Show HOW TAFT WROTE DECISIONS To appreciate the thoroughness and industry with t which Jud Judge o Taft worked you should houll know how bow ho wrote his de de- tie First Firt ho studied the case thoroughly tho tho- roughly until ho was an authority on on tho particular law la-c-c- involved its origin growth and application Then without a note noto before him he be be began an dictating to lo his hie secretary and frequently kept at atit atit atit it until late into tho the night After stating slating the tho facts ho he would comment on the cas b by it iti logical divi vj- vj 6 lon Completing a u. division he noted references and precedents He would tell ten his secretary to copy eap from a a. certain volume of reports report at fit a a. certain ertan pS page e and para paragraph This ThiR was tho the only time timo he made u use uso e of notes noteL But ho bl had bad well in mind the tho substance of such quoted passages passa pas pas- sa sages rages and constantly referred to them during dictation without a note before him hini When all the divisions of tho the case caRe had bad been disposed of in in their order ho lie would then formulate hi his opinion and aud this was Tras a clear a clear a delightfully clear clear clear- deduction from what had bad gone gono ono before His thinking was as so 80 dear clear indeed and his bis grasp rasp on tho train of ideas so 80 firm that he could be interrupted in the tho middie middle mid mid- die dle of a a. sentence talk laugh lauh or joke jok and afterward go o on as evenly as thou though h there thore had bad been no interruption Or if it the secretary himself stopped him bm being uncertain of a passage e the ju judge go would go o back and dictate 3 again ain word for word what ho he had bar dictated before Jud Judge o Taft was mi mightily hard pressed If ho he closed himself against Usually h ho worked with hi his door open pen though h other judges wondered at aL him an ant and anyone might break in on him and be bo received cheerily as though the had nothing else in the tho world to todo todo todo do but to tell jolly stories He was particularly particular kind kinc to students in the law school and ho he could always find time to help with any any hard legal al knots they brought to him Worlds World's Work for September |