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20. In what case and under what circumstances can a writ of error issue directly from the Court of Errors and Appeals to the Court of Oyer and Terminer?

21. At common law what right had a husband in personal property acquired by the wife during coverture? What is the rule in New Jersey?

22. The treasurer of a corporation died. There was no provision in the by-laws for the election of his successor. How can the place be filled?

23. On a bill for the construction of a will, evidence was offered of declarations made by the testator at the time of making the will as to his meaning and intention. Should this evidence be received?

24. In a suit involving an account, it appears that the defendant had admitted that a certain sum was due. The defendant, however, demanded the production of the plaintiff’s books and on refusal moved for a nonsuit. Should the motion be granted?

25. How is an issue of fact created in a lawsuit?

26. Where may the venue be laid in a transitory action?

27. How should service of summons and complaint be made in a case where an affidavit of merits is desired?

28. X in a bill against Y in his prayer asked for answer without oath. Y answered under oath. How should the answer be construed?

29. A filed a bill in Chancery and failed to pray for general relief. Can he succeed if the special relief prayed for fails?

30. A, clerk in a law firm, not yet admitted to the Bar, receiving a regular salary, had his friends retain his employers. Should the firm divide its fees with the clerk?

NEW JERSEY BAR ADMISSIONS, NOVEMBER TERM, 1921.

The following were admitted as attorneys by the Supreme Court of this State at the November Term, 1921:

Elizabeth.

Bender, Albert C., 714 Elizabeth Ave.

Eisenberg, Henry M., 39 Third St.

Liotta, Eugene A., 95 Broad St.

Weiner, Frank S., 128 Broad St.

Hoboken.

Capelli, George A., 227 Madison St.

Greenberg, William, 84 Washington St.

Levenson, Jay M., 51 Newark St.

Stover, Harriet C., 1037 Bloomfield St.

Jersey City.

Blumberg, Leo, 139 Magnolia Ave.

Ewald, Henry, Jr., 587 Summit Ave.

Hoagland, Inez, City Hall.

Kelly, James Francis, Lincoln Trust Bldg.

Kriegel, Louis J., 665 Newark Ave.

Kuebler, Carl S., 75 Montgomery St.

McCarthy, James J., 15 Exchange Pl.

Pforr, Arthur, 75 Montgomery St.

Newark.

Brown, John S., Central High School, New and High Sts.

Citret, Harry, 790 Broad St.

Dorgeval, Harold F., 164 Market St.

Eisner, Mortimer, 585 High St.

Eppston, Joseph G., 20 Clinton St.

Federici, Christine A., 1025 Kinney Bldg.

Kinkelstein, Milton J., 828 Broad St.

Giordano, John C., 226 Hunterdon St.

Halpin, Julius H., 133 Somerset St.

Merz, Charles D., 324 Hawthorne Ave.

Padalino, Frank P., 216 Camden St.

Pollard, Robert S., 164 Market St.

Potoker, Benjamin, 40 Beacon St.

Reid, Alexander F., Jr., 296 Mulberry St.

Schneider, Louis, 790 Broad St.

Thiele, Richard Hardie, Prudential Ins. Co.

Vanderbilt, Leslie L., 14 N. 9th St.

Trenton.

Cella, G. Andrew, 345 Hamilton Ave.

Heher, John L., 301 Commonwealth Bldg.

Josephson, Leon, 1009 Greenwood Ave.

Other Places.

Bremer, Philip M., 41 Paterson St., New Brunswick.

Colver, Frederick B., Tenafly.

Dart, William A., 201 Sheen Bldg., Atlantic City.

DeYoe, Willard L., U. S. Trust Bldg., Paterson.

Fuller, Ernest, 60 Fairview Ave., So. Orange.

Galanti, Benjamin P., Main St., Hackensack.

Greenberg, Victor, 153 Grove St., Passaic.

Gottko, Anthony A., 37 E. 26th St., Bayonne.

Hahn, Harold H., 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.

Hendler, Louis L., 165 French St., New Brunswick.

