ; (3) Scien ce of
Law and th e Law of Nations.
No l wsn Received
For many reasons the School of
Law was not well received by practicni
g member s of th e bar. First,
The problem is as current as th e
still unr esolved Pillsb ury Mills Case
(FTC Doc ke t o. 600 (1953) and as
old as an eco nomic st ruct ure which
gave us an organism with a mani fest
desir e for profit and a philosophy
demanding growth, ye t one that had
to be curtailed to prevent undue
stifling of competition.
The lack of cases int erpreting th e
new sec tion 7 should prove fertile
ground for controversy over th e intention
of congress in am ending it
in 1950 and th e application of cases
decide d under th e act as it stood
pr eviously.
The Nati onal Moot Court problem
for 1955, alt hough fictional in nature,
will merit clos e attention sin ce some
actua l sui t may soon be b rought
against a "Supe roi l" ( the mock defendant
of th e case) charging a similar
violation of th e Clayton Act.
The next step on the ladder for
th e contes tants is th e competition
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Th e University of Louisville School
of Law will be represented in National
Moot Court Competition by
Shr ad er Mill er , "ameison McP herson
and altern ate Cllrl Fust.
These three students wer e recently
selec ted to represent th e University
by th e "Supreme Court" consisting
of Judge James W. Stites, Honorabl e
Leo Wolford and Law Professor Otis
P. Dobie.
Putting the bridle on bi g bu sin ess
is th e difficult task ass igned th e
National Moot Court Competitors. The
bridle is th e recently amended section
7 of th e Clayton Act , de sign ed to
check monopolies in th eir in ception
and th e "horse" is big business. Ther e
are th ose who would have it applied
loosely in order to give th e "a nimal"
as muc h freedom of movem ent as is
pr act ical. On th e other hand, th er e
are thos e who would bind tightly to
curtail dangerous propensities found
lat ent within th e "beast" by this school
of thought.
THE LOUISVILLE LAWYER --------------------
ALUMNI PORTRAIT
LAWHENCE W. WETHERBY
LAWRENCE W. WETHERBY
Our Appreciation
T he Dean , Faculty and Students of
th e Sch ool of Law express their apprecia
tion to th e following con tributors
to th e 19.54-5.5 Law School Alum ni
Fund wi th assurance that th e entire
fund is being spent for th e advancement
and improveme nt of th e Law
School :
CALIFORNIA-Los Angeles, Edgar S i mrn:
Oakland, Tom J ohnson; River sid
e, Edwa rd Q. Showers.
INDIANA- Brownstown. Bru ce Marke
l , Jr .: Jas!ler. Arthu r Nordhoff; J ~f f~r snnvUle.
J o n a s G. Howa rd. George
Kopp, George Leaf ; I., di"na.,olis. Freder
ick B. Robinson; New Albany, J o h n
J . McCarthy. J . Har ry Lee, J r .
KENTUCKY-Anchorage, Finley F.
Gibson, J r .; Ashland, Th omas Burh ett,
Jr. Ha rold E. Kelley, G. B. Johnson, Jr.;
Bowling Gree n, Maxey B. Harlin, Thos .
W. Hines, Paul R. Huddlest on , Cha rl es
H. Reyn olds , August Wink enhofer . J r. ;
Brandenburg, Robert C. J ackson;
Brooks, C. Sand ers ; Campbellsville ,
George O. Bertram; Cecil'a. David D.
J a rrett ; Covington, J ames L. Cobb, J r .;
Elizabethtown, Robert Hubbard ; Hazar d,
C. A. Noble, J r .; Hopk'nsvi1'e. S. Y.
Trimble IV; Lexing'o"-. E. J . Stahr . J r. ;
Louisville. Cha rles M. Allen, Raloh M.
Alle n, Eilbur S. Ball. s-.. Thomas A.
Ball antine, J r ., William D. Becker ,
Stanley Benovit z, R. F. Bossmeyer,
Mars ha ll Bensing er Freeman Blackwell,
Herbert F. Boehl , Daniel B. Boone,
Morris B. Borowit z, Br uce Bren nan,
Ne v rlle S. Bullitt, F W. Burk e, Thomas
W Burks, Henry J. Burt , J r ., David
Cates, J . Matt Chilto n, Edwin L. Cohen .
Harry V. Davis, J r ., John J . Davis,
J r .,G. Phillip Deeb, Sr ., Arthur J .
