The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-11
NEW JUDGES NAMED.
JUDGE TORRANCE TO BE JUSTICE
 OFTHE SUPREME COURT.

The Resignation of Chief Justice An
 drews-IH Health the Cause-FouI
 New Judges AppOinted.
 Hartford, June Ex-Governor Me-
 Lean sent to the senate and house to- day the resignation of Chief Justice Charles B. Andrews of the supreme
 court to take place on October 1 next.
 Owing to the resignation of Chief
 Justice Andrews the governor had 1 four appointments to make, new
 chief justice, an associate and two su- perior court judges.
 The appointments were as follows:
 David Torrance of Derby to be chief justice of the supreme court of er- TOTS and judge of the superior court for the term of eight years from October 1. 1901.
 l Samuel O. Prentice of Hartford to be associate judge of the supreme court of errors and judge of the superior court for the term of eight years from | October 1, 1901.
 William S. Case of Hartford to be judge of the superior court for the telHi ui SlSilI yedTS IlOill oclopeT ], l 1901.
 Edwin M. Gager Of Derby to be | judge of the superior court for the term of eight years from July, 1901. Judge Prentice was appointed to fill the vacancy in the supreme court bench caused by the resignation of Justice Andrews and the promotion of Judge Torrance.
 Judge Case who fills the place left vacant by the promotion of Judge Prentice, is at present judge of the common pleas court of Hartford coun- ty. It is probable that Marcus H. Holcomb of Southlngton, will succeed Judge Case in the common pleas court.
 Edwin B. Gager of Derby is the law partner of State Attorney William H. Williams. The firm name is Williams & Gager and was formerly Wooster, Williams X Gager. Judge Gager has been for several years counsel for the trolley roads of Connecticut.
 In his letter to the governor, Judge Andrews gives i'll health as the cause of his removal
 Charles Bartlett Andrews was born in Sunderland, Mass, November 1, 1884, son of Rev. Erastus Andrews, a Bap- tist clergyman settled in that town. He was graduated at Amherst with honor in 1858 and has since received the hon orary degree of ILL. D. from that col lege and from Yale and Wesleyan. He studied law in Sherman, in this state, and was admitted to the bar in Bridge port in 1860. He went immediately to Kent to practice, but in 1863 John II. Hubbard of Litehfield, who had just been elected to congress, invited him to move to Litchfield and carry on his law business. The invitation was &C., cepted and before long MT. Andrews was at the head of the Litchfield coun ty bar. He was a member of the sen ate in 1868 and again in 1869. In 1878 he was elected to the, house from Litch field, the first republican member from there since the war. He was defeated in his campaign for speaker by. Judge Briscoe, but was easily the leader of the house and in the fall he was nomin ated for the governship.
 That was the year when the green back movement developed a considera- ble party. There was no election ly the people and and Judge Andrews was elected by the general assembly over his predecessor, Richard D. Hubbard. In 1882 Governor Hobart B. Bigelow | superior court and he served there un- til his promotion to the supreme bench | by Governor Bulkeley in 1890.