Hendrickson, Frank A., 117 Main St., Mt. Holly.

Jackson, George T., 706 N. Ohio Ave., Atlantic City.

Loder, William W., 107 E. Commerce St., Bridgeton.

Lore, Harry T., Section of Surety Bonds, Treas. Dept., Washington, D. C.

McDonough, Peter J., Jr., Babcock Bldg., Plainfield.

McElroy, Leon E., 115 Main St., Woodbridge.

Plympton, George F., 117 Clinton Pl., Hackensack.

Preston, Joseph A., 224 Park Ave., Cliffside.

Ridgeway, S. Paul, 1 N. Iowa Ave., Atlantic City.

Thompson, Rufus B., 505 Federal St., Camden.

Visscher, Barent L., 84 William St., N. Y. City.

Warsinski, Carl H., 50 Burnside Ave., Cranford.

Woods, Elmer B., Glassboro.

Zirpoli, Anthony P., 126 Market St., Paterson.

The following were also admitted as Counselors-at-Law:

Counselors.

Bergen, Francis L., 2nd Nat. Bk. Bldg., Somerville.

Bowne, Edward A., South River.

Braelow, Joseph C., 800 Broad St., Newark.

Buchanan, Jessie C., 40 W. State St., Trenton.

Deegan, Joseph F., 415 Raritan Bldg., Perth Amboy.

Fleming, Russell, 790 Broad St., Newark.

Gunther, Edward C., Hudson Tr. Bldg., W. Hoboken.

Handford, James L., 790 Broad St., Newark.

Hirschberg, Samuel L., 84 Washington St., Hoboken.

Isaacs, Lionel, 143 Summit Ave., W. Hoboken.

Kaplan, Joseph D., 200 S. Broad St., Trenton.

Kepsel, Julius A., 243 Montgomery St., Jersey City.

Krohn, Herman, 763 Broad St., Newark.

Lesser, Louis B., 9 Clinton St., Newark.

Matthews, John A., 31 Clinton St., Newark.

McCloskey, W. Durward, Thompson Bldg., Lakewood.

Miele, Philip J., 75 Montgomery St., Jersey City.

Morrison, George R., 190 College Ave., New Brunswick.

Praissman, Maurice L., 537 Arch St., Camden.

Rauch, Sylvan J., 53 Penna. Ave., Newark.

Reussille, Leon, Jr., 34 Broad St., Red Bank.

Satz, David M., 763 Broad St., Newark.

Schroth, Godfrey W., Jr., 412 Broad St., Trenton.

Schultz, Vincent, 790 Broad St., Newark.

Seiler, Isaac W., 472 Broadway, Bayonne.

Silberman, Paul R., 776 Broad St., Newark.

Simandl, Harold, 790 Broad St., Newark.

Stiles, Harry A., 95 River St., Hoboken.

Stover, Charles W., 84 Washington St., Hoboken.

Sullivan, James A., 15 Exchange Pl., Jersey City.

Tepper, Harry L., 800 Broad St., Newark.

Varbalow, Joseph, 540 Federal St., Camden.

Waldman, Herman, 19 Clinton St., Newark.

Zimmerman, Thomas L., Jr., 232 Rider Ave., N. Y. City.

Zucker, Maurice J., 790 Broad St., Newark.

OBITUARIES.

Ex-Justice Bennet Van Syckel.

On Dec. 20th last, following a brief illness of bronchial pneumonia, Supreme Court Justice Bennet Van Syckel, almost ninety-two years old, the oldest alumnus of Princeton University, died at his home in Trenton.

Judge Van Syckel was the son of Aaron Van Syckel, and Mary Van Syckel, of Bethlehem, Hunterdon county, and was born there April 17, 1830. His father and his grandfather were country merchants, whose ancestors came with the old Dutch settlers to that part of New Jersey. His father was considered wealthy in those days and was able to give his four sons an excellent education. When Bennet was nine years old he was sent to a boarding school at Easton. At the age of thirteen he completed his preparatory studies and entered Princeton in the Sophomore class. Three years later he was graduated with high honors and for one year was resident graduate Assistant Professor to Joseph Henry, who occupied the chair of Natural Philosophy.