Deindoerfer , Frank J . Dougherty, Jr..
Harland W. Downa rd, Rich a rd L. Drye,
Marvin Duffey, Jr. , Charles E . Duncan
, Guy Ellis, Edward T. Ewen, J r ..
(Cont inue d on P a ge 4)
Law-Science Foundation
Sponsor ing
Medical-Legal Seminar
On Monday, November 2 1st, classes
at th e Sch ool of Law will be dismissed
to ena ble students to attend a program
sponsored by th e Lou isvill e
Law-Science Fou ndat ion. The Foundati
on is flying in thr ee em inent
physicians from Boston to be pr esent
among th e many ot he r di st inguish ed
figures of both th e legal and th e medica
l professions wh o will be ther e. A
banque ; will be one of the highlights
of th e day-lon g program .
o
Governor Lawr ence \Y. Wetherby th roug hout his outstan ding
ca reer as one of th e sta te's leading attorneys and politicians, has
been a credi t to the Univ er sity of Lou isville Law Scho ol worthy of
THE LOUISVILLE LAWYER'S first "Alumni Portrait."
The son of a coun try doct or, Governor \Vetherby was born in
Mid dletown, Kentucky in 190 8.
After gra d ua ting from Anch orage
High School, Govern or \Vether by entered
the University of Lou isvill e.
Heceiving his Ll.B . in 1929, h e p ra cticed
law in Lo uisville u ntil 1950.
From 1933 unt il 1937 Governor
Wet herby served as attorney for the
Jefferson County Jn ve nil e Co ur t and
as judge of that court from 1943 to
1947.
Serving as Kent ucky's Lieuten an t
Go vernor from 1947 until 1950, he
succeeded Earl e Clem ents as Chief
Execut ive of th e Commonwealth of
Kentuckv in 1950. He was re-elected
to that pos ition in November , 1951.
In 1930, Wetherbv ma rri ed Helen
Dwyer. They have' th ree chi ldre n,
Lawrence \ \T., Jr. , Barbara and Su za
nne and reside at Anchorage, Ken tuck
y.
As a Kentucki an, Governor Wether bv
has been keenl v interest ed in the
Commonwealth. As an ac tive Democra
t, he se rve d as Secretary of th e
Democra tic St at e Central Executive
Committee until he became Governor.
From 1944 through 1946 he serve d
as Jefferson Conntv Chai rma n of th e
War Fund Drive. • He also has been
ac tive in Kentucky Young Democratic
Circles.
An ac tive memb er of the Lo uisville
and Ke nt ucky Bar Associutons. Governor
Law rence \ V. Weth erb y ha s
been a cre dit to th e law profession ,
his state and his co untry .
o
LAW-MED
MOOT COURT CASE
On Novem ber 28, 1955 th e School
of Law Moot Court Club, in coniunction
wi th th e Unive rsity of Lou isvill e
Med ical School, will stage a med ical
malp ra ctic e case. The tri al will be
held a t th e Gen eral Hosp ital Amphitheatre
at 11 a.m. Plaintiff's att or neys
will be Tom Ga tes and John
Stout, and counsel for defend ant will
be Gene Ilerde an d Harry Lee Meyer ,
Two
Pu blished by the University of Louisville School of Law Student Ba r Associatio
n four times a yea r for School of Law students, faculty and alumni.
The first issue of THE Lo I YILLE LAWYER ma rks another ste p
forward for our chool of Law and th e Louisville Bar.
Gradua tes of th e niv ersi tv of Louisville Sch ool of Law, and
th e Jefferson chool of Law, thelat ter ha\'ing been merged with the
former in 1950, comprise the largest percentage of th e local bar and
a substantial portion of the Kent ucky bar. In addition to a need long
existent at the Law School for a student publication, there has
existed a need for some manner of disseminating news of the school
to its 1500 alumni. Tun LOUISVILLE LAWYER was founded with such
needs in mind an d will accomplish th ese purposes.
In additio n to informing students, faculty and alum ni of schoo l
news, th e new publicati on will feature in each issu e, among other
th ings, a law review ar ticle writte n by an ou tstanding professor or
member of the bench or bar, an article spotlighting one of our
many ou tstand ing alum ni. and an ed itor ial column wh ich will voic e
the Publicat ion Board's feelings concern ing controversial issues of
inter est to the reader s.
