Viewing Literature Category (10) found:John W. Arctander: "Guilty?" (1910).John William Arctander was born in Sweden in 1849, received a university education in Norway and migrated to the United States in 1871. He relocated to Minnesota in 1874, and was admitted to the bar soon thereafter. He set up shop in Minneapolis in 1880, and developed a large practice, especially ... Melville Davisson Post: "A St. Valentine's Adventure." (1912)."A St. Valentine's Adventure" is the story of a young widow who seeks Randolph Mason's aid to return $25,000 left by her husband, who was the clerk of a circuit court in a Western state. This money was deposited with him by a railroad corporation to pay owners of land it was awarded in condemnation... Melville Davisson Post: "The Interrupted Exile." (1912)."The Interrupted Exile? is the story of how Randolph Mason "corrected" a complex financial scheme that threatened to ruin a trusting coal company operator by spotting a "scrivener's error" --- in other words, legal malpractice.
Melville Davisson Post: "The Copper Bonds" (1912).Reprising his role as guardian of the innocent against robber barons, Randolph Mason outwits a "copper emperor" who had duped the treasurer of a Michigan county into persuading landowners in the county to sell him their mineral rights. Those rights become valuable after vast deposits of copper are d... Melville Davisson Post: "The Intriguer" (1912).To end a protracted strike by coal miners that will soon bankrupt a huge railroad, Randolph Mason must negotiate the resignation of the U. S. Marshall whose condition for leaving office is to be granted control over the railroad. As he formulates his plan to outwit the Marshall, Mason is perplexed b... Melville Davisson Post: "The Life Tenant" (1912).In "The Life Tenant" Randolph Mason successfully negotiates the sale of his tubercular client's interest in a coal field in West Virginia to a large coal company simply because he knows more about the mining law of that state. During the tense negotiations, Mason insults, threatens and lectures the... Melville Davisson Post: "The Land Pirate." (1912).To his eternal regret, Captain Roger Shelton, a "financial buccaneer," consulted Randolph Mason for confidential business advice on how to close a real estate transaction without exposing his own duplicity. It did not take Mason long to understand that Shelton aimed to buy parcels of land lying abov... Melville Davisson Post: "My Friend at Bridge." (1912)."My Friend at Bridge," a short story by Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930), about Randolph Mason, an ingenuous New York lawyer, was published in the October, 18, 1912, edition of The News-Messenger, a newspaper in Marshall, Minnesota. ... Melville Davisson Post: "The District Attorney" (1912)."The District Attorney" is the story of how Randolph Mason, a bookish, eccentric and very devious New York lawyer, secures the dismissal of criminal charges against his gullible, elderly client by entrapping a corrupt United States District Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri. It was published in The ... DeWitt Clinton Cooley: "The High Old Court of Impeachment." (1878)After Judge Sherman Page's impeachment trial concluded with his acquittal in June, 1878, DeWitt Clinton Cooley, a prominent St. Paul lawyer, published a three-act play about the proceedings. It was a wicked farce. Cooley lampooned the state senate, which had styled itself "The High Court of Impeach... |