Bennet next took up the study of law in the office of Alexander Wurts of Flemington, and was prepared to take his law examination some time before he was of age, but as he could not be admitted to the Bar while under twenty-one was forced to wait. On the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, at the April Term of the Supreme Court, 1851, he was admitted to the Bar, and became counselor at the June Term, 1854. He at once opened office in Flemington, and practiced there with unusual success until February, 1858, when Governor Randolph appointed him Justice of the Supreme Court. At that time he was the youngest member of the Court. His Circuits were in the counties of Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic and Cape May. When the number of Supreme Court Justices was increased from seven to nine and the districts were readjusted, Justice Van Syckel was assigned to Union and Ocean counties, where he presided twenty-nine years. He was five times reappointed. Only a few months after his last appointment in 1904 he resigned because of ill health and increasing age.

After his retirement Justice Van Syckel was made the guest of the New Jersey Bench and Bar, at Trenton, upon which occasion a portrait of him painted in oil was presented to the State, to be hung on the wall of the Supreme Court room at the Capitol. A few months later another portrait was hung in the new court house in Union County, in honor of the Justice who had presided there for so many years.

During his term of service Justice Van Syckel delivered some of the most important opinions of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Errors and Appeals. In the prosecution of the Linden and Elizabeth race track gamblers in 1893 he proved a terror to poolsellers, bookmakers and evildoers. It was Justice Van Syckel who wrote the opinion of the Supreme Court when an effort was made to challenge the majority cast in favor of the anti-gambling amendment to the State Constitution, and his opinion upholding the adoption of the amendments was sustained by the Court of Errors and Appeals.

At the time of his death a membership in the directorate of the Prudential Life Insurance Company was the former Justice’s sole business affiliation. His activity in connection with this post caused his associates to marvel. He attended all the meetings and was as alert as the youngest of his colleagues. At the Princeton alumni reunion in June, 1920, he led the Parade around the baseball field and got a big ovation from the throng in attendance. In his automobile he arose repeatedly and raised his hat in acknowledgment of the applause.

In 1911, Woodrow Wilson, when Governor, appointed him and former State Attorney General Edmund Wilson, of Red Bank, as a commission to study the proposed abandonment of the Morris Canal. The report was adverse to the State taking over the canal. The Justice aided in the drafting of the “Seven Sisters” Acts, passed during the Wilson administration, which were designed to curb the activities of the trusts in New Jersey.

Justice Van Syckel was a lover of outdoor sports. In his younger days he played town ball and football and later was a great admirer of baseball. He rode horseback, played golf and was a fine wing shot. In politics he was a Democrat, but politics had no place with him while he sat on the Bench.

Mr. Van Syckel married Miss Mary Elizabeth Sloane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hand Sloane. He is survived by two sons, Charles S. and William S., and a daughter, Bessie.

Judge William R. Francis.

Former New Jersey State Senator and former Supreme Court Judge of Dakota, William R. Francis, died in the City Hospital in Newark, this State, on Dec. 15th last, aged 82 years. His death was the result of a fall in the bedroom of his home, 324 S. Orange Ave., Newark.

Judge Francis was born in Connecticut. He was a graduate from Oberlin College and then came to Newark, where he became a member of the law firm of Titsworth, Francis & Marsh. He served as city counsel of Newark from 1871 to 1875 and in the State Senate from 1879 to 1881. In 1882 Mr. Francis went to Dakota. At that time the two Dakotas were united in a territory of the United States. After completing his term as Supreme Court Judge there he became attorney for the Northern Pacific Railroad. About twenty years ago he returned to Newark. Mr. Francis was a Master in Chancery and had offices with Scharringhausen & Hartpence, 800 Broad street. Mr. Francis is survived by a widow, who was Miss Annie Yeomans of Newark. He is also survived by a niece, Mrs. C. L. Bryant of Danbury, Conn., and a cousin, Miss Mary Francis, of Newark.