The sun., 1910-01-29
JUSTIcE PArrERSON. DEAD.
Had Served From 1sDS to 1910 on the
Appellate DfVision.

Edward Patterson, former Presiding jus
tice OF the Appellate Division OF the Su-
preme Court for the first department. died
yesterday afternoon at his home. ia
East Thirty-ninth street, after an illness
of three weeks. He succumbed to q
complication of diseases and general
breakdown due to his advanced age and
close application to his public duties. -
Justice Edward Patterson had served
twenty three years on the Supreme
Court bench when he retired on January
last, and since 1895 his service. under
designation Of the Governor of the State,
was in the Appellate Division.
Justice Patterson was born in New York
in 1889. He was a descendant Of the
Pennsylvania Pattersons and his early
education was received in Philadelphia.
He began his law studies in this city in
the Office of the late Judge Cowles and
was admitted to the bar in 1850.
kfter being admitted to the bar Justice
Patterson struck out for humself and
soon built up a profitable practice. He
was frequently appointed as referee In
important cases and in these showed that
he possessed fine judicial qualities. In
the RhineAnder lunacy case he took the
ground against his two<associates that
the evidence did not establish the insanity
of Rhinelander and his dissenting opinion
was sustained by Recorder Smyth, In
whom the appellate power from the ao-
tioniof the commission was vested.
In 1884 he was beaten by a small
margin for Judge Of the Court Of
Common Pleas while running on the
County Democracy ticket. but in 1897
he was elected TO the Supreme Court
bench Of the State. His first term ended
in 1900, and at that time 1t was said that
Richard Croker. then leader of Tam
many Hall. was opposed to his renomina-
ton. Justice Patterson was 80 popular
with his fellow members of the Supreme
Court bench, however. that Mr.. Croker
was constrained to reconsider his determi-
nation and ne succeeded himself. His
term, had he not retired on the first of this
year. would have ended in 1914.
some of the important cases In which
Justice Patterson rendered decisions were
the complicated Caswell- Hazard case;
the action Of Eugene Kelly against Jay
Gould and others: the case of Manville
against Lawton, involving questions Of
| importance in stock transactions. and the
appeal in the action for damages by T.
Thomas Fortune against James Trainor,
in which the liability Of an employer for
an assault committed by his servant was
enforced
Justice Patterson was honored with the
degree Of LII. ID. by Williams, Hobart
and Columbia. He was a member Of the
Law Institute, the Bar Association, OF
which he was once president; the Ameri-
can Museum Of Natural History, the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, and
Of the Manhattan, Metropolitan. Demo
cratic, Players, New York Yacht and Gen.
tury clubs.
Justice Patterson married Isabel Lid
don Cox. He is survived by five children,
Edward l.. Patterson. a lawyer; DIR. Henry
8. Patterson Mrs. Mary N. Hale of Bos-
ton, Mrs. Eleanor S. Childs and Arthur c.
Patterson. Mrs. Patterson died in 1907
Justice Patterson was a member of the
Church of the Heavenly Rest and the
funeral services will be held there.