THE LOUI \'ILLE LAWYER will be mailed to our many alumni and
distributed among th e students and fac ulty at th e schoo l free of
charge. Presen t plans call for the publica tion to be issued four times
durinz th e reguiar nin e-month school year.
Among the main objectives th e Publication Board hopes and
expects the present publicati on to giv e rise to are ( 1) to foster and
maintain a clos er relat ionsh ip between th e school an d the alumni,
and (2) to eventually see a full-fledged law review emanate from
the school.
THE Lo ISVILLE LAWYER is earnestlv devote d to the real iza tion
of these and many other worthwhile purp oses which it can achieve.
STAFF Of The New Law School Pubfic a tion are L. to R. Waller .
Mr. Peden. Revell. Suell. Stou t and Gates
1Ebttnrtttl
Editor-in -Chief JOHN E. STOUT
,\[arwging Editor RAnlOND S UE LL
Feature Edito r LoUI S \ V AL L EH
Ne lCS Editor TH01\IAS E. GAT ES
Associate Edito rs SHHADEH M IL LEH
R ICHAHD A. R EVEL L
Facult y Adviser \ V I LL IA1\1 B. P ED EN
Qll1r 1.Gout.auillr 1.Gu1Uyrr
THE L OUI SVILLE LAWYER Thr ee
When Is An I Accidentl
An ACCIDENT?
By Ot :s P. Dob ie
Fac tual situations running the
sc ale of human folly or misha p often
to th e point of high come dy, and the
ensu ing mental antic s of hard-pr essed
judges, mak e th e ques t ion of What
is an Acci dent in Insurance law a
lively one.
Two lega l doctrines on th e sub jec t
ha ve developed. The earlie r and probably
still th e pr evailing one 1 is th e
Distinction between Accident Results
and Accidentlil Means doctrine, suc-cessfully
pr essed
upon th e cour ts
by th e cO:1Ipa nies,
Referr ing to
th e usu al policy
clau se of injury
from "ex te rnal,
violent, acc idental
mea ns, th e '
companies conten
ded th ev did
not inte nd to insure th e i~sured
against un exp ect ed , accidenta l results
of a course of conduc t intention ally
embar ked upon, but only agains t
injury wh er e an outside, ali en to th e
co urse of conduct for ce of catastrophic
imp ac t int erven ed to be th e means
of injury . Th e innocent st reet stroller
injured by a sudden sw ift explosion,
huildin3 colla pse , fir e or bullet.
Though this d octrine became th e
esta blishe d one, it immed iately came
under criticism as too favorable to
th e companies, and courts began qualifying
its operation in various ways.
In Purum'il v. Mllner.» in which insured's
applied lotion ignited as he
was shav ing over a hot kitchen stove,
the cour t found th e requisit e inter vening
alien for ce in th e fact of combust
ion of th e loti on . In case s wh er e
- insur ed is injured from-food -or -medi cine
normally tak en , th e co urts have
fou n:1 th e requisit e inte rve ning alien
force in th e food or medicine th emse
lves.e
The ot her develop ed do ctrine, th e
Fo rseeuhilitv Doctrine, received its
boost from 'Cardozo J. wh o diss ented
in th e landmark Landress cas e.! He
flayed th e pr evailing Hesult-Meuns
doctrine not only as having becom e
confusi ng ly refined bu t stating a too
res tric tive conce pt of Accident; that
the average ins ured an d th e puhlic
r egarded unforeseen results inten,
tion al conduc t as Accident ; th a t the
,le>ira ble do ctrine should be tha t of
Foreseeab ility of t he Reasonable Man.
Som e courts ha ve expressly adopted
th is do ctrine, and it is th e seeming
trend. But most courts -refuse to expr
essly repudiate the old er doctrine,
ap par ently saving it for suitable cas es,
but <Jualifying its operation, as pr eviou
sly sugg est ed . Th e Foreseeability
Doctrine, too, has its critics who fear
th at , wh en alli ed to th e well-known
tendency of courts and juri es to favor
th e insured, it will deg en erate into
unwise sentime nta lity forgetful of th e
fa ct that it is th e othe r policyh older s
and not th e Company that pay bonuses
to th e careless. r. Relevant her e is
th e atti tude expressed in Cross v.
Zuri chv that th e Foreseeability of Insu
ra nc e law is a mor e len ient standard
th an th at of Tort law , because insured
has bought and paid for some thing ,
namely, th e right to some deviation
from th e Tort standard.
