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relations that continued without a break, and with ever in- 

 creasing strength, until his death. One of his marked char- 

 acteristics was constancy, with warm-hearted devotion to his 

 associates and friends. 



"Early in his career as a lawyer he became identified as 

 attorney of record and one of the hardest working of an array 

 of counsel in the notable series of cases known as the St. 

 Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church cases, which involved 

 almost every phase of ecclesiastical law relating to that de- 

 nomination. These cases lasted from 1890 to 1900 and were 

 regarded as of such importance to the profession that they 

 were collected and published together in Abbott's 'New Cases.' 



"Another noteworthy litigation in which Mr. Shipman was 

 leading counsel was that of National Protective Association 

 V. Cummings, in which he maintained the right of members 

 of one labor union to work unmolested by members of rival 

 labor unions. That was a case of labor against labor, not one 

 of labor against capital ; the cause of the litigation was that 

 there were too many laborers in one craft — then a new phase 

 of the complex labor situation. Mr. Shipman had not hitherto 

 been identified with the laws relating to labor organizations, 

 but at the request of an old-time client, who had been wholly 

 prevented from the opportunity to labor, he took up the case 

 and carried it through all the Courts with the utmost industry 

 and ardor. The principles for which he fought are now firmly 

 established. 



"Still another remarkable case in which Mr. Shipman was 

 one of the leading counsel, was the Hopkins Will case, in 

 which it was held that, notwithstanding the physical cancel- 

 lation of the signature to a will found in the testator's desk 

 (the cancellation consising of a number of pen strokes drawn 

 across the signature) the instrument was entitled to probate, 

 in the absence of proof that the testator intended to revoke 

 the will. 



"Mr. Shipman acted as trial counsel in many other litiga- 

 tions of importance, but he preferred constructive work in the 

 law of real property, wills and corporations. 



"At the time of the St. Stephen's cases, to which reference 

 has been made, Mr. Shipman had no thought that his talents 

 as a lawyer would again be required in the realms of ec- 

 clesiastical law, but during the last fifteen years of his life — 



