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R. C. Gregory_
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Debt.
Blackford
- Waltz v. Robertson.
J. Reid, S. Perkins
J. Perry, J. Yaryan_
Union
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Pate v. Swann.
G. H. Dunn.
C. Test _-
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J. Liston.
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A. Hammond, S. Major
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Walls v. State.
I. Kiersted.
Decatur
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Blackford. -. Abbott v. Warriner.
W. W. Wick, L. Barbour
Hamilton.
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Shill v. Ferriter.
D. D. Pratt.
A. Robinson, H. P. Biddle __ Jasper.
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J. Reid, S. W. Parker, C. H. Test __ Yaryan, Newman, Rariden.Union.
W. W. Wick_
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Dewey.
Utter v. Vance.
W. W. Wick, L. Barbour_
W. Quarles, J. H. Bradley __ Marion_
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Stonsei v. Abrams.
T. Johnson, J. B. Howe __ IV. H. Coombs_
D. H. Colerick, J. Walpole.
Bigger, Brackenridge,
W. H. Coombs, I. Kiersted __ Allen_
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Dewey-
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R. C. Gregory, D. Brier.
S. S. Brier.
.. Fountain.
.R. Trespass
Dewey __
Fletcher v. Piatt.
C. Hester_
_J. Watts_
Monroe _____. A
Debt.
-Blackford
McDonald v. Hagins.
A. Ingram, R. Jones.
.R. C. Gregory
Tippecanoe __ A
Debt.
-Blackford __
Jackson v. Yandos.
D. S. Major, I. Klersted .J. Ryman_
Dearborn ___. R.
Debt.
Dewey_
State v. Johnson.
C. Test ___
J. Newman
Wayne ___
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A. Hammond.
S. Major.
Tippecanoe __ R.
Nuisance.
-Sullivan.
Ellis v. State.
C. C. Nave _.
O. H. Smith
Ripley. 1
Debt_
Sullivan
Conwell v. Buchanan.
J. Ryman.
.E. Dumont
Dearborn
Debt_
-Sullivan.
Hays v. Walker.
D. D. Pratt.
Clark
Trespass
Blackford - Sutton v. Hays.
S. C. Stevens
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.l. fferson - Title
J. Smith. S. Yandes
W Qnarles, J. Bradley_ -- M:udison_
R.
Debt.
-Sullivan --- Jackson v. Adamson.
J. Chapman, J. Newman
J. Bradley, I. II. Bradley
Laporte
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Patent
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Lomax v. Balley.
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J. Watts_
C. Ilester.
Lawrence --- A .. Replevin
- Blackford_ Barnes v. Tannehill.
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Decatur.
R.
Blackford_ Link v. Clemmens.
G. H. Dunn ...
A. Brown, H. Brown
Vanderburg _. R.
Tax
Blackford ___ State v. Hopkins.
Dubois.
Bail
Dewey_ Thompson v. Harbison.
C. H. Test_
M. S. Ward, S. W. Parker __ Henry_
Johnson v. McLane.
C. Test ..
.S. Parker
Fayette_
A. Slander. -
Trover
Dewey_
.Dumont v. Lockwood.
H. Biddle ....
D. Mace, W. Wright ..
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Sullivan_
Van Vacter v. McKillip.
J. B. Sleeth, J. Ryman
A. Hammond, S. Major
Union.
Obstruction.
Dewey_
Phipps v. State.
G. G. Dunn ..
Lagrange ... .R .. Lease.
Blackford ___ Wood v. Powell.
SUPREME COURT DOCKET, 1816-46.
Hendricks ___ R.
Debt.
-Sullivan.
-Parks v. Hazelrigg.
E. Dumont.
Chapman, Osborne, NIles __ Kosciusko ___. \
Injunction
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Vaniman v. Fairbrother.
H. Thornton
Blackford_ Stevens v. Lodge.
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Blackford Smith v. Buskirk.
Dewey Miller v. White.
J. Pitcher ..
R. Cooper ...
Henry_
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Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Defendant's Attorneys. County. Dec'n.
Cause.
Judge.
Parties.
_Morris v. State.
Smith, Quarles, Bradley_
_A. Hammond.
Marion __-
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G. Orth.
Tippecanoe __ R ..
Debt_
Sullivan.
.. Thompson v. Fry.
Colerick, Walpole, Cooper.
M. Bright.
Jefferson. --
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Counterfeit.
Dewey_
.. State v. Best.
M. Bright.
W. Lyle _.
Jefferson_ A
Foreclosure_
Blackford.
Sheets v. Peabody.
H. Cooper_
D. Colerick_
Huntington ___ R.
