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Show lie was exceedingly staunch and energetic en-ergetic In mating his prepositions to tbe court and to the Jury, he was al" ways full ,f force In all the ari-ments ari-ments that ho used to the court and to tho Jur'. and yet I think he accepted ac-cepted defeat l ttl.i better than most of the gentlemen who practice at the bar Ho never Formed for any length of time nt lonst to retain any bitterness bitter-ness because of defeat, and took up hlg next cause with as much hope and energy aa h had given to the laat. "There Id one characteristic of Judge Maginnis which not only tho members of the bar, but all of us, could well emulate, and that wo his terseness of statement. If you will recall the arguments you have I'sten- It! ASSOCIATION HONORS PMORY OF LATE JURIST Resolutions of Respect to the Memory of the Late Judge Maginnis Presented and Spread on the Minutes of the Second Judicial District Court. Members of the Bar association of the Second Judicial district met at tbe court house yesterday mid pas-Bed pas-Bed resolutions of respect to the memory mem-ory of tho late JudRe W. L. Maginnis and It was decided that the same should be presented, to th Second District court that they might be spread upou the rainufes of tho court. The committeemen who presented the resolutions to the court at 2 p. m., were Judge II. II. Rolapp, Judge John E Bagley and Holla S. Farnworth. The resolutions follow: Judge Rolapp Presents Resolutions. In presenting the resolutions to the court JudRO II. II. Rolapp said: "May It please your honor: The state of Utah has lost one or its prominent prom-inent citizens, the Bar association has lost one of its valued members, and Ogden City has lost one of the pioneers and master builders of Its present srreatness and of Its future destiny, for that matter. "Judge V. L. Maginnla is dead. Tor twenty years these walls have witnessed witnes-sed the results of hws uutlring efforts. For j our honor and your predecessors upon tho bench have been enabled to meto out etjual anl exact justice o the people of this community largely by the assistance of that great lawyer For twenty years we.his bre thren, have admired bis valiant defense of the rights of those whose cause he undertook under-took to espouse, and we have noticed his clear analysis of the facts and his great knowledge of law. For twenty years we have learned to love Judge Maginnis because of the stal-wartness stal-wartness of his heart and because of tho love that ho had for his profession and because of the fact that he was i members of his profession for alncer-est alncer-est respect 'Resolved, That thcrfe resolutions he presenied to the Courts, with tho request that they bo entered upon the records, and that the Clerk be directed di-rected to send to the widow and the family of our deceased brother an engrossed en-grossed copy hereof as a testimonial of our sympathy to them In the loss ! -.- have been called upon to bus- ' tain. "A. R. HEY WOOD, "J. D. MURPHY, "J. II PK VINE, "J. 15. M'CRACKEN, "A. E. PRATT." "Now, If your honor please, I move, I that your honor rc-quest the clerk to spread thfse it-solutions upon the min-uiea min-uiea of this comt, where Judge Maginnis Magin-nis did most of his work, and that your honor w'U Indulge the members of this bar in listening to some remarks re-marks from them, regarding the usefulness use-fulness of o.ir departed brother, our tlepnrtt-d brother The Court: The court will be very glad Injeert n hoar from any other rr.o'ubers of the bar who desln to address ad-dress tho court upon this subject. The lolloping members of the bar responded: Messrs. C. C. Richards, ; J. E. Bagley, T. D. Johnson. J. H. De Vine. A. G. Horn and R. S- Farns-: Farns-: v.orth. , The Order of the Court. Judge J. A. Howell 'n ordcilng the resolutions spread upon the minutes . of the court said: "If then are no other members of the bar who desire to address the court at this time, the .court will say that very willingly does It accede to the wishes of the Bar association, as expressed by Judge Rolapp and this committee, that these resolutions shall be spread upon the minutes of this court and that the clerk be in- i structed to snd cop'es of them to the 1 family of tho deceased. I "There S3 little that I can add to what has already b?en so well said . hy the associates of Judge Maglnuls ' nt the bar. "Unfortunately, of course, for me. ' I never knew him as an associate at ' tho bar. When I first began my feeble fee-ble duties here In my profession, ho I was at the bead of the profession and . I looked upon him with awe rather I than with any other (feeling. I re- I member finite dlsfnctlv tho first time cd to made in this court by Judge Maginnis. Ma-ginnis. an l in mv Judgment some of the ablest arguments that have ben made here, at least fdnee my advent here, wrro made by him. you will re-inembr-r they were n'-ver very lengthy, that be never Indulged In , repetition, but seizing the point in Issue h so clearly and precisely placed It before the court and the jury that It was not necessary to repeat It in order to be sure that It reached either the lay mind of the Jury or the professional mlni of the. Judge. "It was not the habit of Judge