Doubtless, th e cour ts, under eithe r
do ctrine, try to curb recov ery by
unreasonab ly imprudent insureds, but
have difficulty ( a) in appraising th e
reasonablen ess of cond uc t in border linecllses,
and ( b) in resisting th e
appeal of th e . Insure rl himse-lf, with
his injury on di spl ay, an d, even more,
of th e dep end ents, also wistfully di spla
yed.
Some cases ar e fairl y easy. E. g. , th e
"agre ssor" insured wh o provok es injury
by anothe r " ( eve n here factor
( b), just mentioned , may cloud th e
issue ) ; or th e rather clearly negli gent
or imprudent insured." Her e again,
ce rta in insured types or act ions under
highly strained co ndit ions ma y give
tr ouble. In Fagan v. Pacific Mutual ,
th e Kentucky court allowed recover y
to a teen-age boy injured by playing
Russian Bou lette most care les sly . In
Travellers v. Bell.n recov ery was allow
ed a near-sighted household er who
sho t him self with his own gu~ w hile
sta lking a midnig ht in trud er. t ;
A recent Georgia case l 2 neatlyrefleets
the nuisances of the respective
doctrines. There insured fell asl eep
on th e sea t of a pickup truck. His
nose caught in the se at cre vice . Th e
cour t allowed reco very, under th e
Foreseeability doctrine. Try this on
yo ur piano to th e tune of th e other
doctrine.
Closin g'wi tlr an i nte re sting-case. In
Canadian Radium v. Industrq Ass llrarlce,
l:l insured gra d ua lly over a per iod
of months inhaled a dan gerous
accumula tion of radioactive particles.
Th e lower cour t d en yin g reco very,
rea son ed that no ali en interven ing
for ce had be en found , but further ,
th at it could not regard this protracted
in tim e and causation injury as
insurance accident and could not
think th e public so regarded it . What
would Ca rdozo say? The appellate
court, reve rsing , strategically fe ll back
upon th e doctrine th at policy terms,
incl ud ing "Accident". be construed
favorably to th e insure d. Recent ly, on
the authority of this ca se, recovery
was allowed a wife who gra d ually in hal
ed a dangerous accumulation of
fin e ' met al filin gs, while laundering
her hu sband's .overalls.U
On e sometimes hears the opinion
expres sed that the Companies are to
bla me for the situation , as th eir huck-stering
excesses hav e cre a ted th e genera
l idea that th eir policies protect
insureds against all con ceivable contin
gencies.
rn 31 :\0. Carolina L a w It e vtew 319 (l9:i2)
( ~) L>8 S \\' (~ ) ~ 2 9 ( K)'. 1 9 ~ G )
(3) P eop les v. :\h,'nnrd , 117 X I-;(2) 376 ( I nd .
195-1 )
(4 ) ~9 1 T:S 19 1 (1931)
(;) 33 Corne ll Law Quar t er ly 360 ( 1!).IS)
(G) 181 F ( 2 ) G09 (19;; 0: III. law )
(7 ) Es ninoza v. Equit able. 1 0 :~ XI~ ( 2) u n
t Il l. 191 ) : Zuli skt.,), v, P ru dent inI, 48
A ( :?l 1,11 ( Pa Ifl-Hll
(S) Shi e lds v. P ru den t iul , 79 .A (2) 2!li ( X .T
195 1)
(fl) :\lut 11 1\1 I nd eunri ty Y. Iuaut on . 206 R\V ( 2)
70 {Kv. I flH ) : :7. l11i ~ k e)' v. Pruden ti a l,
48 A (:n LIt ( Pa , 1!l4R)
( 10) 166 S \V ( 2 l 100i ( K y . I fl42) . Til e Oeor ~
i a Conrt, 0 11 simila r fnr-tx, dl 'n ied Tflcorcrv
i n ' 1'11 () IllP ~ 0I 1 v. Prud en t.iu1, r,r,
S E (:n un ( f:a. 1!1!il ) . Til t ile F ugun
cnse. t h e Keu t u r-ky Co u r t rej ected a
nroffererl lu st rur -t ion of t he Co mpany
ba sed sq ua re ly 0 11 the Ar-r-iden t Ht>su lt sAr-
cid en ts l :\Ieall s dr x-trine, awl approved
one t o th e effect that : for the .iur.r t o
fhnl lha t the dea t h Was a ttected t hro ugh
" Acciden t a t :\1('3118" . t hey must. find t hat
ill t he ar-t Ilfl't'('c1 inJt in jury so met h ing
u ufo ..t'Sl·t'1i Of un ev per-t ed or unusu a l occu
red whtr-h prod uce d t he Inj ury. 'Thi s
would seem t o rep res en t somet hing of a
co m-prom ise heh H'('n the two doct r -ines.