Debt.
_Sullivan.
Murray v. Buchanan.
J. Hanna_
W. Bryant_
Parke_
R.
Debt.
-Sullivan
-Thompson v. Weaver.
S. Judah_
.A. Ellis _.
Knox
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-Graeter v. Fowler.
H. Cooper_
W. H. Coombs, I. Kiersted_Allen.
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Sullivan.
Laverty v. Chamberlain.
Kosciusko __ A
Debt_
Dewey-
Blackford ___. Hovey v. Morris.
A. Robinson.
H. Biddle.
Carroll.
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Allen_
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-Sullivan.
-Greggs v. Voorhees.
D. Colerick, J. Walpole.
_Coombs, Brackenridge_
Fletcher, Butler, Yandes, Wright_J. B. Niles, H. Cooper __
. Cass_
A.
Injunction
Sullivan
.Fitch v. Polke.
Porter. R.
Replevin _.
Dewey_
Brewer v. Murray.
J. B. Niles, A. Osborne.
R. Cooper __-
Henry __
R. A.
Debt.
-Sullivan _____ Clark v. State Bank.
C. C. Nave_
Fletcher, Butler, Yandes_
Hancock_ R.
Debt __
Blackford ___. Woodruff v. Dobbins.
W. W. Wick, L. Barbour.
.. R. Brackenridge ..
Allen-
R.
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Blackford ___. Newhouse v. Hill.
A. Brown, H. Brown, W. W. Wick.O'Neal, Quarles, Bradley __ Madison_
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-Sullivan _____ Kindle v. State.
J Ryman ___ __. A. A. Hammond_
Union _- R.
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-Blackford ___ Colson v. State.
A. Hammond, S. Major, F. Finch _. W. Quarles, J. Bradley __ _Johnson. R ..
Mal. Prac ..
.Blackford ___ State v. Vawter.
-Hancock ____ R .. Debt. -Blackford ___ Morrison v. Cones.
Peaslee, Morrison, Major_
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W. H. Coombs, I. Kiersted_Noble __
J. Ryman
J. Bradley _.
Stanfield v. Fetters.
Child_
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Blackford_
.Hart v. Woods.
S. W. Parker.
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Clinton
Tipton
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Boone
Madison
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Henry
Hancock
Parke
Hend- ricks
Marion
Putnam
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Johnson
Vigo
Clay
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Decatur
Monroe
Bartholo- mew
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Lawrence
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The Democrats car- ried all the dic- tricto except the Fifth in 1853.
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CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OF INDIANA IN 1852.
By Ernest V. Shockley.
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Fountain
Montgomery
Shelby
Untony
Franklin URTE
Brown
Dearborn
Martin
Clark
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Kosciusko
Whitley
Allen
Huntington
CHAPTER X.
THE NEW SUPREME COURT-1852-1916.
The Supreme court, as mentioned in Chapter VIII, escaped the period of local legislation more fortunately than any other department of the state government. The only reason for this, no doubt, was the fact that it could not be reached by any method except that of constitutional amendment. Its day of sorrow, however, was not on that account avoided, but only postponed.
It has been stated that the old Supreme court was the pride of the state. Few political events so much aroused the anger of the people as the two attempts to drag the court into party politics. It was generally felt that Governor Ray refused to reappoint Scott and Holman in 1831 for purely personal, selfish reasons. The same was generally felt to be true in the refusal of Governor Whitcomb to reappoint Dewey and Sullivan in 1846 and 1847. The better class of citizens were so completely disgusted at this action by the governor that when the Constitutional convention of 1850 met, there was no one bold enough to defend the old system. It was, moreover, an era when the people were demanding that all officers be elected by popular vote for short periods.
Daniel Kelso went so far in his speech to the convention as to say that under the system of popular election "those who are to decide upon questions of life and liberty, reputa- tion and property, will be composed of better politicians than lawyers; your judicial benches will be filled with a set of bab- bling politicians who are not fit for judges and never will be, yet I believe a majority of the people are in favor of the election of judges by the people." Yet, with that foreboding, he went on to say, "We are for striking down the existing judiciary and forming a judiciary upon a different plan."
The two questions concerning the court that interested the members of the Convention of 1850 were whether there
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should be three or five judges and whether these judges should be elected upon a general or upon a district ticket. Great fear was expressed that if the judges were to be elected on a district ticket it would lead to political gerrymandering.
