Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-10-08

form. as the plaintiff in his declaration
hatb alIeoed. and therefore find forth'
nIaintiff. % dollars and "a cents dam
aoes and his costs, signed Frederlch
Mann. foreman. Costs taxed at dollars
39.4g cts. Appealed by Delt. EDel
Brown rec0. i'm 200 dollars. ! notice
that the sion of the l.. 5. currency !,
NOT used but that the words dollars and
cents are written out in full each time.
The other jurors were samuel barilet''
Joseph Pennoch, Phineas Mouitoi'
STEPHEN Fisk. Daniel Burroughs, Ed-
mund Bacon. Joshua Lathrop, Jede-
diah Griswold. Abel Camp, Jr., John
Moody and Ichabod Ormsby. Many 81
the snrnamcs still appear in the panels
of iurors i'm this county. Jededlah L.
Buckingham of Thetford was COUNSEL
for the plaintiff and Elijah Paine OF
WilIiamstown and Mr.. Brown for the
defendant.
The lawyers whose names appear as
counsel i'm the several cases Tor TINS
term OF court are Daniel Farrlnd and
Benz. Porter of Newbury, Moulton
Morey of Fairlee. Nathaniel Niles OF
West Fairlee, Dudley Chase Of Ran
dolph, Daniel Buck OF Chelsea, Elijah
Paine and Roger Griswold OF WI
Jamestown, Demison Smith of Barre, j..
p. buckingham of ThetfOrd, Stephen
Jacob of Windsor, Cyrus Ware OF
! Montpelier and Brown, Marsh, Gallup,
and Dow, whose residences we cannot
give.
Cornelius Lyndc, the chief Judge Of
his court resided i'm Nilllam~tOWn
and was born iii Leicester, Mass, Au4.
20. l15l. He was the fourth CHIEF
4 Judge of Orange county court, his pred-
ece,Sors having been Jacob Bayley,
Israel smith and Jonathan Arnold
Antedating all Of these Col John Tap
i'm was CHIEF Judge Of the first courts
held in the territory, Afterwards called
Orange county when il WAS Gloucester
county. and before the Revolution.
Judge Lynde learned the clothier's
trade and after he was II fitted for col
lcge and entered Harvard, but did not
graduate rs his patriotism drove him
into the Revolutionary war, where he
became Il major in the continental
army. He removed TO Vermont in'l1sj.
and settled i'm the town of Williams
town. He was the first town clerk and
first postmaster in that own and was
its representative in the legislature for
five wears. He was a member of the
governors council and of the con-
stiutional convention of 1871 and
died in 1896, in his eighty-fourth year.
OF Beriah LOOMS, one Of the side
Judges. we can give no account at this
time.
Hon. Elisha Allis, the other side
Judge. was Il man o fnote in the state.
His home was in BroOkiicld. where his
descendant, still reside, men of stand
inc and influence in the county. He
came into the state in Feb. 1891 from
Williamsburg, Mass. He represented
Brookiield in the legislature in 1898,
'9juntil 80 and in 1878. seven years
in all. was a member Of the governors
council four years and Il delegate 10
the constitutional convention of 1893
and died April 3, 1885, aged eighty
seven.
The court was evidently one of ex-
perience in public affairs.
Daniel Farrand of Ncwbury. one of
the attorneys, was states attorney. lie
was one of the most able men that ever
lived in Orange county. and vet his
memory here is almost entirely oblit-
Grated. Judge Tan in his series of
articles on the supreme court of Yer
mont published in the Green Bag"
says of him that he was one of the
most accomplished of our early Judges.
He was born in Canaan, Conn, was
educated at Yale college, and soon
after his graduation came to Windsor
in this state and probably studied law
with his brother-in-law, stephen .Ja-
cob. He married. May /, 1894, Mary
Porter OF |llavcrhill. y. H.. Il sister of
the mother of Rufus Choate. lie re-
moved to Newbury after 17s6. where
he had a large practice. In the docket
of the December term of 1896 his name
appears for the plaintiff i'm fifty cases.
At another term he appears in eighty
iour cases. While he lived in New
bury he was registrar of probate.
Judge of probate, states attorney and
represented the town in 1892, '93,. 90
and 9s, serving as speaker of the
house in the latter year. He was also
n member of the convention of 1871,
which adopted the constitution of the
United States. From Newbury he re-
moved to Bellows Falls in 1900 and
thence TO Burlington in 1904. where he
resided until his death. In 1913 he
was II of the council of cenSors and
the same year was elected a Judge oil
the supreme court. In 1877 he de-
livered an address of welcome to Presi-
dent Monroe on the occasion OF his Wis
it to Burlington.
Nathaniel Niles of West Fairlee was
another remarkable man. He was
born in Rhode Island. He entered
Harvard but graduated at a New Jer-
sey college in l766 at the age of TWEEN
He studied law. medicine and
theology, and he was a man of versatile
talents, He came TO the part of Fair
lee now called West Fairlee in 1879.
He was elected a Judge ofthe supreme /
court in 1884 and had two subsequent
when the supreme court con-
sisted of five judges. In l7S7 he was
n of the three Judges of the
supreme court, as that court was then
constituted. Judge Niles was one of
the first two members of Congress
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