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Morgan's Role Of Leadership In Evidence Law Reform, Charles T. Mccormick
Morgan's Role Of Leadership In Evidence Law Reform, Charles T. Mccormick
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are two types of reformer-the meek and insinuating kind that wear down resistance like water falling on a rock, and the scrappy kind that carry the war into the enemy's country. Morgan is of the latter type.Five years active trial practice in Duluth gave him the savor of evidence rules in action.His first campaign for the betterment of evidence law was his work as chairman of a distinguished committee of lawyers, law teachers and judges set up by the Commonwealth Fund to propose reforms in the law of evidence. Under Morgan's leadership the committee "determined to develop a new …