The essential features of the new Supreme court as finally decided upon were that it should consist of not less than three nor more than five judges; a majority were to constitute a quorum; judges were to be elected from districts on a general ticket; opinions were to be written; state-wide appellate jurisdiction and such original jurisdiction as the General Assembly might confer; a clerk to be elected by the voters of the state; decisions to be published as the General Assembly might direct, but not by any member of the court. This latter clause was aimed at Judge Isaac Blackford, who, it was popularly believed, neglected his judicial work to pub- lish the decisions, thereby making large sums of money from the publication of the reports. There was some truth in the charge. There was a determined effort made to reserve to the court the right to appoint its own clerks, but the demand for popular election was too strong.
By the act of February 19, 1852, the state was divided into four districts, from each of which one judge was to be elected. On the following 13th of May the organizing act of the General Assembly directed the election of four judges. These judges were ordered to open court on the first Monday of January, 1853, in the old house in the Circle, and draw up such rules as were necessary to govern the court's procedure. The judges were authorized to elect one of their own number to preside, each serving only one term and no more, until all members had presided. There were to be two terms of the court each year, one beginning on the fourth Monday of May, the other on the fourth Monday of November.
At the elections, held in October, 1852, in pursuance of the above act, Samuel E. Perkins, Andrew Davidson, William Z. Stuart and Addison L. Roache were elected members of the first Supreme court under the Constitution. Judge Perkins was the only member of the old court elected. He defeated Judge Isaac Blackford in the convention.
William Z. Stuart, who was elected from the First dis- . trict, was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, December 25,
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1811, being the son of Dr. James and Nancy (Allison) Stuart, of Aberdeen, Scotland. Up to the age of fourteen years, he received all his instructions from his mother, a refined and cultivated woman, and at that age went to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to become a drug clerk. Later he went to Boston, again found employment in a drug store, but spent all his spare time in reading medical works with a view of entering that profession. Through the influence of Dr. Kirk, he entered Amherst Academy at Amherst, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst College in 1833. After graduating he became principal of Mayville Academy at Westfield, New York. During the two years he was there he studied law with Judge Osborn. In 1836 he moved to Logansport, Indi- ana, was admitted to the bar (February 20, 1837) and at once began the practice of this profession. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the Eighth judicial circuit in 1844 and served one term. In 1852 he was elected to the Supreme bench of the state for a term of six years over John B. Howe, but resigned, August 15, 1857, to take effect January 12, 1858, to become attorney for the Toledo & Wabash Railroad Com- pany. In 1870 he declined a nomination to the Supreme bench. He was a believer in Presbyterian doctrines, but was not a professor of religion; a Democrat in politics, though moder- ate in partisanship. He married Minerva Potteo at Westfield. New York, in 1838. They had three children, Venetia, Selden P. and Frances H. Mrs. Stuart died in 1846 and Judge Stuart was married in 1849 to Sarah Scribner Benedict, of Vernon, New York. They had four sons, Charles B., Thomas A., Will V. and W. Z. His health became impaired in the spring of 1876 and, with the vain hope of recovering his health, he went to Clifton Springs, New York, where he died, May 6, 1876.
Andrew Davison, who was elected from the Second dis- trict in 1852, was born September 15, 1800, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and educated at Jefferson College, Can- onsburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law with Thomas H. Crawford and in 1825 came to Indiana, seeking a place to recruit his health, and with the hope of finding a favorable location to follow his profession. He was admitted to the bar at Greensburg, Indiana, September 26, 1825, and began prac-
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tice at that place, in a short time becoming a leader in his pro- fession. On January 3, 1853, he took his seat on the Supreme bench of Indiana, having been elected over Charles Dewey. He continued in office until January 2, 1865, a term of twelve years, having been re-elected in the fall of 1858. On April 15, 1839, he married Mrs. Elgin Test. They had one child, Joseph R. Davison. Judge Davison died six years after retir- ing from the Supreme bench.
