Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1881 — Woman at the Indiana Bar. [ARTICLE]

Woman at the Indiana Bar.

THiHiiajiiiii Js^i Hie admission to the bar in this city of a female lawyer from the state of lowa, without a word of objection from any quarter, is an interesting event, and the fact that jt was done by the liberal and ingenious construction of statutes not Intended for that purpose, shows the growing disposito recognize the “claims” of women, and even to stretch the provisions of law inherfovor. TVentv-flveorthirty the bar, and no judge erod'd have been found bold enotmh to spake such a construction of the constitution and lows in favor of woman as that made by the judge of the criminal court in toe caw of Mr. Foster. Now, no person is surprised at the applicatitm or the rulin ß