Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Vol. 49: For the Year 1897; Part I In his time attendance upon the seasons of the Supreme Court were apt to be large. Cases of importance were frequent, and called for the ser vices oi eminent lawyers. The practitioners who constituted the bar of the period made up a distinguished body. They conducted the cases in hand, as a general rule, with studied deference to the bench. The Court, guided by the Chief Justice, turned habitually with close and often with devoted attention to the discussions progressing before it. The pressure of public business upon all the justices was very great. The Chief Justice, who prepared his full proportion Of the decisions rendered, besides his other duties, undertook the assignment of cases to the associates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.