Crunode party candidate at the height of the American Civil War, Currey was elected to the Supreme Court of California, taking his seat in January 1864. His term ended January 1, 1868. After serving as associate justice, Currey became Chief Justice on January 1, 1866, when Silas Sanderson resigned, on the rule that the member of the court with the shortest remaining term serves. (He was defeated in his re-election bid, for the newly established ten-year term, by associate justice Augustus Rhodes and was therefore succeeded as Chief Justice by Lorenzo Sawyer). Having served four years on the court	John Currey
10712312	, including two as chief justice, Currey lost the 1867 election to Royal Sprague and retired to his home in San Francisco. When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire left him homeless he moved to his estate north of Dixon in Solano County, in the Sacramento Valley. With his sons, Montgomery Scott Currey and Robert Spencer Currey, there he lived out his last years. Personal life. In 1845, Currey married Cornelia Elizabeth Scott, who died April 20, 1877. John Currey John Moore Currey (October 4, 1814 – December 18, 1912) was the eighth Chief Justice of California, and candidate for Governor 	John Currey
10712313	Crunode Crunode In mathematics, a crunode (archaic) or node is a point where a curve intersects itself so that both branches of the curve have distinct tangent lines at the point of intersection. A crunode is also known as an ordinary double point". For a plane curve, defined as the locus of points "f"("x", "y") = 0, where "f"("x", "y") is a smooth function of variables "x" and "y" ranging over the real numbers, a crunode of the curve is a singularity of the function "f", where both partial derivatives formula_1 and formula_2 vanish. Further the Hessian matrix of second derivatives  will have both positive and negative eigenvalues. Crunode In mathematics, a crunode (archaic) or node is a point where a curve intersects itself so that both branches of the curve have distinct tangent lines at the point of intersection. A crunode is also known as an "ordinary double point". For a plane curve, defined as the locus of points "f"("x", "y") = 0, where "f"("x", "y") is a smooth function of variables "x" and "y" ranging over the real numbers, a crunode of the curve is a singularity of the function "f", where both partial derivatives formula_1 and formula_2 vanish