Note 3 — Chapter XI · Wills, Quaint and Curious.

Judge John F. Philips advised the writer that an opinion was prepared by a member of the federal court and submitted to him for his concurrence when he was on the bench, in a case similar to that referred to in the text, but it was changed when the attention of the writer was called to the existing facts, which the opinion failed to note. It is to be regretted that historians and law writers cannot so amend their works.