Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1905 — Wilson of Jasper, Again. [ARTICLE]

Wilson of Jasper, Again.

Tuesday’s Indi napolis Star has a good pi ture i f H n J sse E. Wilson i f Rensselaer, and joint representative f r om and Lake counties wit' l the following re warding o e-of Mr. Wi’sou’s new bibs J-sa-t Wils m of Jasper County has - ffemo to the Legislature a bill the pracuce of law in the Supreme and Appellate Courts th*t will b-* of inter-st to every.,.lawyer of ladiana The bill provides tb«t cases s- all not be dismissed on mere technicalities and that the higher courts must pass on every q on ;ia every case rpp* a ! ed He-said for his bill; “The cu-tom now is for the courts to di-miss*alt appealed cases ia which tner - is ihe s ight-st i < the Tecord, There are many cases of merit that are dismissed because of unimportant erro’S in the reoo r ds, it ia not right ibat this s’oold he so. There >s no reason why a lawyer’s o ien< sh uld suffer because his att -rney m ,He h little error. The answer generally given to this oompla<nt is that the severity cf the rules won d maK* better and more careful bw - ers, hut, it would j snrely be euon h punishment that the client of 'he lawyer would have to foot the bill for thi sending of the correction of errors made.”