LETTERS: Attorney remembers Meyer
To the Editor:
I read with deep regret the passing of Bill Meyer, late editor of your paper and a gentleman who served on a federal court jury trial that I tried in Wichita in front of Judge Kerr, a visiting judge from Wyoming.
The case had been tried previously to the late Arthur Stanley, was reversed in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and sent back to Wichita for trial. Bill was selected as one of the jurors and he told me later that a Mexican-American man who had served in World War II with him was seated right beside him during the trial and it was the first time they had seen each other since the war.
As I remember, Bill called me in Hays, or I called him, one way or the other and he told me that he had gone to one year of law school, was the foreman of the jury, and the plaintiff, Hobart Young, a country Methodist minister, received a verdict at that time which was adequate to reimburse him (Young) for his medical expenses and some of his disabilities.
I have talked from time to time with Bill Meyer, although my only personal acquaintance with him was during that jury trial. We always enjoyed each other in talking about politics, legal questions, etc. I note in Tim Unruh's article, published in the Salina Journal, when he quoted Bill's son Eric, by saying, "Bill perked up the paper and that he was controversial." In my short relationship with Bill Meyer, I would say that Eric hit the nail on the head.
The beautiful town of Marion, as I viewed it on the few times I have been in court in your community, has lost a stalwart.
Thomas C. Boone
