Western Law Reporter

Twelve volumes

Half leather; marbled boards worn and rubbed through at corners and edges; vol. 2 front cover marked in ink; vols. 5-6 small closed tears to covers at bottom; vols. 9-10 covers stained. Spines creased, worn (esp. spine text on vols. 6 and 9), and rubbed at head and heel (esp. vol. 3); vols. 1-3 and 7-8 spines separating from boards at joints (vol. 7 spine fully separated from front board); vols. 3 and 8-9 small closed tears at head/heel. Edges and pages age-tanned. Vol. 11 spine cracked in several places. Front endpapers stamped and signed by previous owners. A few pages chipped/torn (in vols. 1, 3-4, and 11), some pages marked in ink (in all vols. except vol. 2), a few pages lightly stained/soiled (in vols. 4, 6, 8 and 10); vast majority of pages clean.

Issued bi-weekly 1905-1916, the “Western Law Reporter” published court decisions from western Canada’s provinces and territories. Volumes 1-12 contain issues published Feb. 1, 1905 through Mar. 22, 1910, and each volume includes case name and subject indexes. Based on stamps and signatures, these volumes belonged to two noteworthy Saskatchewan lawyers. Thomas D. Brown (1875-1931) practiced law in Regina. He worked with the Law Society of Saskatchewan, serving as its first examiner in 1907 before being appointed Dean of Westmore Hall (a law school sponsored by the Society, absorbed into the University of Saskatchewan in 1922) in 1913. Brown edited several periodicals including the “Saskatchewan Law Reports” and “Western Weekly Reports.” Michael Stechishin (1888-1964) worked as an articling student for John G. Diefenbaker before establishing his own practice in Yorkton in 1921. Stechishin became a District Court Judge at Wynyard in the 1940s and played a foundational role in the early history of Canada’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Errata.