Excerpt from Sketch of the Life and Judicial Labors of Chief-Justice Shaw It remains for us to give some estimate of his judicial life and labors. In this estimate we cannot omit the element of time. He went upon the bench in his fiftieth year, and then worked, through the lifetime of a generation, with strength and vigor to the last. Some of his later judgments are, indeed, his best; are remarkable for their freshness, for the sagacity and grasp with which he apprehended the new exigencies of society and 'business, and applied and adapted the old rules of law to them. A striking and beautiful illustration may be found in the case of the Commonwealth v. Temple, 14 Gray, 69. This. Opinion contains a thorough consideration of the rights of travellers to the use of the highways, as affected and modified by the introduction and use of street railways. 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.