The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22

out the unexpired term. Field had been
elected on September 2, 1857, for the full
term. This term began on January l,
| 1858. In 1853 President Lincoln appointed
Field one of the Associate Justices of the
! Supreme Court of the United States, and
on May 20 of that year he resigned his seat
on the California bench. The next day
Governor Stanford appointed E. B.
Crocker to fill the vacancy, and he served
until the taking effect of the constitutional
amendments of 1862.
Justice Lyons resigned in March, 1852,
and April 2 Governor Bigler appointed
Alexander Anderson to fill the vacancy.
At the general election in November, 1852,
Alexander Wells was elected for this short
term, and he took his seat on the bench in
January, 1858. Wells was reelected for
the full term at the Septem Der election,
and he assumed Office by virtue of that
election January 4, 1854. He died October
81, 1854, and in November Governor Bigler
appointed Charles II. Bryan to fill the
| vacancy. AT the general election of 1856
David 5. Terry was elected by the people,
| and he assumed Office in Novem ber Terry
resigned September u, 1859 to participate
| in the duel with Senator David C. Broder-
lex. Governor Weller appointed W. w.
Cope to fill the Terry vacancy. Cope had
been elected for the full term at the cleo
ton held September 7, 1859, and he took
office under that election on January 2 fol-
lowing, and served until the remodeling of
the court in 1864.
Justice Bennett resigned in October, 1851,
and Governor McDougal appointed Hugh
c. Murray to fill the vacancy. In Novem-
Der, 1852, Murray was elected to succeed
himself and he took office by virtue of that
election in January following Murray
was elected for the full term in September,
1855, but he died September IS, 1857, and
Governor Johnson appointed Peter III.
Burnett to succeed him. At the next gen.
eral election Joseph G.. Baldwin was elected
to fill the remainder OF the vacancy and he
| assumed Office in October, 1858. In Sep
TENDER, 1861, Edward Norton was elected
for the full term. Norton took office in
January following and served until the
! change was effected by the adoption of the
| constitutional amendments of 1862.
In 1862 the State constitution was
amended to constitute the Supreme Court
OF Chief Justice and four Associate JUS
tices, and it provided that the Justices
should be elected at special elections to be
provided for by law. at which elections
only judicial and school officers should be
elected. 1t provided further:
The first election for Justices of the Supreme
| Court shall be held in the year 1868. The
Justices shall hold their offices for the term of
ten years from the first day of January next
after their election, except those elected at the
| first election who at their first meeting shall
SO classify themselves, by lot, that one Justice
shall go out OF Office every two years. The Jus
! tice having the shortest term to serve shall be
| Cher Justice.
| In March, 1868, the Legislature passed
an act providing that there should be held
on the third Wednesday in October 1868
and every two years thereafter, an election
to be called the Especial Judicial Elec-
tlon," at which should be elected the
Supreme Justices and other judicial and
school officers. In April an act was passed
to provide for the organization of the new
| court, and 1t was enacted that when a vacan-
cy should occur the Governor should I'LL it
bv the appointment ola person, who should
hold until the next judicial election, ard
the Justice elected by the people at such
election should hold Office for the balance
of the uneXpired term. 1t was also pro-
vided that the terms of the curt should
be held at the seat of government. The
salaries of the Justices were fixed at $4,000
each. The salaries have not since been
changed.
Under the constitutional provision, on
| October q, 1863, Oscar L. Shafter, Lorenzo
| Sawyer, Silas w. Sanderson, John Curry
and A. l.. Rhodes were elected Supreme
Court Justices. The new court organized
| January =, 1864, and in accordance with
! law, the Judges drew lots TO determine
the tenure of their official terms, with the
following result: Shafter drew for ten
years, Rhodes for eight Sawyer for six,
| curry Tor tour ana SanderSOn for two.
Justice Sanderson was reelected to sue
coed himself in October, 1865. He resigned
in January, 1870. Governor Haight ap-
pointed Jackson Temple to fill the vacancy
October, 1871, Addison c. Niles was elected
Justice to fill tie vacancy He took the
office January following, and remained on
the bench until the new constitution took
effect.
Royal T. Sprague was elected to succeed
Curry III October, 1867 and took office in
January. 1868, bul died February a, 1872,
and in March Governor Booth appointed
Isaac S. Belcher to fill the vacancy. In
October, 1873, Elisha W. McKinstry was
elected to the office. McKinstry took Of
flee January, 1874, and served until the
reorganization of the court under the new
constitution.
| In October, 1869, William T. Wallace