DEFENSE IS GIVEN COURT VERDICT IN AMES COMPETITION

By the decision of a divided court, with one court justice dissenting for the first time in eighteen years, the Wilson Club Friday night defeated the Pollock Club in the finals of the 1934-1935 Ames Competition, held at Langdell Hall.

According to the terms of the trial, a trustee had absconded with the bonds of a trust fund and had sold them to the defendant, who had resold them.

Henry II. Davis, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Ontario, was the dissenting judge, breaking the precedent of unanimity which has marked the Ames Competitions for almost two decades. Both of the other judges, Charles A. Goss, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and Morris A. Soper, United States Circuit Justice for the Fourth Circuit, gave decisions of acquittal for the defendant.

The case for the defense was upheld by Robert D. Blaiser 3L and Robert C. Vincent 3L of the Wilson Club, with Walston S. Brown 3L, Gustav H. Dongus 3L, Adolph G. Emhardt, Jr. 3L, Winston B. McCall 3L, and Thomas A. Wilson 3L on the brief. Charles S. Maddock 3L and Martin A. Jurow 3L of the Pollock Club argued for the plaintiff, and four third year law men, Norman Macbeth, Jr. 3L, David G. Marvin 3L, Wilson W. Phelps 3L, and George E. Ray 3L, served on the brief.