The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-24

at 1 o'clock this afternoon, after few
 weeks illness of rheumatism and other
 complications
 John Case in 1869 was of the band o1
 sturdy pioneers who went from Wind
 sor and settled in Simsbury in that
 year. He was the first town constable
 and it's first representative in the gen
 eral assembly. Fifth in direct line
 of descent was Dr. Jairus Case, the fa-
 ther of William c. Case, and was for many years a practising physician In
 Granby. Dr. Case married Mary The resa Higby, daughter of Silas Higby, who for years was a member of the
 Hartford bar. Their younger son, Will Ham Cullen Case, was born in Granby, on February r. 1886.
 MT. Case was prepared for college at the Connecticut Literary institute of Suffield, and graduated from Yale in 1857. He was admitted to the bar at New Haven in 1860, after a course in study at the Yale law school and in the office of Rockwell & Colt of Pittsf1eld, Mass.
 Mr. Case began the active practice at
 dI III V lllc III tlS lOWllo Ol olllloOul He remained there until 1874, and was member of the legislature of 1873, to- gether with Samuel A. York, then clerk of the house. In 1874 MT. Cox opened an office in New Haven, with MT. York; and the firm of Case & York was con- tinued until MT. York became judge of p--bate a few years later. After the retirement of Judge York, MT. Case formed partnership with l.. P. Dem- ing, and in 1884 MT. Ely became a member The firm of Case & Ely later became the firm of Case, Ely 6 Case, which was later changed to Case, Ely & Webb, and is now Case & Ely. Since 1889, however, he had perhaps been more thoroughly identified with Hart ford, and with the firm of Case, Bryant & Case, of which he was senior mem- ber.
 For man who had by no means con- fined himself to that branch of the law, Mir. Cases criminal practice had been both extensive and singularly successful. It is probable that no other lawyer now at the Connecticut bar has engaged in the defense of so many capital cases, and these include the defense of Allen, for the killing of Shlpman at the states prison; of Con- art for the shooting of Mcclellan, and many others almost as prominent in the past twenty five years. Perhaps no case ever tried in Connecticut has aroused more general interest or called for greater legal ability than the dead lock contest over the governorship and other state offices in 1890. MT. Cases
 I.l Jo,. .f,,JJ ,,,4;. study of the case largely contributed to the final success of the republican party, which he represented together with the late Henry c. Robinson and Charles J. Cole. Concerning the argu- ment of MT. Case in this matter, one of the judges of the supreme court said afterward: "It was the greatest argu- ment I ever heard, and one of the greatest that anybody ever heard"
 MT. Case was repeatedly member of the general assembly, presiding as speaker during the session of 1881. But it was more as maker of officerholders that MT. Case acquired any fame. In the republican convention of 1884 he was largely instrumental in swinging the convention for Henry B. Harrison. At this convention was first heard the "Cheek pinned to his coat tails"
 MT. Case never sought public office, and several times refused to run for He was elected 8 delegate to the proposed constitutional conven- ton, however. from the town of Gran by, and had taken a house in Hartford for the winter. His wife, to whom he i was married in 1862, was Miss Marga- ! ret Turnbull, of Tariffville, and they had two children. William Scoville Case, now judge of the superior court, and l Theodore Grafton Case. John Case, a brother, graduated from Yale in 1855, and practised law in the west until he died, ten years ago. 1