Abstract :
A LAWYER who represents a railroad company develops a great deal of temerity in invading fields of discussion reserved for experts. I doubt that there is any other industry in the United States that has so many ramifications of distinct activities as the railroad, and in which the lawyer is called upon to participate. The result of that situation is that we become amateurs in all lines and experts in none. I, therefore, speak before this organization of highly specialized minds with a great deal of diffidence. And the only way in which I can hope, so to speak, to get away with it is to keep entirely away from your field of terminology and lead you as far as I can into the territories that I understand, with the hope of making apposite the points that I would like to make with respect to this subject matter.
