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(Stone, J.). Ꮓ (Stone, J.)... Zimmermann v. Dawson. (Duncan, J.)..... MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS ON THE DEATH OF THE HON. SIMEON P. SHOPE On Thursday, June 3, 1920, at two o'clock in the afternoon, which hour had been set apart for the purpose, the following proceedings were had: Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE DUNN: This hour has been designated for services in honor of the memory of the late Simeon P. Shope. Mr. John M. Zane, of Chicago, chairman of the committee appointed by the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association for that purpose, will present a memorial. Mr. JOHN M. ZANE: May it please the court-The Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, acting jointly, have adopted resolutions upon Judge Shope's death, and they have directed a committee, of which they have done me the honor to make me chairman, to present them to the court. I request your honors' permission to read them: "The ultimate sanction of the law, the life-giving force by which it has lived from generation to generation, the basis of the hope it gives for the future, and its successful and orderly administration in the present, all are found in the ability, the worth and character of those who devote their lives to its practice and adjudica tion. Therefore the profession feels it as a solemn duty to record that those who during life have done their part to keep burning the sacred fire upon the altar of justice are worthy of remembrance and that their name in influence liveth forevermore. Lately there has passed from among us one whom we deem entitled to have, and who will have, this remembrance. "Our deceased brother, Simeon Peter Shope, was one of the best examples of the typical American lawyer. The architect of his own fortunes, he owed all that he was to his innate ability and character. Born in Ohio in 1834, taken in his earliest years to Illinois, admitted to the bar in 1858 and dying but a short time ago, the long span of sixty-two years was passed either as judge or lawyer. Nature to him had shown her choicest favors. She gave him a keen, open and discriminating mind, a powerful intellect, a steadfastness of application and a genuine love of law and of justice. She had made him a large-hearted, generous and kindly man, with a ready sympathy for human suffering and misfortune. She had dowered him with a stately and magnificent stature, a noble and imposing presence, with a readiness of thought and of memory, an impressive and sound eloquence, a fluency and ease of speech. To these advantages were added a simple and delightful courtesy, a straightforward, democratic manner, and a social charm that endeared him to all who came within the influence of his personality. He was one selected for success among his fellow-men and he early became a marked figure in the profession. "He served this State with zeal and uprightness in the legislature. For almost two terms he was a judge of the tenth circuit and for one term a member of our Supreme Court. As a judge his patience and courtesy, his quickness of apprehension, his readiness to hear argument and to court discussion, his willingness to submit his judgment to authority, his usefulness in conference with his associates, his genuine desire to advance the interests of truth and justice, entitle him to be called one of the greatest of those who have given honor and reputation to our bench. He gladly retired from the bench, after a total service of seventeen years, to become a practicing lawyer in Chicago, and he remained until his death in a position of esteem and honor among his brethren at the bar. As a practicing lawyer none of us has anything to recall of him that mars our remembrance of a lawyer of pre-eminent ability, who relied solely upon the law and fair dealing. In all his service as a lawyer he never failed to recognize what was due to the courts and to his colleagues at the bar. He paid his debt to the profession by lecturing at one of the law schools in Chicago and by striving to inculcate the best traditions of our order. All of us can recall many public occasions when his eloquent words were heard, impressing upon his fellow-men the great truth that all orderly social existence and fair government depend upon the faithful administration of the law and an undeviating respect and support of the tribunals of justice. "In admiring recognition of his faithful life, of his splendid abilities, of his service to his country as a judge, a lawyer and a citizen, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association do make this exposition of the life and this estimation of the worth of our lamented brother and do adopt the following resolutions: "Resolved, that in the death of Simeon Peter Shope, lately a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and of the Chicago Bar Association, we deplore the death of a great judge, a great lawyer, a good man, and of one who lent dignity and honor to our profession; that we here record our sense of personal loss and bereavement of him whose kindly charm of manner and genius for social intercourse endeared him to all his associates; that we gratefully bear witness to the high example of one who during many years of service, both at the bar and upon the bench, has done much to illuminate and to advance the science of jurisprudence; that we here avow the confident belief that one who not only by his life and example has taught, but who on every possible occasion never failed to raise his powerful voice to teach, reverence for the law and respect for judicial tribunals, has done a great service to his native land and has deserved well of the Republic. "And be it further resolved, that a copy of these our estimation and resolutions be presented to the Supreme Court of Illinois with the request that they be made a record of the court, and that a copy of these resolutions and of the proceedings of the court thereon be presented to each of the grandchildren of Judge Shope, that in after years they may know them." |