PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BAR ASSOCIATION OF TENNESSEE,

AT THE

TENTH ANNUAL SESSION,

HELD AT

Lookout Mountain July 15, 16, and 17, 1891.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 10 A.M.

The Bar Association of Tennessee convened in its tenth annual meeting Wednesday, July 15, at Lookout Inn, on Lookout Mountain, George W. Pickle, of Dandridge, President of the Association, in the chair, and Albert D. Marks presiding at the clerk's desk.

The following members of the Association were present:

Andrew Allison,

Garnett Andrews,

W. Armistead Collier,

James Comfort,

Robert McKinney Barton, Jr., William Henry DeWitt,

William M. Baxter,

J. Willis Bonner,

Thomas R. Boyle,
Joseph Gerald Branch,
Robert L. Bright,
Tully Brown,
Malachi T. Bryan,
Charles N. Burch,
Waller C. Caldwell,
Lemuel R. Campbell,
E. Y. Chapin,

Jacob McGavock Dickinson,

Bedford M. Estes,

C. R. Evans,
Tomlinson Fort,
C. W. Frazer,
James B. Frazier,
George T. Fry,
James M. Greer,
Allen G. Hall,
Stokely D. Hayes,
T. J. Hayes,

John Ruhm,

John H. Savage,
David L. Snodgrass,
Frank Spurlock,
W. B. Swaney,
Jerome Templeton,
W. G. M. Thomas,
J. J. Turner,

William H. Washington,
F. O. Wert,

Xenophon Wheeler,
George T. White,
Hu Whitesides,
Luke E. Wright,

F. S. Yager,

T. K. Young.

THE PRESIDENT.-Gentlemen of the State Bar Association: I have the honor to announce that the hour has arrived for opening the proceedings of the tenth annual session of the State Bar Association of Tennessee. It is not necessary that I should ask of this assembly of lawyers what I know I shall receive-kindly aid and co-operation in the conduct of the proceedings of this meeting. It may be that in the course of the proceedings cases will arise where there has been no precedent, or, what is the same, none known to the Chair, in which case the Chair will, after the manner of the common law judges, make a precedent.

The meeting is now open for the dispatch of business. There is a matter this morning which takes precedence over the published programme.

W. B. Swaney.-Mr. President and gentlemen of the State Bar Association: It is the custom of trades, callings, and professions to have meetings to discuss questions that they consider to be their own, and this custom is so well-nigh universal that it attracts but little attention generally. This is one of the earliest productions of our American institutions. This characteristic has in fact become so common that an observant and witty Frenchman once said of us, that if a ship-load of passen