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MR. ENEY: You would agree, I am sure, with
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the proposition I said the Commission certainly was in
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favor of, namely, that the judges exercising probate
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function should have the same status, same dignity,
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same salary, same pensions, same tenure as any other
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judges of courts of general jurisdiction.
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JUDGE FRIEDMAN: I am for that a hundred
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per cent personally. Are you for that, Judge?
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JUDGE COLGAN: That's an interesting
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question. I am all in favor of increasing the jurisdic-
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tion of the probate court because we are hamstrung by
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that horrible section in the Code. Mr. Gans urged its
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repeal in 1913.
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I speak in deference to a man here with
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twelve years experience. I look at it in this light.
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There are not many things that cannot be cured by a
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few simple deletions in the statutes and perhaps a few
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additions .
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Whether we are to get up to the Supreme
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Bench level is in the hands of the people of the state.
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It would be nice but I reiterate and I agree, I am not
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