However , in t h e la ter u ta nt ou ease. n ot e
!) above, the r-ourt st>t' mi ll~h upplled the
olde r dr x-tr-ine , while in a r ecent case, it s
lan gu ag e sl'{'rning b' echoes Cardozo See
Trav ellers v, wui. :?60 :-;" " (2 ) nn ( K)",
19:i :i )
( ll) HiS F ( :?) ;:?:i (l!l:i l : F'la . law)
(t:?l " "ley v. F a III ib ' Fund , i 6 XF. (:! ) ; 33 (Ga,
1953)
(13) 9, X E (2 ) 132 (111. 19;;1 ) . 101 X E ( ~ ) 2;;0
(Ill, HIS:?)
(t4) :!:!:~ 1"'( 2 ) il (tll:i5: P a . la w} B erx ll tum
v, Amcr-k-a n :\l u t u<\1.
U of L LAW SCHOOL
(Ccntinued f rorn P age 1)
tain, JUt this was th e problem fac ed
by law schools throughout th e country.
Not until th e American Bar Association
demanded ce rta in minimum
academic standards did the Law
School b ecom e a sound institution.
By th e mid 1930's, howev er , th e
faculty was comp osed almost entire ly
of full tim e professors. It had or ganized
a lib r 'l r v of its O'Nn,
and th ereby avoided th e troublesome
necessity of having to us e th e publjc
law library. It began to require one,
two and fin ally three years of pr elegal
co llege study before admission
was possibl e . It extended its own pr o)!
ram to three full academic years; at
thi s point, one mu st comple te six
academic years of study to qualify
for a law d egr ee.
In its comparatively long history,
th e School of Law has attracted many
fri ends, who have contributed in various
ways to its su ccess . Probably
the most pre eminen t friend, howev er,
was the lat e Louis D. Brandeis,
Ju sti ce of th e United Sta tes Su preme
Co urt.
Inter es t In U of L
Through his friends and family
living in Louisville, he developed an
int er est in th e Universitv of Louisvill
e which grew progre~siv ely u ntil
his death in 1941. Mr . Brandeis was
most in ter ested in th e library of the
University and in th e Law School,
and to both he contrib ute d ge ne rously
of his time, efforts and finances.
His view of legal education was
that on e oug h t to study in th e state in
wh ich one intends to practice. In
letter s to his brother , Alfred, he su gge
sted th at , althoug h it is not Iin an ,
ciall y advantageous to study law in a
sta te school, it is more d esirable for
reason s of specialize d training in sta te
law.
Supreme Court Case s
He exercis ed hi s influen ce in obtaining
for th e Law Library the hri efs
and records of U.S. Supreme Court
cas es. Th ese bri efs wer e not available
at all, un less a Suprem e Cour t
jus tic e would send his b riefs to a
school of his choice. Brandeis persuaded
th e la te Justice Roberts to
send his hrief s to ' U of L, although
Roh erts had originally promised ' to
send th em to th e University of Chicago
School of Law.
These hr iefs are invaluable for
scholarlv research, and th eir rarity
is suggestive of th eir importance.
Brandeis contrhiuted $1000 to hav e
th e first volumes bound, and for a
number of years he paid $50 per ye ar
to cra te and ship th em to th e Univer
sit y. Th e Law Library still receives
th ese briefs.
Donated Entire Lbirary
Upon his death, Mr . Justice Brandeis
bequeathed his entire lib rary to th e
Universi ty , as we ll as his personal
cor re sponde nce. His files or' cor responden
ce are cur re ntly housed in a
roo-n in t" e Law Schoo l b uildi ng .
Bra ndeis d ied in 1941 and hi s wife
in 1945. Both were cremated, and
their urn s lie under the portico of
the Law Schoo l, marked by very
simple marble tablets.
