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Sullivan County Lawyers and Judges in 1840s Supreme Court
In the 1842 May term the Indiana Supreme Court remanded State ex rel Morris, auditor Johnson et al for retrial over county funds. Notable figures include Judge John Law of Vincennes, lawyer Craven P. Hester, and William Watson Wick. The piece surveys prominent Vigo Sullivan and surrounding county jurists and their era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
John Law
Vincennes
Chanders Y. Patterson
Common Pleas
Sullivan County
Supreme Court
Morris
Johnson
Cass
William Watson Wick
Indianapolis
Craven P. Hester
Bloomington
Knox
Vigo
Greene
Sullivan
Monroe
Morgan
Owen Counties
Hester
Chitt Y
Stephen Girard
Rockafeller
George Goodwin
Girard
Goodwin
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
South America
Philadelphian
George
Baltimore
New York
Scott
Brokaw
Knox County
Scotts
Brokaws
James Whicomb
James Whitcomb Riley
Judge Law
Samuel Judah
Wabash Valley
John P. Usher
Interior
Lincoln
Whitcomb
United States Senate
William D. Griswold
Terre Haute
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad
J. A. Wright
T. A. Howard
Rockville
Tilghman A. Foward
Texas
van Buren
Clay
North American
Congress
Joseph A. Wright
Berlin
Richard W. Thompson
House of Congress
Thompson
Virginia
Bedford
Lawrence
House
Senate
David Wallace
Illinois
Baker
Austria
Taylor
General Land Office
Fillmore
United States Court of Claims
Hayes
Navy
Panama Canal Company
Scott Et al