Excerpt from Memorial of Charles F. Southmayd: Read by Joseph H. Choate Before the Bar Association of the City of New YorkAnd in the practice of the law, begin ning, as he did, before the introduction of the pernicious Code of Procedure, which has done so much to spoil the practice in this State, he was able to steer his course, in the consideration and decision of questions submitted to him, on grounds of pure principle, without distortion by technical points and con siderations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.