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Dated, NEW YORK, December 13, 1913.

Chairman Olney:

Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of introducing to you the president elect. (Applause.)

Francis Lynde Stetson, of New York:

I move a vote of thanks be tendered the chairman pro tem. for the eminently satisfactory way in wlrich he has discharged his duty.

President Parker assumed the chair.

The motion was duly seconded and carried.

The President:

Gentlemen, I thank you for the compliment. Is there anything under the head of miscellaneous business? Henry A. Forster, of New York:

Mr. President, a good deal was said in regard to the length of hypothetical questions, and I wish to say that

there is one Court of Appeals decision in an action for work, labor and services, which approves of a very simple and short form of hypothetical question, that could, if attorneys saw fit to use it, be used to advantage in many other classes of cases. Without further comment I will read: "In McCollum v. Seward, 62 N. Y., 316, the following hypothetical question was sustained: What were his services, as he (plaintiff) described them, worth a month taking the whole year round?'"

The Court say (62 N. Y., 318):

"This was equivalent to asking him, ‘Assuming that the services rendered were as described by the plaintiff what were they worth? It left the jury to pass upon the credibility of the testimony upon which the opinion was based." I can only say that if that form of hypothetical question was used more there would not be a reproach of a hundred or two hundred pages of hypothetical questions as there is in some cases.

DISCUSSION

ON WORKMEN'S

COMPENSATION;

THE POLICY AND PRACTICE AS SET FORTH
IN THE STATUTE PASSED AT THE RECENT
EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE LEGIS-

LATURE

The President:

I should say to the Association that Mr. Dwight, who was the chairman of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce on Workmen's Compensation, Mr. Frank V. Whiting, chief claim attorney for the New York Central, Mr. Miles W. Dawson and William H. Hotchkiss of the New York Bar have kindly consented, at the request of the committee of which Mr. Campbell is chairman, to discuss various features of the Compensation Act and they are

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