In 1938, th e new Law School building
on Belknap Campus was compl
et ed. Its ar chitecture is Georgian,
and was th en viewed as th e fir st of
many Universi ty huildings to be construc
te d in that tenor , accord in c: i.o
an expansion plan for th e Unive rsity
by th e not ed Han s Larson.
Currently th e School of Law has
nin e full tim e professors. It has
more than 1500 gra d uate s, practi cing
throughout th e nation.
Merger
In 1950, the U of L Law School
merged with the old "efferson School
of Law. This hecaome th e p art
tim e division of the Law School and
holds class es on ly in th e ev en ings.
Fo ur years are required for j!raduation
from the part time divisio n.
T he Law Schoo l co un ts many loca
lly and na tionally promine nt ' lawyers
among its j!raduates , including
th e present Gov ernor of Ken tucky.
In 1846 the schoo l began with 37
students who studied for one year.
Curren tly th ere are 163 stu dents, 9 1
in the fu ll tim e and 72 in the part
tim e division , who study for three
and four years resp ectively.
THE LOUISVILLE LAWYER
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
SWING INTO ACTION
Our Appreciation
by his own design place th e sta kes
so high as did thi s young attorney,
but hist ory is mad e of fool s th e ca liber
of Sp en cer Donovan.
As Donovan becom es in cr easingly
entang lcd in this self-made web he
sees his fri ends' trust vanish, his colleagu
es' confiden ce melt, and his girl's
love turn to pity. With a growing
sense of terror he feels th e mali gnan
cy of th e for ce he is fighting-the
same force that drove his admire d
Ir.en d to suic ide.
This is a very sig nificant novel
whic h will keep th e rea der ten se
through out. The author has done a
remarkably fin e job in bringing to
life the realities of this era .
CrllO- F ai r b or n, G v .l:clvu n, 7 .)'~Ci .
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TENNESSEE-Donelson. Jordon Antl e .
TEXAS-Arkansas Pass. Conn B r ow n .
VIRGINIA-Arlington. John P a t e .
HAWAII-Hon o lulu. Leslie T. Ben-nett.
J ames E F ahey , F . W. F inger. Sr .,
William J. F r ancis. I r v ing 1. Friedman.
Al J . Fuen f e r, Ll oyd W. Gates ,
J . R. Gathright, J ohn G eorge, Marvin
Gold. F red M. Goldber g. Norma n Goldber
g. P a t r ick E. Go rma n . Hel e n R.
Gr a f t, James M. Gr a ves , Don ald E.
Groot, W. L. Grubbs , Robert J . Hagan.
He rman G . Handmake r . Kennedy
Hel m. J r .. Sam C. Helma n . George A.
Hendon. Robe rt L. He rtzrn an , Berna rd
Himmelfa rb, W. Hoe fflin. Ben Ho rton .
J ames A. Hubbs, J ose phine Hugh ett.
He nry J ac ob. Lewis M. Johnson. Lucian
L . J ohnson. Cla ren ce F . Judah. F red
J . Karem, Edward G. Klemm, Fred
C. Koste r . Jr.. Alfred C. Krieger. Alfred
C. Kriege r , Jr.. Stuart E. Lampe ,
J ames B. Lenihan, Charles C Leona rd.
Lawrence S. Leopold, George C. Long.
Edwin J . Lowry. Bryan S Me'Coy , Jr..
Stephen McCoy. John A McCre a .
.tames McC ro ck li n , Sam McMeekin .
Elliott L. Mad d o x , Henri L. Mange ot,
Henry B. Mann. J ames R. Mansfield.
J r ., A. M Marret , Davis Marret . D. P .
Mar'shall , J c h D. Marshall, J r ., W 2 1J a (' ~
C. Mathis. J ames W. Menefee , James
R. Merr itt. E. o. Me rshon. J r .. Edwin
G. Middletown, Le e Cu r d Miller. William
A Miller. B. Hudson Milne r .
Be rwyn Moore, Ben H. Morris , For r
est Moss. Ca rl Ousle y. Jr.. Home r
P a r r ent, J r .. Royden P eabody . W. B.
P eden, Ne lso n P e r ry , William P e r-ry ,
Ralph P e t rilli. Edwa rds M. Quigley .
J oh n W. Render. Tony Rives,Edga r
L. Robbins . AI. Rogers. J ohn P . Rya n .
Felix J. Sande r s. Jr., P a ul Schl a ud
ecke r , Sol Sc hulman. Cy ril C. Se hli
n ger, Le on Seidman. Leon J. Sha ik u n .
