Tolman Co. v. Rice.. 45 N. E. Rep. 496.. 320 ... Traction Co. v. Board of Works.. 103 Atl. Rep. 393. ..... 60 N. J. L. 219. Trenton, &c., Traction Corporation v. Mercer County Tax Board.. 91 N. J. L. 105.... 422 247 81 587 ..... 605 399 Trussell v. Morris County Trac Public Service Corporation .... 39 Sup. Ct. Rep. 117...... 590 Minutes of the proceedings before the Court of Errors and Appeals in the Supreme Court Room at the State House in Trenton, on the twenty-fifth day of June, 1918, upon the occasion of the presentation to the State of New Jersey of a portrait of a former Justice of the Supreme Court, Alfred Reed: Chancellor Walker: "Before proceeding with the calendar, the Court will suspend its usual business and participate in the presentation of the portrait of the former Justice of the Supreme Court, Alfred Reed." HON. GILBERT COLLINS, addressing former Justice Reed, said: "MY DEAR FRIEND-A committee of the Bar asks your assent to the making of a gift to the State of the portrait for which you sat, whereby your outward image may show to those who come after you what manner of man you were. They have requested me to express their sincere affection for you as a man, and their respect for you as a Judge. "It seems only yesterday, though three and forty years have gone since then, that, in talking with Jonathan Dixon who with you had just been appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court on the occasion of its enlargement, I asked him about his colleague, and he replied, 'I don't know him very well myself, but I understand that he is a very able man. Chief Justice Beasley says so, and it is largely on his recommendation I think that Governor Bedle has appointed him.' You soon vindicated his judgment, and for the long time that you served the State in the judiciary you gave satisfaction to all. "You and Justice Dixon were both young men, much younger than your associates. A few years later you were Joined by Justice Magie, who rose to be Chief Justice and later Chancellor, and who has recently passed to the other side; and still later Justice Garrison. The four junior mem bers of the court brought vigor and enthusiam to its duties, supplemented by most pleasant social intercourse. I recall that it was quite common for those who could conveniently do so to gather with Justice Knapp, who had a genius for friendship, and at the end of the week's labor to spend the Saturday afternoon in recreation. I have no doubt that your mind often goes back to that association as a time in your life which probably is the most pleasant in retrospect. "How rapidly the years have gone. The time came when you were a senior member of the court. No one is left of those you joined at the time of your appointment except Justice Van Syckel, now advanced in years, and very few members of the Bar. "We greet you here to-day. We are glad to have the opportunity, while you are still living, to show our regard for you, and to let the people of the State, as well as the Bar, know in what esteem you are held. "I do not wish you to think that this is at all in the nature of a farewell. Upwards of thirteen years ago the Bar met on a similar occasion to present to the State the portrait of Justice Van Syckel, who was then but little younger than you are now. He is still with us, hale and hearty. We hope it will be so with you. Not that you will wish to be active in the profession, but there is a field for men of ripe experience. You can help your younger brethren. Give them the benefit of your counsel and friendship, which all will prize. With the utmost sincerity and earnestness we express the hope that 'at evening time it shall be light.' (The portrait was then unveiled.) Former JUSTICE ALFRED REED then said: "Judge Dixon, the partner of Judge Collins, and I were appointed by Governor Bedle to the Supreme Court bench as the two new judges authorized by the Legislature to, as Judge Collins says, enlarge the Supreme Court. "In dividing up our functions to me fell the first Judicial District. In those days a Supreme Court Justice had a district as they have now, but he performed all the duties or functions, except possibly in Essex County and maybe Hudson, himself, so that for twenty years in the First Judicial District I tried all the Supreme Court issues, Circuit Court issues, all the appeals from Justices of the Peace, the trial business from the Orphans Court and, in Xxxviii |