Maginnis Ma-ginnis to prepare his cases with the same palnstnklng care aJ some other lawyers, but once engaged in the trial of a case he excelled all his brethren in his alertness to seize the opportunity. opportun-ity. In his quickness of perception, In his ability to seize hold of the advantage advant-age and make It Inure to the benelit of his cause. "I think, too, it In pleasant to remember re-member that Judge Maginnis advocated advocat-ed the cause of the unfortunate in the court room perhaps a tittle mo:c willingly wil-lingly than the cause of any one else. As has been remarked here and as of course we all know, his cases were vory often cases of Injury to the person per-son of his client, and he was peculiarly peculiar-ly fitted apparently for presenting that class of a case to the court. He seemed seem-ed more at home when he was pleading plead-ing for some poor, nelp'.ess widow, whose husband had been killed, or pleading for some 'unfortunate who himself had been maimed, than he was on the opposite side. "This was doubtless but one of the many exhibitions of his natural love of humanity, which characterized not only his conduct here In the court room but In the world outside. "All of you remember of course how kindly ami how generous ho was In this court room, I cannot recall a single instance In which he was ever discourteous either to his associates or to witnesses or to the court Itself. Toward the court itself be had something some-thing of that old courtly hearing, which is perhaps not so characteristic of the younger men as it lg of the older men in the profession. I cm in my mind's eye see Judge Mnginuis entering tho court room and finding the court in session and so hastily removing his hat that the very act Itself denoted the veneration he had for the tribunal which he was ntering. Not that there was anything solemn about him as he conducted his case. On the contra- ever a gentleman. Ever ready to work In the interests of his clients, yet he was always courteous to the court and to opposing counsel and to witnesses, wit-nesses, and I don't think there ever was a provocation so groat as to entice en-tice Judge Maginnis to forget that he was an ofllcer of this court and to Bet with that genial, courteous t ruth-fulness ruth-fulness which was a distinctive characteristic char-acteristic of Judgp Maginnis. I don't think there ever was a court that he willfully or even (incautiously misled mis-led as to the principles cf the law or a Jury that he mislead as to any facts. To the younger members ho was a leader and an exemplar, especially I member quite dlsfnctly the first time i I ever met Judge Maginnis. I was ! simply seivlng a paper upon him as a , clerk in Mr. I ley wood's office, but I 1 shall never forget, while I went about It as If I were about to appear In court , Instead of simply serving a paper en an attorney, because of course I had i learned te know the reputation of Judge Maginnis as a judge, yet when I entered his office, he was silting In that careless way tnat ho had and he was no genial and so courteous and kindly to me, as he was to all who I were jnt commencing their life's work In the law that I never forgot It I and loved him ever after, j "Very soon thereafter I became a judge nnd since then the relationship between Judge Maginnis and myself has been that of the judge of a court and one of the attorneys practicing at the bar, and of course under such circumstauccs it Is not possible that our relationship hhould be so close as it is amongst men wno are engaged in the practice, but at the same time Judge Maginnis, while he always appeared ap-peared In court with tho utmost re-Fpeet re-Fpeet and deference to the court, was nevertheless not one of those who was constrained at all in the presence of a judge off the bench and he very freely made use of mv chambers as many of the other members of the bar do and there we had very many pleasant conversations together. I can say this for Judge Mag nnis, that while we discussed, as of course members mem-bers of the same profession naturally do, those matters which thev are nar- ry, he was generally smiling. He seemed to bring Into the court room the very sunshine itself and how dreary as we perform thee sad rites does It now seem without him "Never did I suffer such aneulsh In the court room as 1 did on the few occasions during the last few months when he appeared here. What a pitiful piti-ful spectacle It was to see the ravagos of disease eating away tho body that enclosed such a gigantx intellect and such a noblo soul How pathetic it was to see his inability to express In words bis thoughts, which were still as clear as crystal, for his mind continued con-tinued as alert anil energetic as ever. Yet, from the patience, uncomplaining and unassuming, which he displayed, from his hopefulness, boundless and supreme, which be showed in the midst of all his pain, what a lesson we all may learn. "I did not know him so well out of the court room as within it. socially I met him little, and of his church work nothing at all. Yet seeing him In the performance of his every day duties. I came to realize that he was In all his actioas governed by a nobility of purpose which coulo only spring from an intense