Samuel Elliott Perkins, who was elected from the Third district in 1852, was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, December 6, 1811, being the second son of John Trumbill and Catherine (Willard) Perkins. He became an orphan at an early age and was adopted by William Baker, a farmer of Camway, Massachusetts, with whom he lived until twenty-one years of age. His early education consisted of three months' annual schooling provided by the state and his own self-instruction. After his majority he pursued his studies alone, and taught school in the summer. His last year as a student was spent at Yates County Academy, New York, where he finished a fair classical education. His legal education was obtained in the office of Thomas J. Navin, and later in that of Henry Welles in Penn Yan, the county seat of Yates county, New York. In 1836 he came alone and on foot from Buffalo, New York, to Richmond, Indiana. He worked for his board in Judge J. W. Borden's office during the first winter. The spring of 1837 saw his admission to the bar at Centerville, Wayne county, Indiana. He then opened up an office at Richmond, Indiana. During the same year he became editor of the Richmond Jeffersonian and assumed control again dur- ing 1839-1840. In 1843 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for the Sixth judicial circuit by Governor Whitcomb. Gov- ernor Whitcomb appointed him in 1845 for one year to the Supreme bench, he being but thirty-four years old and nine years a resident of the state. In 1846 he was nominated for a seat in the Supreme court and confirmed by the Senate. Upon his election to the Supreme court he became a resident of Indianapolis. In 1852 and 1858 he was elected under the new Constitution by the people, thus serving as a judge on the Supreme bench for nineteen consecutive years. He became professor of law at Northwestern Christian University at
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Indianapolis in 1857 and later (1870-72) at Indiana Univer- sity. After much work upon his part he produced the "Indi- ana Digest" (1858) and the "Indiana Practice" (1859), both books being of valuable aid to the profession. In 1868 he became editor of the Indianapolis Herald, the Democratic organ of the state. In 1872 he was appointed by Governor Baker to fill a vacancy on the Superior bench of Marion county, being subsequently (in 1874) elected to the same posi- tion without opposition. The year 1876 again changed the political complexion of the state and he was elected to the Supreme bench of Indiana, and served from January, 1877, until his death at Indianapolis, December 17, 1879. He was a supporter of the principles of Jackson and Jefferson throughout his life. In 1838 he married Amanda J. Pyle, daughter of Joseph Pyle, of Richmond, Indiana. Ten children were born, only one of whom survives, Samuel E. Perkins, now a practicing attorney of Indianapolis.
Addison L. Roache, who was elected from the Fourth dis- trict in 1852 over Samuel B. Gookins, was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, November 3, 1817, and moved to Blooming- ton, Indiana, in 1828. He received his education at the State University, graduating in 1836. After graduation he began the study of law in the office of Gen. Tilghman A. Howard. at Rockville, Parke county. He was admitted to the bar in 1839, starting to practice at Frankfort, going back later to Rockville, Parke county, where he lived until 1859. In 18.17 he was a member of the Legislature from Parke county. Elected to the Supreme bench in 1852, he took office January 3, 1853, but resigned May 2, 1854, to become president of the Indiana & Illinois Central Railroad. In 1859 he formed a, law partnership with Joseph E. McDonald and moved to Indianapolis. The partnership was maintained until the ill health of Roach, eleven years later, compelled him to retire from practice. He served as a trustee of Indiana University from 1857 to 1859, but resigned on going to Indianapolis. He was reappointed in 1878, and at all times took a great interest in promoting the interests of education. Judge Roache was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian church. He married Emily A. Wedding in June, 1842, and to them were born seven children, one son, A. L.
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Roache, Jr., and six daughters. In 1876 he began practicing with his son-in-law, at Indianapolis, the partnership continu- ing until 1887, when he retired. On March 5, 1854, it was announced in the Indianapolis Journal that Judge A. L. Roache had been elected president of the Indiana & Illinois Central Railroad. On the 8th of the month he placed his resignation as Supreme judge in the hands of the Governor. The Indianapolis Journal does not mention the resignation, but on May 10th remarks that Governor Wright had appointed Alvin P. Hovey to the vacant seat. The editor adds face- tiously, "The Great Agriculturalist might have distinguished better between the vegetables submitted for his inspection." The pay of the judges under the new law was twelve hundred dollars per year, a reduction of three hundred dollars from the former salary.
Alvin P. Hovey was born September 6, 1821, in Posey county, Indiana. His education was confined to the common schools of his county, supplemented by hard study after the active work of his life had begun as a lawyer. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He began to prac- tice at Mount Vernon, Indiana, where for several years he devoted himself to his profession. In 1850 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention and distinguished himself to such an extent that he was chosen Circuit Judge of the Third judicial circuit of the state. After three years' service he was appointed (May 8, 1854) judge of the Supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Roache, but held that position only a few months. At the October, 1855, election Judge Hovey and Samuel B. Gookins were opposing candidates for the vacant judgeship. Gookins was elected on the fusion ticket by a large majority over Hovey, who was then a Democrat. He was appointed by President Pierce in 1855 as United States district attorney for Indiana, but was later removed by President Buchanan.
When the Civil War opened he became colonel by the ap- pointment of Governor Morton and served throughout the war. When he was mustered out, October, 1865, he held the rank of major-general. In 1865 he was appointed United States minister to Peru and after holding the position for five years, he resigned in 1870 and returned to Indiana to re-
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sume the practice of law. He was elected to Congress in 1886. In 1888 he was the successful candidate for governor on the Republican ticket, but died in office, November 23, 1891, in the midst of his term. Hovey was married twice; two child- ren survive him, a son and a daughter. His son, Charles James Hovey, resides in Mount Vernon, Indiana, as does his daughter, Mrs. G. V. Menzies.
