Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1896, for the State of Iowa,

BY W. M. MCFARLAND, SECRETARY OF STATE,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

Rec. Dec. 18, 1876.

JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

CHARLES T. GRANGER, WAUKON, Chief Justice.

JOSIAH GIVEN, DES MOINES.

JAMES H. ROTHROCK, CEDAR RAPIDS.
L. G. KINNE, DES MOINES.

GIFFORD S. ROBINSON, SIOUX CITY.
H. E. DEEMER, RED OAK.

OFFICERS OF THE COURT.

JOHN Y. STONE, GLENWOOD, Attorney General.
GILBERT B. PRAY, WEBSTER CITY, Clerk.

BENJ. I. SALINGER, MANNING, Reporter.

JUDGES OF THE COURTS

FROM WHICH APPEALS MAY BE TAKEN TO THE SUPREME COURT.

DISTRICT COURTS.

First District-HENRY BANK, JR., 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; JOHN A. STOREY,
Greenfield; 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. STEVEN, SON, WM. 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; WM. B. QUARTON, Algona.
Fifteenth District—A. B. THORNELL, Sidney; WALTER I. SMITH, Council
Bluffs; N. W. MACY, Harlan; W. R. GREEN, Audubon.

Sixteenth District-S. M. ELLWOOD, Sac City; Z. A. CHURCH, Jefferson.
Seventeenth District-GEORGE W. BURNHAM, Vinton.

Eighteenth District-WILLIAM P. WOLF, Tipton; WILLIAM G. THOMPSON,
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-JOSEPH C. BURKE.

IN MEMORIAM.

THOMAS S. WRIGHT.

On the twenty-seventh day of July, 1894, Thomas S. Wright, for many years a leading member of the bar of the supreme court, died while in New York City.

At the October term, 1894, the court having designated the twenty-second day of October for the presentation of resolutions to the memory of the deceased, the following resolutions, passed by the members of the Polk county bar, were read and spread upon the records of the supreme court:

The members of the bar of Polk county, Iowa, assembled in honor of the memory of our deceased brother, Thomas S. Wright, desiring to express the sense of loss we feel and our sympathy for the family of the deceased, hereby adopt the following memorial in perpetuation of the many talents and virtues of our brother, and ask the honorable district court of Iowa, in and for Polk county, to order the same spread upon its record.

The members of the bar of Polk county, in the sudden death of Thomas S. Wright, are called to mourn the loss of one of its number who, a native of this state, has in the half century of his life in our midst achieved such honor and distinction by virtue of his own merits, that we recognize in him one of the great and distinguished lawyers of our state and nation, and now desire to record our sense of the loss which has come to us and the profession at large in his death.

Born to a pioneer family, educated in the early schools of this commonwealth, coming to manhood and maturity of thought and years when great national problems were to be settled, and the jurisprudence of his native state was to be established along the new lines which sprang from its rapid development and growth, it is only just to say of him that few of his profession more than he have been as influential in creating and moulding our state jurisprudence in its present high character, in the past quarter of a century.

In his achievements it was given to him to move and persuade, and herein he always performed his duty with such fidelity and consummate ability that he spoke with the force and weight of one in authority.

He honored his profession and this in turn honored him.

Though a man of great natural ability, his genius was supplemented in everything with the special preparation which only comes from careful reflection, discriminating study, and unremitting toil.

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