IIT Chicago Kent College of Law - Transcript Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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t F , a noisy Appellate lOl. The court there held that a wife had as much right to come back from an auto ride with clean shoes as a husband did to come home from a poker party with face powder on his shoulder and a lipstick signature on his forehead, evensif he did lose all his money holding three queens. M I D ELEVENTH MAXIMUM. Equity acts in personamf' Meaning to say, it tells the various parties where to get off at rather than go after their property. That's exactly how it should be. in divorce and criminal matters. It doesnft doiany good to take away a bandit's gun or make a levy on a husbandis property for ali- monial reasons. Equity,'on the contrary, would make the yegg attempt to hold up Jack Dempsey, after allowing jack a pair of four-ounce gloves and arming the bad guy with a half pound of marshmallows. Results thus obtained have a lastinger effect than merely proceeding against his property. As to divorce in this regard, equity will decree that the parties stay away from' each other altogether rather than have the furniture divided between the combatants. - Now then, these are the important Rules or Maximums in Equity, and although they never were applied to divorce and criminal law before, don't you see how appropriate they are? Wh,y, most anyone could see that. So there they are, take them or leave them and use'them and work with them and the benefits that come from labor will be made clear to you, for as Paul Revere said when he started out on his ride for the mail, Them that has gets, and them as feedsthe horses is them as rides. I Prof: What marked woman's debut in politics ? Osk: I don't know, but it was some time before the reign of Herodf' Prof: Wl1at makes you think that? I Osk: Well, history states that Salome's motions before the house rc- ceived great applause. , I AN ARCHDEACONS CCURT The following passage from Chaucer's Friaris Tale is delightfully de- scriptive of the jurisdiction exercised by an archdeacon in his court in the good old days of Chaucer. I y ' Whilom there was dwellyng in my countre, An erchedeken, a man of great degre, That boldely did execucioun, ' In punyschyng of fornicacioun, Of wicchecraft, and eek of bauderye, Of diffamacioun, and avoutrie, Of chirche--reves,aand of testamentes, Qf contractes, and of lak of sacraments, And eek of many another maner cryme, , VVhich needith not to reherse at this tymef' 192 Page 169

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THE. Tx N6 Q 4 sure that he or she could be more fond and dutiful and loving to another's spouse, why let he or she make such arrangements to bring such a thing about and when that has been done, equity will do the rest, usually by the way of an agent, the coroner. ' . I SEVENTH MAXIMUM. Equity aids the vigilant and not the indolentf' In other words, if you don't keep on your toes you don't get to first base with the equators or dispensers of equity. Don't let. the grass grow under your feet, and if the afore mentioned spouse talks about Bertha or William in his or her sleep and your name is Florence or Claude, equity won't help much if you don't step on the gas and get the facts in the case and act upon them. Likewise in criminal matter. If you happen to be murdered or manslaughtered and like a rummy don't say anything about it, don't blame equity for not taking much of an interest in your affairs. I EIGHTH MAXIMUM. A Equity imputes an intention to fulfill an obligation. In divorce, equity assumes that the he-spouse will show the she-spouse 'where to get off at, as a fulfillment of the promise to obey, which is still, as in the days of the bond issue for the. Pyramids, still snickered out during the ceremony that does you in until death takes away the sting, and to criminals not so well versed in equity, a hint at this time to shoot if they say they are going to, would no doubt be well advised. Nothing gets the Honorary Judges so sore as for a stick-up man that's supposed to be in good standing to go back on his word. NINTH MAXIMUM. Equality is equity. A good terse explanation of this maximum would be, Take a guy your own size. It looks fierce to see a little bit of a mur- derer, scaling a hundred and ten, confronted in the court room with a two hundred and twenty-pound corpus delicti. E-quity's mission is to even things up, and in the above instance equity would no doubt award the de- fendant another murder free, because there certainly was an imposition somewhere. In the same manner, where the difference in weight betwixt and between loving spouses is over fifty pounds, equity will require the heavier mate to keep one hand strapped behind the back, and in case the difference is a hundred pounds or more, brass or platinum knuckles to match the ring of servitude will be presented the runt out of the fund left over after the attorneys, solicitors, advocates and counsellors get theirs. . TENTH MAXIMUM. Equity looks upon that as done which ought to be done. If for in- stance a man leaves his jewelry store open all night, equity will award the cleaning out contract to the five finger artist in whose district this gentle- man has his place of business. Likewise if a fond -spouse catches her hus- band with some dizzy blonde, equity will decree that the wife should go out for an evening with either a lounge lizard or a cake-eater, for equity will not stand by: and see the husband get the only gypping. Take a reference here to the Illinois law on that point. Yousta vs. I-Iasbin, 414 Ill., 1925 Page 168

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SlVIUL.LIN'S Ar-3sTRACT 1-OUNDRY THERE WILL BE NO OBJECTIONS TO OUR WORK OUR SPECIAL SWAMP POLICY WILL PROTECT YOUR FLOATING LOTS 96 WEST. FRANKLIN STREET E THOMAS E. SMULLIN. PRESIDENT TITLE OFFICERS JOHN T. DILLON WALTER A. O'BRIEN FRANK W. MICHALAK HENRY E. SASSO Chicago, Illinois, June lst, l925. Marlow J. Madden, Esquire, President of the Class of '25, Chicago-Kent College of Law, lO North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir:- At your request, we have examined the abstract of title submitted to us, covering:, Lots Three CBJ, Five Q51 and the north eight inches Q8 J of Lot Four Q45 in the A'ssessor's Division of Lot Eight CBI in Block Fifty-three 4551, in the Original Town of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois, otherwise known as Number lO North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois, from September lOth, 1922 to June lst, 1925, and relying wholly upon the same, we are of the opinion that title to said premises was vested on said last mentioned date in THE CLASS OF 1925 subject to a heterogeneous conglomeration of clouds more, fully enumerated as follows: l. Rights or claims of law students possibly now in possession, not apt to be shown of record any where A else than on the class room walls or carved on the chair arms. 2. The leans of countless cigarette smokers against the frescoed walls of the college building situated on I Page I7O