respect for and veneration' of the great Creator or us all and from an abiding faith In and love for his fellow man ' Besides taking the action requested of me. It is ordered that as a further mark of respect this court stand adjourned ad-journed for the term." to those who took up the profession for th6 love of it and for the good It might do mankind, and lo the older lawyers he wa3 not only our peer, but he was one to whose thoughts nnd ideas was always glveu the utmost heed and the greatest consideration. So we feel that a great man has left us. a man we could not well spare. In pusiiancc of that feeling the Pas association asso-ciation metlK-re this morning and passed resolutions in memory of their , brother who had passed away, and j we now present to this court the res- elulions passed by the association for 1 ofllclal recognition by your honor, and with your honors permission I will I read these resolutions: - "We, the committee heretofore appointed ap-pointed by Hie president of the Bar association of thVs Second Judicial district to draft resolutions on the death of a former member of this as-1 social ion, como now and present our; resolutions as follows, to-wii: William L. Maginnis was born at Somerset, in the State of Ohio, on the Ith da of November, IS.'.S; he spent his boyhood in the State of Ohio, where he studied law, at the age of twenty-erne years. He there practiced his profession, to which he devoted all his energies and ability, until tho possibility of a more extended tield of usefulness presented itself in the far west, which induced him to leave his native state; he went to Colorado where, for a time, he engaged In news, paper work. On October 1 2 1 h , 1SS, ho was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme court of the Territory or Wyoming, by President Cleveland, and immediately thereafter he took the oath of office and entered upon the discharge of his duties. He con-tlnued con-tlnued a member of tbe court until the expiration of his term of four years. After bs retirement from the Territorial bench or Wyoming, he eamo to Ogden, Utah, in lSrm, and engaged en-gaged in the active practice of his profession, and, dining iho second administration of President Cleveland, he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney of the then first judicial district. While Judge Maginnis held no official relation to the courts of this State since their creation, jet, during all the period, he has practiced before tho bar or almost al-most every court in this and surrounding surround-ing slates. Hli activities covered at ' most every department of the law, His intellectual vigor, alertness of mind.! ticularly Interested In and relating to their own profession, et never once did Judge Maginnis overstep the bounds and seek in any wise to Influence Influ-ence me as Judge of the court In any cu,?c which was pending before me. and I think he deserved great credit lor that, because It Is very few men who can appear In a Judge's chambers cham-bers and not Indirectly, unconsciously, unconscious-ly, no doubt, make some suggestion which is not exactly proper, yet Judge Maclnnis was absolutely free from anything of that sort, so far as I have ever observed. Concerning his conduct In the court room 1 can endorse en-dorse all that has been said of him 1 do not believe he ever appeared before be-fore the court and advocated a proposition propo-sition of law that he did not bellevo was right. I do not believe that be ever made a statement of fact to the court that he did not believe was true. I and great natural powers, faithfully I disciplined and completely developed.! expanded bv large acquirements, kept vigorous and alert by strenuous exer-1 else, applied o noble uses, marked his long und conspicuous career In his profession His faculty for lucid statement and cogent reasoning was ever brought by him lo the support I of his ever- cause Therefore be It "Resolved, That In the special quail-ties quail-ties which mark him as a consummate forensic advocate and lawyer, the structure or Judge Maginnis's mind and Its discipline combined the widest wid-est and most circumspect comprehension comprehen-sion of nil facts of legal Import; however how-ever multitudinous: a luminous and penetrating Insight into the Intricacies Intricac-ies and obscurities of the most complex com-plex relations; and a power of reason, which produced the manv admirable exhibitions of his faculties at the bar and on the bench, which, during all of his legal career, have served in the administration of justice and attracted the attention of the profession and of the public. "Resolved, That we commemorate with no loss satisfaction the moral nualitieB which lllusiraled the whole1 professional service of our deceased brother his Justice to all, his kindness kind-ness to his associates, his fidelity to the courts and to the law. his scrupulous scrupu-lous contribution of his best powers and his complete attention to every caiipe whose advocacy he assumed his fidelity to society, 'the government, to religion, to truth bis singleness of purpose aud devatlon of spirit lu which he d scharged all thv. duties of hie profession pro-fession all these traits, as the rule of his Wo. wo preseut to tho lhias |