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Notices to Quit

<£ PEOPLE

sometimes

cause

a

great

deal

of

inconvenience to themselves and to others," said

Judge Shannon, President of the Circuit Court,

when giving a decree for possession to a landlord,

<! by refusing to accept rent after serving a notice

to quit. Many people, said the learned Judge,

thought

that

the acceptance of rent

in such

circumstances was equivalent to a waiving of the

notice. The acceptance of rent did not waive the

notice. He was sure that solicitors would advise

their clients as to cases in which rent could be

accepted without prejudice and he hoped that

would be done in future.

It was very unfair to a

man who was willing to pay his rent regularly,

to have a year's arrears accumulating against him."

(Irish I^aiv Times and Solicitors' journal,

May 8th, '48.)

Heir Chasers

" A DECISION ofgreat importance to Irish beneficiaries

of American estates has been given in- the Supreme

Court of California, where a lower court judgment

upholding the validity of assignments made by

beneficiaries of the estate of William G. Butler,

deceased,

to Walter C. Cox of Chicago, who

described himself as

' probate research expert,'

was reversed unanimously. The case was brought

to the Supreme Court at the instance of the Irish

Consul at San Francisco. The Irish beneficiaries,

who had executed documents and a Power of

Attorney to Cox, assigning to him one-third of

their interests, plus costs and attorney's fees, sub

sequently consulted Mr. Maurice McGrath, Solicitor,

Cork, who reported the matter to the Department

of External Affairs. The then Irish Consul in San

Francisco, Mr. Matthew Murphy, who took up the

case at the request of the Department, retained

the services of a San Francisco Attorney—Mr.

John B. Ehlen—and

eventually

succeeded

in

obtaining the Supreme Court decision in favour

of the Irish heirs. The Governor of California

has said that the Irish , Consul had rendered an

important public service by his prosecution of

the case."

(The Irish IMJV Times and Solicitors' Journal,

February

yth, 1948).

EXAMINATION RESULTS

AT the Intermediate Examination for apprentices

to solicitors, held in June, the following passed :—

Passed with Merit

i. Joseph J. Grace.

2. Liam D. McGonagle.

3. Vincent Walsh. 4. Timothy J. Casey.

5. Kevin

J. Walshe.

6. Joseph J. Hughes.

7. Walter P.

Maguire.

Passed

Christopher Beatty, William L. Carroll, Thomas

M. L. Coyle, Andrew P. Curneen, Dermot Curran,

John A. Dillon, John B. Fitzgerald, Richard F,

Gallagher, Bridget Hynes, Kathleen Lenehan,

Michael V. Mitchell, Cornelius J. Noonan, Louis J.

Noonan, Patrick J. Noonan, Norman A. Peilow,

Philip P. Reilly, Daniel G. Shields, Patrick J.

Skehan, Michael M. Smyth.

Thirty-eight

candidates

entered;

twenty-six

passed ;

eleven failed ;

one did not

t

attend.

OBITUARY

THE Council regret to record the death of Mr.

WILLIAM H. MANNING, who was senior clerk in

the Society's office, and was

in

the Society's

employment for the past thirty-nine years.

Mr. Manning was well known to members and

was esteemed for his courtesy and devotion to

duty. He was at one time well known as an amateur

actor in the City and while with the Old Dublin

Minerva Players received awards for his portrayal

of Shakespearean characters. He was

also

for

many years a member of St. Bartholomew's choir.

MR. PETER L. -MACARDLE, Solicitor, died at his

residence, Stapleton Place, Dundalk,

on nth

June, 1948.

Mr. Macardle served his apprenticeship with

the late John Louis Scallan of 17 Bachelor's Walk

and 25 Suffolk Street, Dublin, was admitted in

Michaelmas Sittings, 1894, and practised in Dundalk.

APPOINTMENT

Vacancy

for Post of Special Com

missioner of Income-Tax in the Office

of the Revenue Commissioners.

THE Minister for. Finance invites applications for

a

post of special Commissioner of Income-Tax.

The post at present carries a salary of £1,450 a

year (Man).

Candidates must be practising barristers

or

solicitors in the state of not less than six years'

standing.

The post is unestablished and non-pensionable.