Before three of America's most distinguished jurists, the final argument of the Ames competition will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the court room of Langdell Hall. The case, as presented to the justices by representatives of the Scott and Lowell Clubs, brings to a close the legal tournament in which every member of this year's graduating class in the Harvard Law School has participated during his three years at the School.

The justices at the Court of Ames will hear the oral arguments of T. H. Eliot 3L and F. H. Sloss 3L of the Scott Club, and J. J. Fine 3L and J. B. Messitte 3L of the Lowell group. They are the Hon. T. Scott Offutt judge of Court of Appeals of Maryland; the Hon. Walter Emanuel Treanor, judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana; and the Hon. James O'Malley, justice of the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate division.

The hypothetical case which has been under preparation by the two clubs since the last week in November deals primarily with the law of agency and equity. The Scott Club will present the arguments for the plaintiff while the Lowell Club speakers will talk from the defendants' brief. The case involves a newspaper editor who was sued for libel, won the trial, and proceeded to demand recompensation from its owner for the costs of defending the newspaper.

The Ames competition, which occupies the spare time of the students, giving them practical legal training, begins with 60 clubs, in the first-year class. The students are divided up into these groups which are named after well-known graduates of the Harvard Law School. All but eight are eliminated by the third year, by means of the contests in which picked members of each club argue on opposite sides of a hypothetical case. The Scott Club, named after Professor A. W. Scott, defeated the Pound society, named in honor of Roscoe Pound, dean of the Law School, while the Lowell Club, which takes its name from the Harvard president, won against the Sayre Club.