The New Forfeiture Clause Test in Executory Contracts for the Sale of Real Estate

The principle of Ashford v. Reese does not yet seem to have come to rest. In the recent case of Aylward v. Lally the supreme court has added another chapter on the legal relationship of vendor and purchaser, the incidents of which in this state at the present time are none too well defined

Report of Board of Governors

The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association is under the statute the executive agency of the Association. We have what is known under our statute as an integrated bar. The powers of the bar are vested in the Board of Governors by statute, with the right of the Board of Governors to make such rules for the governing of the Association as it deems expedient for that purpose

Report of the Judicial Council on Expediting the Work of the Supreme Court

The problem is the work load of the supreme court. According to the two most recent chief justices, Judge Hamley who has just left the rostrum, and Judge Donworth, who is here in the audience, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington is falling rather rapidly behind. In the May term of this year it was impossible for the court to set all of the cases that were ready for assignment. In the September term many cases now ready for assignment will go unset and cannot be set until the January term and the backlog of cases is increasing. Chief Justice Donworth tells me that the court is now more than half a term behind in the backlog of cases. In other words, speaking as of now, probably at the beginning of August, 1956, there are a great many cases now ready for argument which cannot be heard until the January term in court and will not be disposed of, probably, until several months afterward

Report of Committee on the Retirement of Judges

In December of 1946 the Committee on the Selection of Judges circulated the bar with a postcard ballot, covering mandatory retirement of judges at the age of seventy-five. The ballot resulted as follows: Total vote cast .......................... 942 In favor ......................................753 Opposed ...................................144 No opinion .................................. 45 The Committee on the Selection of Judges, which circulated that ballot, suggested a proposed constitutional provision carry compulsory retirement into effect in connection with an appropriate retirement plan to be established by the Legislature. That Committee accepted the view previously expressed by the State Judicial Council (to which the subject had earlier been referred for consideration) that the result could not be attained by legislation, but could only be carried into effect by constitutional amendment

Possible Methods of Relieving the Supreme Court of Washington

In the past several years there has been much discussion among the bench and bar of the state of Washington concerning ways and means for relieving the Supreme Court to some extent, at least, from the ever- increaslng volume of judicial business, in order that the court may devote more time to important causes. Investigation reveals that the volume of opinion-writing required of each judge of the Supreme Court of this state greatly exceeds that imposed upon most of the appellate court judges in the United States. The individual judges of the Supreme Court of this state are each required to write, on the average, seventy-five or more opinions a year, which, counting out the holidays and days spent on the bench, means that but a short time is available for the study of the record in each case and the preparation of an opinion, especially since much time is also consumed by each judge in the study of approximately six hundred opinions prepared in the aggregate by the other eight judges during the same year. In view of these conditions, it is the purpose of this discussion, solely by way of exposition and not by way of advocacy, to present some possible methods of approaching a solution of the problem