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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...beneficiaries of the estates (heirs, legatees, minors, widows, persons of unsound mind, etc.), are practically not in a position to protect their interests but must trust those administering the estates; tempting opportunity for pluckings are therefore presented which are only too often not sufficiently resisted. Now it was one of Judge Woerner's striking characteristics that throughout his whole incumbency he keenly felt a high moral responsibility in this respect; and he scrutinized closely and with patience every item for which credit was taken in these accountings; every item charged against any estate under his supervision in all the tens of thousands of accounts that came before him, still rests in the archives of the court with his personal check mark on it, showing either its allowance or disallowance. It was manifested time and again--and doubtless was the fact still more frequently without being manifested at all--that his measureless care and watchfulness prevented the wrecking of estates by the un-scrupulousness, and oftener by the ignorance or lack of discretion, on the part of those legally in charge thereof. The general trust placed in his administration of the affairs of his court was humorously expressed by an old resident of means who said that it gave a man real pleasure to die in St. Louis because he knew that his estate would be so well taken care of by Judge Woerner. That he was the most learned mian in the field of probate law known to this day is a deliberate statement of the plain truth. His value as a judge was not because of that vast and practical experience on the probate bench which was his, nor because of the absolute mastery of the theoretical legal principles involved, which also was his, but because of the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151722676
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151722677
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr

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