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judges am to try a case that used to be involved a
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hundred dollars, automobile accident, contract, maybe
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today a thousand dollars, five hundred or fifteen hundred,
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but you don't need a judge of that status at all to
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dispose of a multi-million dollar estate or pass on legal
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questions involving many thousands of dollars day after
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day. I have never been able to understand this.
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You know and I know that I was in your court
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on a matter involving well over a hundred thoussand
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dollars within the past few weeks. I was before one of
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the Orphans Courts in the counties involving an estate
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which was something like $800,000, then had a direct
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appeal from the Orphans Court to the Court of Appeals
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But the Orphans Court judges had to make the intial
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distinction.
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It seems to me -- and I think the
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entire Committee and entire Commission is absolutely in
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agreement on these propositions -- that probate work
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is important and that it is just as important as auto-
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mobile accidents and contracts and other kinds of litiga-
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tion that go on day after day in the courts of general
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