March 1886: A suit against “Mrs. A.F. Hoagland” over an installment-payment contract was dismissed despite a Practice Act section allowing parties to be designated in pleadings “by the initial letter or letters, or some contraction of the Christian or first name or names.” Elizabeth District Court Judge Patrick Gilhooley held the statute applied only to suits over promissory notes. The Law Journal editors were dubious that the Legislature intended any debtor should be released on such a technicality.
100 Years Ago
March 1911: The New Jersey State Bar Association had signed on to the National Bar Association’s ethics canons for the legal profession, which opened with the preamble that lawyers should shape their conduct so as to obtain “approval of all just men.” A Law Journal commentator took issue, observing: “Lawyers as a class have never had the approval of all just men, and it is not apparent that the cause of justice or the safety of the Republic have suffered thereby.”
75 Years Ago
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