One morning the telephone rang and we were asked about how to deliver a telegram to a man whom we happened to know but who had just moved into the neighborhood. Of course, we gave the information, but when they delivered the telegram he was surprised to find he had been identified so quickly and he said, “How did you ever know where to find me?” “Oh,” said the telegraph man, “that was easy. We just called the Justice of the Peace:” (Laughter) So I claim that I am the first damn Yankee to be made a Virginia judge as quick as that.
Publication Date
December 8, 1947
Citation
58 Va. St. Bar Assn. Proc. 21 (1947), republished in Va. Bar Assn. News Journal 11-17 (2007) (address before the Virginia State Bar Association, Roanoake, Aug. 8, 1947).
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One morning the telephone rang and we were asked about how to deliver a telegram to a man whom we happened to know but who had just moved into the neighborhood. Of course, we gave the information, but when they delivered the telegram he was surprised to find he had been identified so quickly and he said, "How did you ever know where to find me?" "Oh," said the telegraph man, "that was easy. We just called the Justice of the Peace:" (Laughter) So I claim that I am the first damn Yankee to be made a Virginia judge as quick as that.