Erwin A. Sherman, Gene Sims. Al an
T . Sl y n , J ames U. Smith. J r .. Marvin
Sn yde r, Raymond C. Stephenson. Louis
F Steuerl e . Edwin H. Stie r el e , J oh n
K . Stiles , Edwa rd A. Stone. Marvin
Sotsky , Louis R. Straub, Charl es B.
'I'achau, J ames L . T a ylor, Joe H. T aylor ,
James E. Thornbe rry . Henry Triplett.
Mr . Har ry B. Troutman, Edwin L .
Vardtman, Simon Walden. Max Waldman.
Carl A. Warns. Jr.. Ben F .
Washer. Samuel R. Wells. John R.
Williams, Ernest Woodward II . Theodore
Wurmser Lyndon. J. M. Ryan.
Middlesboro. Thomas Z . Beard. M R
Guthrie, Frank W. Le e . Anderson Wood;
Paducah. Richard Bryan, George R .
Effinge r, David R. Reed. Raymond C.
Schultz.
NEW YORK-Bronxville. Malcolm
Johnson, Newburgh. Dav id O'Koon:
New York. Henry A. Fedora; Syracuse,
J ose ph M. Fttzergald.
NORTH CAROLINA-Ft. Bragg. Edward
L. Smith; Greensboro. J. B. Walte
rs.
"SO HELP ME GOD"
By Felix Jackson
A dramati c novel about an attorney
wh o gambled his future, reputation
and ca reer on th e outcome of a co ngress
iona l investigation of which he
was b oth accuser and accused. Probably
no one in his right. mind would
HUHL NAlvIES
PUBLICATION
RECEIVES AWARD
BOOK REVIEW
One of the many problems co nfronting
th e members of th e Publi cat ion
Board when th ey me t for th e fir st
time a few weeks ago was th e choice
of a name for th e newly fou nded
nublication. A school-wide con tes t was
decided u-on, nam es to be submitted
by the students and the entries to b e
iudced by th e Publication Board.
Dean Ruessell was kind eno ug h to
contrib ute a most handsom e prize to
stimula te stude nt int er est , a se t of
" Kentuc ky Probate Practice and Procedure,"
written b y th e Dean and
Professor Jam es M ~rritt.
Som e sixty names were submitted
by th e students, from which , th e name
THE LOUISVIL1 .": LAWYER was chose n
as th e final selec t ion.
Recipient of th e awa rd for submittin
g th e pri ze-winning nam e was Bill
Ruhe, a new member of th e student
body. Bill , who hail s from East Li ver pool,
O'rio, has recently com pleted a
tour of duty in th e Arm y. He sta rte d
his fr eshman year at Uni ver sit y of
Loui svill e Sch ool of Law th is Septemb
er , an d is curre ntly ga ining first
ha nd expe rience in th e practi ce of
law by work ing part-time for a Loui sville
attorney.
The membe rs of th e Publication
Board have exte nded cong ra tula tions
and th anks to Bill for supplying the
publication with su ch an appropriate
n ame.
BILL RUHE ACCEPTS AWARD
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
MillerI McPherson
and Fust
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in Saint Loui s beginning November
12 in which teams from a number
of sta tes will vie for th e opportunity
to reach th e fin als in New York . We
fee l th at this team has th e ca pa bilities
to go all th e way and we wis h
them th e best of lu ck.
Ne ws about othe r stude nt organizations
such as th e Briefin g Service, th e
Moot Court Club, and th e judicial
Assis1anceshi p Program will be featu
red in thi s column in subsequent
issues.
DELTA THETA PHI
The Henry Clay Sen at e of Delt a
Thet a Phi Law Fraternity was es ta blished
on Oct. 23, 1948, by Dean
A. C. Russell, a prominent member
of Delta Thet a Phi. Chief among t he
aims and pur poses of the Fra te rn ity
are ( 1) to promot e social and p ro[
ession al fr ien dship among law stu dents,
(2) to en courage legal learning,
and (3) throug h fra te rn ity
membe rship provid e co ntact with
lead er s of th e legal , professional , and
business world .
