Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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End Law s Delays; Complex Procedure Often Defeats Justice

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Main Issue Becomes SideTracked

Administrative Branch Is Top Heavy

By District Attorney CHARLES S. WHITMAN of New York City - i ~—■ '■ ■ '■■■ : ■. ——r IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS OF THE PRACTICE OF THE LAW TODAY ARE SUCH THAT THE MERITS OF THE CONTROVERSY ARE OFTEN SWALLOWED UP IN PROCEDURE; THE TECHNICALITIES AND OVERABUNDANCE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE FEATURES OF A LAWSUIT ARE SO GREAToTHAT THE MAIN ISSUE BECOMES SIDETRACKED, AND THEREBY JUSTICE IS OFTEN NOT ONLY DELAYED, BUT ABSOLUTELY DEFEATED. IN SHORT, THE ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH OF OUR LAW HAS GROWN TOP HEAVY. As to the remedies, the bar has come to regard it as settled that some branch of the main tribunal should be delegated to fitrip the controversy prior to its appearance before the trial court of everything but the real issue, and the only difference of opinion existing is as to the best method by which ihis result may be accomplished, but it is now generally conceded that masters ESPECIALLY COMPETENT TO DEAL WITH PROCEDURAL MATTERS should be appointed, so that only the matters really in issue will be presented to the trial tribunal, and all this should be speedily, inexpensively and effectively done as soon after the institution of the suit as is consistent 1 with the preservation of the rights and liberties of the suitors. A constitutional convention will be held in New York soon. There will be a great forum for the discussion of these matters, and there b\ furthering the selection. of delegates competent to consider these important matters and bv the prior formulation of a program embodying ideas ot relorm (he bar of tin- state may make its voice, heard in no fincertain way. confident that the great mass of the people will stand behind it in taking a stop that Will. be the means of handing down a new freedom—A FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF PROCEDURE, bondage to which you add I have grown accustomed, as it has IN NO SMALL DEGREE ENSLAVED LITIGANTS, lawyers and courts and judges as well. THE FOUNDATION STONES OF ALL SYSTEMS FOR THE DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE SHOULD BE SPEED, SURENESS AND SIMPLICITY, AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SIMPLICITY.