Village of Evanston v. Gunn U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
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Village of Evanston v. Gunn
Transcript of Record / U.S. Supreme Court / 1878 / 164 / 99 U.S. 660 / 25 L.Ed. 306 / 9-25-1876
Village of Evanston v. Gunn
Brief for Defendant-In-Error / WIRT DEXTER / 1878 / 164 / 99 U.S. 660 / 25 L.Ed. 306 / 9-25-1876
Village of Evanston v. Gunn
Brief for Plaintiff-In-Error / GEORGE O IDE / 1878 / 164 / 99 U.S. 660 / 25 L.Ed. 306 / 9-25-1876
Hannibal & St J R Co v. Missouri River Packet Co U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
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Hannibal & St J R Co v. Missouri River Packet Co
Transcript of Record / U.S. Supreme Court / 1887 / 163 / 125 U.S. 260 / 8 S.Ct. 874 / 31 L.Ed. 731 / 10-29-1884
Hannibal & St J R Co v. Missouri River Packet Co
Brief for Plaintiff-In-Error / WIRT DEXTER / 1887 / 163 / 125 U.S. 260 / 8 S.Ct. 874 / 31 L.Ed. 731 / 1-9-1888
Herman Lieb Et Al., Appellants, vs. Henry P. Kidder and Daniel P. Stone, Appellees
(Full Title:Herman Lieb Et Al., Appellants, vs. Henry P. K...)
Full Title:Herman Lieb Et Al., Appellants, vs. Henry P. Kidder and Daniel P. Stone, Appellees
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1875
Harvard Law School Library
Chicago: Beach, Barnard & Co., Legal Printers, 98 Randolph Street. 1876.
Wirt Dexter was an American lawyer, general counsel and member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. He took intense interest in all movements for the advancement of the interests of Chicago.
Background
Wirt Dexter was born on October 25, 1832 at Dexter, Wisconsin, United States. He was a grandson of Samuel Dexter [1761-1816], and son of Samuel William Dexter and his third wife Millicent Bond. His father, a native of Boston, and a brother of Franklin Dexter, moved West, became became a county judge in Washtenaw county, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and subsequently practised law at Dexter, Michigan, a town which he had founded.
Education
Having obtained his early education in the local schools, Wirt went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he studied for a time, later attending Cazenovia Seminary in New York State.
Career
On his return to Michigan Dexter entered the lumber business, in which his father was largely interested. This involved the management of saw-mills, the marketing of the output, and the organization of logging camps, all the details of which he mastered.
The life, however, had no attractions for him, and in 1853 he moved to Chicago, read law, and was admitted to the bar.
Opening an office there, he soon obtained a good practise, particularly in commercial cases, his previous experience in business standing him in good stead. His successful defense of Devine, a foundryman, who had shot an employee during a quarrel, first attracted public attention to his abilities.
The case was one of more than ordinary local interest and his speech to the jury was remarkable for its force and effect. He did not specialize, and the wide range of cases in which he was briefed testified as much to his versatility as to his legal attainments.
In Pullman Palace Car Company vs. Smith, appearing on behalf of the company, he successfully established that the liability of his clients for property lost or stolen from passengers while riding in Pullman cars was neither that of an innkeeper nor a common carrier. His argument in Blatchford et al. vs. Newberry et al. , involving the construction of a will and the application of the doctrine of acceleration of remainders, was masterly, and, though unsuccessful, was concurred in by Judge Dickey, who contributed a dissenting opinion fifty-five pages in length. This case was unique in legal experience, owing to one of the appellate judges changing his opinion after the decision had been rendered. He was retained in [Northwestern] University vs. People on behalf of the University in the Supreme Court of the United States, where he obtained a reversal of the opinion of the Illinois court to the effect that the University was liable for taxes on land owned by it but not in its immediate use.
He took intense interest in all movements for the advancement of the interests of Chicago, and was one of the founders of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, being chairman of its executive committee in 1871 when the Chicago fire occurred, and to him was confided the work of administering the $3, 000, 000 contributed from all over the world for the purposes of relief. He at once gave up all professional work and for a year devoted himself solely to the task of evoking order out of chaos and distributing relief. In this work his services were invaluable and crowned with complete success.
For years prior to his death he was admittedly the leader of the bar in Chicago.
Dexter was not interested in political matters, and never held or aspired to public office. Normally a Republican, he declined to follow his party in its nomination of Blaine for the presidency, and in local contests invariably supported whomsoever he considered the better man, irrespective of politics.
Personality
Both in consultation and in court Dexter was distinguished for an intuitive common sense which dominated all his utterances. A fluent speaker, methodical, always thoroughly prepared, and impressive in his earnestness, he was extremely effective with a jury, and his legal acumen and power of analysis always carried great weight with the bench. He was tall, with an athletic frame, and an air of dignity and refinement, “genial and affable, luxurious in his habits and artistic in his tastes”.
Connections
Dexter was married twice: on June 15, 1858, Kate Augusta Dusenberry of Marshall, Michigan, who died in 1864, and on December 18, 1866, Josephine Moore.