Samuel Barnes Gookins was born at Rupert, Bennington county, Vermont, May 30, 1809, being the youngest son of William and Rhoda Gookins. In 1812 the family moved to New York and in 1823 Samuel B., his mother and elder brother came to Indiana and settled near Terre Haute. His education was restricted to the county schools. In 1825 his mother died and he lived with the family of Daniel Stringham. In 1830, after a four-year apprenticeship under John W. Osborn, a newspaper editor at Terre Haute, he established the Vincennes Gazette, but a year later returned to work at Terre Haute. In `1832 he entered the law office of Amory Kinney and was admitted to the bar in Terre Haute in 1834. He practiced his profession until 1850, becoming widely known in his part of the state. On July 27, 1850, Governor Wright appointed him to fill a vacancy in Circuit court occasioned by the resignation of John Law. In 1851 he represented Vigo county in the Legislature. In 1852 he was a candidate for Judge of the Supreme court on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. A political revolution having taken place and A. L. Roache resigning from the Supreme bench, Gookins became a candidate against Hovey for the vacant seat, of Roache, and was elected October 10, 1855. On December 10. 1857, he resigned because of ill health and the meager salary and went to Chicago, where he practiced until 1875. He was a frequent contributor to the press, his writings dealing mainly with the slavery problem. Judge Gookins died at his home in Terre Haute, June 14, 1880, having just completed a history of Vigo county.
Two more resignations from the Supreme court occurred before the close of the first six years under the new Consti- tution. Judge Gookins, who in reality resigned on account of the salary, was succeeded by James M. Hanna on Decem- ber 10, 1857. William Z. Stuart, who resigned January 3,
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1858, to become the attorney for the Toledo & Wabash rail- road, was succeeded by James L. Worden. Both these men were candidates in 1858 and will be noticed later.
The work of the new court was particularly onerous and in at least two cases momentous. The Constitution directed the General Assembly to appoint three commissioners to simplify the court procedure, do away with all distinctions between law and equity and also to reduce the statutes to systematic code. The law further required the court to write out and publish its opinions on every case brought before it.
The court had scarcely been organized when the local op- tion law of 1853 came before it and was in large part declared unconstitutional. The fusion Legislature of 1854 passed a prohibitory law, which was declared unconstitutional in De- cember, 1855. The court was charged with partisanship in these decisions. It was this same court that overthrew the first public school law. As a result of these decisions the court lost considerable prestige.
Still another event tended to lower the reputation of the court. Judge Stuart filed his resignation August 4, 1857, the same to take effect January 3, 1858. At the fall election, 1857, Horace P. Biddle, an independent Republican, was elected as his successor by a majority of twenty thousand. The Democratic Governor, A. P. Willard, refused him his com- mission on the ground that there was no vacancy at the time of the election. The Supreme court, all of whom were Demo- crats, upheld him in this and the next day after the decision, January 15, 1858, James L. Worden was appointed to the place.
The first six-year term of the court expired by law in January, 1859, so that it was necessary to elect a new court at the state election of 1858. The Democrats nominated James L. Worden, of Whitley county, for the First district; Andrew Davison, of Decatur county, for the second; Samuel E. Perkins, of Marion county, for the Third; and James M. Hanna, of Vigo county, for the Fourth. The Republicans nominated Horace P. Biddle, of Cass county, for the First dis- trict; Abram W. Hendricks, of Jefferson county, for the Sec- ond; Simon Yandes, of Marion county, for the Third; and William D. Griswold, of Vigo county, for the Fourth. The
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principal fight was made on Judge Perkins. The Democrats were elected by a majority of over three thousand, Perkins running slightly ahead of the others.
James M. Hanna was born in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1816, and died in Sullivan county, Indiana, January 15, 1872. He was appointed to the Supreme court December 10, 1857, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Gookins, and was elected over William D. Griswold, in 1858, serving until January 3, 1865. He did not practice law after he left the Supreme bench. He was a member of the Indiana Senate while a resident of Sullivan county (1833-35). He was a Democrat in politics and during the Civil War sympathized with the South. He had no church affiliations. His family consisted of a wife and three children: a son, Burton G. Hanna, who became a lawyer, and two daughters, one of whom married James Gray, the other becoming the wife of Henry Overholser. Judge Hanna owned a large farm on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, in Curry township, Sulli- van county, from which coal was extensively mined by means of a shaft, the first underground coal mine in the county. He had a residence in Sullivan, on West Washington street.
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