Jaffe Club Wins In Quarter-Final Ames Arguments

Jaffe Law Club won a close decision over Gladstone-Webster last night in the second of the quarter-final Ames debates held at Langdell courtroom.

Second year students Richard J. Barrett and Monroe H. Freedman of Jaffe were the winning finalists, while Gladstone-Webster was represented by Edward Eyre and Richard J. Feinberg, Freedman and Barnett will argue in the semi-finals next fall as third year students.

The two clubs argued a case of conflicting laws in two states, Florida and a mythical "Commonwealth of Ames." The question involved whether an oral agreement not to change a will, which was legal when made in Florida, should be invalidated in "Ames" where the agreement was not legal.

Eugene A. Hudson, Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and lawyers Ralph G. Boyd '22 and Charles W. Blood '99, who served as judges, found all the briefs "exceptionally well written" but gave Jaffe the decision.

Last Tuesday, Gardner defeated Frankfurter Law in the first of the Ames quarter finals.

The Ames arguments will continue next week.