From:  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Montana, 1892; Catahoula Par.,
Louisiana
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Eleventh day of October Term, Monday, October 19th
Copy of Record
The committee on memorial and resolutions, relative to the
death of Hon. M. J. Liddell, ex-Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Montana, through its chairman,
Hon. Decins S. Wade, reported the following: —
May it please the Court: The committee heretofore appointed
by your honors to present resolutions in memory of the death
of Hon. Moses J. Liddell, makes the following report: —
To the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the State of Montana :
Your committee appointed to draft an expression of respect for
the memory of Hon. Moses J. Liddell, late Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana, who died
at his home in the city of Bozeman on the 4th of October,
1891, respectfully report: —
The deceased was a son of General St. John R. Liddell, and
was born at Llanada Plantation, in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana,
on the 15th of January, 1845. At the commencement of the
Civil War, he entered the service of the Confederate States as
a lieutenant in the Eighteenth Louisiana Regiment, and for
two years served in the army of Virginia, after which he was
assigned to staff duty with the Confederate forces in Kentucky.
At the close of the war, he resumed and completed his studies
at the State University of Louisiana, and thereafter qualified
himself for the legal profession and was admitted to the bar in
1872. In 1876 and 1877, he was a member of the State legislature
of Louisiana.
From 1872 he practiced law in the courts of his native State
until 1888, when he was appointed by President Cleveland
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of
Montana. He served in that position from April of that year
to November, 1889, when the Territory was admitted into the
Union, after which he resumed the practice of his profession as
a member of the bar of Montana. His opinions delivered during
his term of service on the bench are published in the
seventh, eighth, and ninth volumes of Montana Reports.
Judge Liddell greatly commended himself to his associates
of the Supreme Court and to the bar by his extensive knowledge
of the law, his ready apprehension of principles, his diligent
devotion to his duties, and his firm purpose that the court
of which he was a member should fulfill to the utmost its high
office of rendering justice to litigants. His unassailable integrity
was buttressed in a sincere love of the right for its own
sake, and his genial and courteous manners were but the outward
sign of his genuine kindliness of heart.
Wherefore, be it resolved: That we recognize in the death of
the late Moses J. Liddell the premature loss of an associate of
superior ability, comprehensive learning, and unsullied purity
of life, and one whose amiable traits of private character endeared
him to all who enjoyed the high privilege of his acquaintance.
That we tender to the family of the deceased our heart-felt
sympathy, and the assurance that the memory of the husband
and father who has gone from them will be cherished in affection
and respect by his associates of the bench and bar of
Montana.
That the clerk of this court be directed to transmit an engrossed
copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
DECIUS S. WADE, N. W.
McCONNELL,
THOS. C. BACH,
EOBT. B. SMITH,
ALEX. C. BOTKIN,
Committee.
In behalf of the committee, ex-Chief Justice Wade spoke as
follows: —
It is the wish of the committee, if the court please, to have
these resolutions spread upon the enduring records of this court.
It is difficult to express in mere words our deep sorrow for
the loss of Judge Liddell.
He had earned honorable distinction in his native State, and
he arrived in Montana in the prime of his life, well equipped
and qualified to take upou himself the burdens and responsibilities
of his high office.
VOL. XL— 38.