New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1930, Page 3

| DRY LAW REPEAL " (Continued From First Page) Holden of Hart Berry of Hartford. | The speaker said he did not believe the law could be enforced. saying| that it was “a gigantic error to place a mere police regulation in the con- stitution of the United States.” Distinguishtd Guests Present About 100 members of the cluding a state supreme court jus- tice, an attorney-general of the state ate’s attorney,.city and po- lice court judges. probate judges, honored members of the profession and members of the New Britain Lawyer's club attended the banquet Judge Bernard F. Gaffney, presi- dent of the local association, presid- ed. dict M torney Joseph P. Corruption in New York Speaking of the judiciary in New York state, Prof. Worn d that av the top, the last court of appeal, there was purity and perfection but al the bottom, there was corruption He intimated that free trips to Bu- rope were not conducive to meet- ing the best ends of justice stated that one of the greatest prob- lems for the bar starving and impecunious b, gront cities of the country He paid an exceptional ment to a decision rendered by Justice Wheeler in the Conn supreme court recently. He comy hief cticut ermed arless decision” but stated ew law He cited the wherein a person was drowned at a public ing beach and his estate sought to recover damages because proper safety ap- pliances®™ve Justice Wheeler said th n a public beach is opened. the proprietors by come persons who scek to used and those who use it patrons. He could rec there was no 1 He claimed profes lan Yale 1 i on {he wrong track mpt to modify the the certainty vas not so desirable Theodore Ttoo: tad a certain fo awyers, majority of the pe Blames Bootlegging r that sors of statem o the elieved 1 hotton college hoys dvm\‘ &0 tory actions fiscuss Selght often precedent, moves case whi i Em ust pron his white co Sl i into a is. whet foods for ar cedents embodyi the past, in so tpon sound social cu £0 far as they tom they n ac and at vantage “Iord Mansfield est jurists who ever 1 17 brushed aside all and pointed out, once and for hat law was based on reason both of which are and n be her ‘hand maidens port, and this enumeration proved in a ilize vi countries, failure to obs times, has profound dissatisfaction become others and her su ure of justification.” Reason and Justice Necessary The speaker em law must be fundamentally based on | considerations of reason and justice and on prevalent social and econ ic conceptions, saying in part “If it be remembered t based on reason and that we must consider not only precedents of the past hut the ot gations of the future. many of the difficulies in the pathway of law will be removed. The erroneous conception of the force of precedent s found in Portia’s ¥he says not be, there is hasized that 1asized tha law is and justice the plea in “ It must n Venice Can alter a decree established orded for i an error by t rush into the no power "twill | precedent, { » same cxampie state; it ot | Many will he.’ “The fatal error’in this concep- | tion is that it brushes entirely aside consideration of equity and good conscience and insists that technical law, per se, as embodied in an out- precedent function. | made by dife, and ating and vary- | as born v ageous must Jor law reet the s large fluet of life neration in the social | It is in | ke into account the social | genius of the era which | and | or| function, | ‘ and gives it birth. It prevailing predominant social cconomic theories and tendencies. it overlooks Its primary St “One | ible, but on the | eial science, ford and At- | part { sociology, philosophy, cance bar, in- |y He | o 99 MAY 1930. T8 ture | justic onfi(‘louq\l,i of the people of the limitations. illustration, Be Flexible successfully emphasized that the is sufficient. In the early days t be regarded as inflex- common ‘liber cont was a watchword constantly not too much to sayim American of John Story w tract.” The arbitravy whose Law Should ¥ must n law, of col ary is a de opirig. and changing so point e Marshall : y and of “The law is a progressive veloping -social scie be studied in col tion with the other sciences, and, in particular ethics and po- sciences have d de 1 d upon LSt sanctity of contra of freedom of ¢ ned and reaffirmed , in a changing and ver: ent social and economi 3 the fetish tha litical economy. These an inspir and profound signifi- to one who belie 250 at the la o gressing life set of word that upheld redlom of stone; not meet the eve y law present hour, and that € h y intert upheld, though the \ freedom of end is not yet. power of the echnique hinges and depends upor - | fere wi altering economic [0 believe, or « can cver have convicts one of entire moral welfare of h technical freedom may be interfered wit is nothing reason and 1 s dealing cloping exper Would law, mysterious right rtainty in of being deem even so sure t Repeal 18th aker the altogether Room for Discretion in Courts proc for one moment do I topic of the posit most di e Americar nforcer upon t not ¢ and y\]\ AS M.)lu ‘taine fail, though precedent “In the not, and supporte ing, jurist, can o atter how sioughing-off on developi a 1sages precisely as t whic without details, it is mon knov that which one era treats a anothr + Law regards as Not Exact Seience ey asion to speak. 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