Excerpt from Address to the Law Class at the University of North Carolina, 31 January, 1919 A census of the cases in our Supreme Court for the last year show that on an average appeals get to that Court in four and one-half years after summons issues. We have had cases there that have been pending twenty years, and indeed one case had been in court sixty years. N 0 other business in the world could stand this method of procedure, and as a matter of fact a very large portion of litigation dies in the process, with wrongs unredressed and rights unadjudged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.