Proceedings OF THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Kentucky State Bar Association HELD AT OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY, JULY 2 and 3, 1903. LOUISVILLE 1903 Extra copies of this volume may be had upon the payment of one dollar to the Secretary. LELAND STANDE, JR., UNIVER&TY LAW LEFARTMENT, 1 OFFICERS 1903-1904. President: Vice Presidents: Paducah Greenville John S. KELLEY, Bardstown W. O. HARRIS, Louisville P. K. MALIN, Ashland R. W. MILLER, Richmond CHAS. D. GRUBBS, Mt. Sterling Secretary: Columbia Building. OFFICERS 1902-1903. President: Vice Presidents: Paducah Bowling Green JOHN S. KELLEY, Bardstown F. P. STRAUS, Louisville D. L. THORNTON, Versailles S. D. ROUSE, Covington LEWIS APPERSON, Mt. Sterling Secretary: Kentucky Title Building. 4 Dos OFFICERS 1901-1902. President: Vice Presidents. Paducah Leitchfield I. W. TWYMAN, Hodgenville E. J. MCDERMOTT, Louisville D. L. THORNTON, Versailles JAMES C. WRIGHT, Newport THOMAS BROWN, Catlettsburg Secretary: Kentucky Title Building. 7567 1903-1904. Executive Committee. And the President, Treasurer and Secretary ex-officio. .Bowling Green Covington . Lexington .Grayson Winchester .Louisville Committee on Membership. WM. MARSHALL BULLITT, Chairman, Louisville. Henderson . Barbourville Pineville Versailles .Lawrenceburg ..Hartford Law Reform Committee. JOHN B. BASKIN, Chairman, Louisville. New Castle Paris . Mayfield . Elizabethtown Committee on Legal Education. GEO. R. HUNT, Chairman, Lexington. Louisville Bowling Green .. Louisville ..Owensboro Flemingsburg . . . . . Stanford Grievance Committee. F. P. STRAUS... Louisville .Lexington Versailles .Louisville Louisville Winchester Committee on Preservation of Records. D. W. LINDSAY, Chairman, Frankfort. .Louisville .Lexington .Bowling Green .Henderson Committee on Necrology. C. B. SEYMOUR, Chairman, Louisville. Flemingsburg ... Louisville PROCEEDINGS. FIRST DAY. THURSDAY, July 2, 1903. The Association convened in the court room of the Daviess Circuit Court, and was called to order at 2 o'clock P. M. by the President. THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen of the Kentucky State Bar Association, I am gratified to be able to greet so many members of this Association upon this our second annual meeting. The first thing in the order of exercises will be some words of welcome on the part of the Owensboro Bar, delivered through its chosen and worthy representative, Judge Lucius P. Little, who will now address you. Judge Little then addressed the Association as follows: JUDGE LITTLE'S ADDRESS. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Kentucky State Bar Association: It affords me great pleasure to tender you, collectively and individually, that ancient corporate franchise—the freedom of our city. Our legal construction of this grant, when translated into , plain Kentucky speech, signifies the liberty to “make yourselves at home.” In view of vague and conflicting rumors of delinquencies and irregularities in the mountains, it is proper for me to assure you that the |