Obituary

Robert McKay, K. C., a brief notice of whose death on November 6 last was printed in the December Journal, was an outstanding member of the legal profession in Toronto, exceptionally well qualified for handling electrical litigation. With an analytic mind and large intellectual faculties, he had a fundamental scientific knowledge which rendered it easy to grasp engineering questions involved in complicated cases. During several years past he was engaged in litigation involving some very intricate technical and legal questions in controversy between large power interests at Niagara, some of the questions being the outgrowth of emergency conditions arising during the war. In this connection several members of the Institute have been called as experts. Mr. McKay belonged to the Toronto Section of the Institute, and probably few members of the Institute have been more interested and faithful readers of the Transactions or have taken more active pride in their affiliation with the Institute. His sudden death at the age of 53, resulting from blood poisoning following an operation, was a shock to his many friends.