James v. Tax Investment Co.

A sympathetic nature is in my judgment one of the finest attributes a man can have. After all, Judges are but human beings. It is only natural that sometimes their sympathies should reach in and react upon their processes of reasoning. It is a normal reaction that is to be guarded against at all times. With all deference I greatly fear that the majority of the Court has allowed their finer feelings of sympathy for the appellants, who are unschooled and unlettered Negroes, to deeply affect their judgment, and that such is reflected in the majority opinion.

But, as said in Tarver v. Lindsey, 161…