Every month th e fra te rni ty has a
d inn er meeting at which member s of
th e fac ulty, day students, and night
stude nts are pr esent. On November
9, 1955, th e fr at ernity had a ve ry in ter
esting program. Delt a Thet a Ph i
met with th e Phi Chi Medical Fra te rnit
y for a joint dinner mceting a t th e
Kentucky Hotel. Dr. Griswald and
[udge Curtis, prominent member s of
th e Law-Scien ce Foundation wer e th e
principal sp eakers. In add ition to th ese
outstanding men, oth er distinguished
pers onages of th e legal and medical
professions in th e Louisvill e area attended
th e program .
Delt a Thet a Phi is ve ry proud of
its membership at the Unive rsity of
Loui svill e Sch ool of Law . At present,
th e officers are: Vlad Gast evich, Dean;
Dick lIer, Vice-Deall; Jim Ramsey,
T rihu ue; BuJ He ss, T reas urer; Alle n
Adams, Sec retary; Jess Mill er , Bailiff;
and Mik e Stewart, Master of th e
Ritual. T his fall th e Fraternity rece
ived into pledgesh ip twenty new
men, of both day and night schools.
the Chapte r, will be co nfe rre d in th e
Srring.
Ph i Alpha Delta held its ru sh par ty
a t the American Legion, Highl and
Post. We would like to tak e this
opportuni ty to th ank th e alumni who
helped mak e it a most successful
party.
The fir st of th e Fraternity's monthly
ban quets was held at th e Mayflower
Hotel. Plans are now under way for
th e annual Christmas dan ce.
Four
PHI ALPHA DELTA
Th e Vinson Chapter of Ph i Alpha
Delta met and se lecte d its officer s for
th e fall sem est er. They are : Thomas
E. Gat es, justice; John E. Stout, Vi ceju
stice; Neville M. Tuck er, Treasurer;
Hichard M. Rev ell , Clerk; and Melvin
Cundiff, Marshal.
Th e fir st business to b e transact ed
by th e fraternity was to unanimously
l\p prove th e naming of th e Annual
Phi Alpha Delt a Outstanding Fr esh,
man Award th e Richard B. Linton
Awa rd . Recipient of th e award will
be ch osen on th e basis of schola rship,
lead ership and characte r. Th e Linton
Award, named in honor of th e lat e
Rich ard B. Linton, a p ast Ju sti ce of
THE STUDENT BAR
ASSOCIATION
The St udent Bar Assoc ia tion h eld
its election on Oct ob er 5, an d elected
the members of its eight act ion committees,
th e com mittees in turn individuall
y elec ting chairme n. The
eig ht chairm en alo.ng with th e Moot
Co ur t Club Pr esident, th e Chairman
of th e Bri efing Ser vic e, and th e Editorin-
Chief of THE LOUISVILLE LAWYEII
compose th e Executive Committee of
th e S.B .A. On October 11, th e E xecutive
Committee held its elec tion of
officers and th e results wer e : Vladimir
Gast evi ch , Executi ve Clut' rman;
Charl es M. Stewart, Executive Vice
Chairman; Clar en ce E. Powell , n ecorde
r; and Earl O'Bannon , Treasurer.
T he S.B.A. has held two mee tings
so fa r thi s fall , primar ily to effect an
amendment to th e S.B.A. Constituti on .
T he ame nd me nt, whic h was p assed ,
raised th e semes te r dues from one
doll ar to tw o doll ar s. This was done
for th e purpose of ena b ling the S.B.A.
to operate on a larger budget necessita
te d by growing expe nses .
T he annua l S.B.A. Picnic was held
on Oct ob er 30 and turned out to be
a trem endous success. All attend ing
students and th eir gues ts had a wonderful
time and ar e now looking
forward to th e Barrister 's Ball in th e
Spring, which is th e next soci al event
on th e S.B .A. ca lendar. The Soci al
Committee certainly did a fin e joh
in promoting th e picnic and promsies
an eve n better event in th e Spring.
With th e com ing of th e Leg alScien
ce Foundation Day, November
2 1, on which dav th e students will
he excused fron ; classes to attend
th e program, th e Executive Commit tee,
on heh alf of th e entire St ud ent
Bar Assoc ia tion, wi sh es to tak e th is
opportun ity to f'ong r" tlllllte those who
have organized th e progr am of thi s
worthw hile undertaking. We ca ll
upon everyo ne to deri ve th e great
potential i n ben efits availa ble h y
attendi ng and supporting th e program .
