University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Mr. Seavey graduated A.B. from Harvard College in 1901 and LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1904. He practiced privately in Boston from 1904-1906. lie organized the Law School at the Imperial Pci Yang University at Tientsin and was also Director of the College of Law of the AEF University at Baune in France in 1919. He has been Dean of Nebraska University School of Law (1920-1926) and has taught at Oklahoma State University, Tulane Law School, Indiana University, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard. A widely recognized authority in Agency and Torts, he has helped publish casebooks in those fields, lie has also been a reporter in the Restatement of Agency, Restatement of Restitution, Restatement of Trusts, and the Restatement of Judgments. Ilis lectures in Agency in the Winter Session were often warmed by his generous and ready wit. WARREN A. SEAVEY Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Dr. Smith received his A.B. and M.B.A. from the University of Texas, and his LL.B. and M.D. degrees from Harvard University. He was an Associate in Medical-Legal Research. Harvard Law School and Medical School from 1941-1945, Professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Illinois from 1945-1949, Professor of Legal Medicine and University Research Professor of Law and Medicine, Tulane University (1949-1952). lie joined the University of Texas Law Faculty in 1952. He has been editor and contributing author in national symposia on Scientific Proof and Relations of Law and Medicine and Legal Responsibility of Medical Malpractice. He has lectured in Evidence, Legal Medicine and Elements of Medicolegal Litigation, The Science of Human Behavior in Relation to Law. HUBERT WINSTON SMITH, M.D. Director of the Law-Science Institute Mr. Stayton received his B.A. (1907) and LL.B. (1927) from the University of Texas. He has been a Professor of Law at the University of Texas since 1925. He was a member of the Board of Legal Examiners, 1921-1923; Judge, Commission of Appeals, 1923-1925; President, Texas Bar Association, 1924-1925; Texas Civil Judicial Council, 1930-1946; Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Procedure since 1940; managing secretary of the Texas Law Review since 1926. His projects have included: Functional Judications of Reported Opinions, Pendency of Texas Civil Litigation, Court Reorganization, The Plastic Code, and Decisions and Judicial Legislation. He is also author of Method of Practice, and casebooks of Texas Procedure, and he has written Slaytons Texas Forms since 1915. Mr. Stayton has lectured in Judicial Administration, Legal Method, Judicial Remedies, Trial and Appellate Procedure, and Federal Procedure. ROBERT WELDON STAYTON Distinguished Professor of Tmw

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Mr. Patterson received his LL.B. from the University of Texas in 1936. Since 1942, lie has been Director of the Legal Aid Clinic. lie was admitted to practice before the Bar in 1936 and since 1941 he has been a member of the law firm of Patterson and Patterson in Austin, Texas. From 1937 until 1941 he was Assistant District Attorney for Travis County, Texas. WOODROW WILSON PATTERSON Director of the Legal Aid Clinic Mr. Ruud received his B.S.L. from the University of Minnesota in 1942, and his LL.B. degree from that same school in 1947. After serving as a Captain in the United States Army during World War II, he became an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law in 1947. He came to the University of Texas School of Law in 1948 as an Associate Professor of Law and he has been a Professor of Law since 1950. He was Assistant Executive Director of the Texas Legislature from 1950 until 1952 and general editor and co-author of the Study of the Uniform Commercial Code. In his capacity as a Professor, Mr. Ruud lectures in courses in Legislation, Agency and Partnership, Commercial Ixiw, and Local Government. MILLARD HARRINGTON RUUD Professor of Law THE FACULTY LIBRARY 17

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Mr. Stumbcrg received his B.A. from Louisiana State University, his LL.B. from Columbia University, and his J.D. degree from Yale University in 1924. lie also attended Washington University and Oxford University in England. He has been a Professor of Law at the University of Texas Law School since 1925. He served with the Board of Economic Warfare as Assistant Counsel in 1942, and in 1943, as their Special Representative in French West Africa. lie then became Advisor on French Economic Affairs in the Foreign Economic Administration through 1944. Mr. Stumbcrg is the author of Principles of Conflicts of Laws, Cases on Admiralty, Criminal Law and Its Administration, Cases on Conflicts of Imws, and Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of France. Mr. Stum-berg lectures in courses in Criminal Law, Conflicts of Imw, and Admiralty, in which he is considered a leading authority. GEORGE WILFRED STUMBERG Distinguished Professor of Law Mr. Sutton was in private practice in San Angelo, Texas from 1941-1942 and 1945-1951. lie received his LL.B. (with honors) from the University of Texas in 1941. He spent 1942 until 1945 with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., and was a Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, United States Army Reserve, on reserve duty from 1948 until 1953. He was a Director on the Tom Green County Bar Association Board, 1956, and a member of the International Association of Insurance Counsel. He joined the Law Faculty of the University of Texas in the Fall of 1957 as Professor of Law and he lectures in courses on Contracts, Criminal Law, Agency Partnership and Legal Profession. JOHN F. SUTTON, JR. Professor of Law Born in 1920, Mr. Thode received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois in 1943 and his LL.B. from the University of Texas in 1950. He became Briefing Attorney for the Supreme Court of Texas from 1950 until 1951, and was also Assistant Attorney General of Texas from 1951 until 1952. He was in private practice from 1952 until 1955, and then became a Lecturer at the University of Texas School of Law in 1955. Mr. Thode also served in the United States Army from 1943 until 1946 and was Assistant Defense Counsel, War Crimes Trials, Manila, P.I. in 1946. At the Law School, Mr. Thode lectures in courses in Procedure and Torts. E. WAYNE THODE Professor of Law 19