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While practising at the bar and attorney near Natchez, Mississippi, and was gradu ated at Yale College, where Justices Brewer for an Insurance Company, he wrote a book and Brown of the United States Supreme upon that subject, largely for the information Court and Hon. Chauncey Depew were his of local counsel for the company. He was a trustee for the old University of Chicago, classmates. He was graduated and was vale dictorian of his class at the Law School in and is now trustee of the new University of New Orleans. H* practised some time at that name, supported by the magnificent gift Memphis, Tennessee, and came to Chicago of John D. Rockefeller and the citizens of about 1861, where he became a Master in Chicago. Judge Bailey gives some instruc Chancery, which position he held till he was tion each year in the Chicago College of He has received the degree of elected to the Supreme Court. Judge Ma- Law. gruder has rendered some opinions which LL D. from the University of Chicago and Besides have attracted wide attention. He wrote from the Rochester University. the opinion in Spies et al. v. The People. these duties in the line of his profession, he This is one of the celebrated causes of this has been a man of affairs and commercial enterprise. court. It is popularly known as the An The first official reporter of this court was archist Case, and occupies two hundred and Sidney Breese. He has been succeeded by sixty-six pages of the report. Jacob W. Wilkin, of Danville, Illinois, a Jonathan Young Scammon, Charles Gilman, Presidential Elector in 1872, Circuit Judge Ebenezer Peck, and Norman L. Freeman. Hon. Norman L. Freeman, when appointed from June, 1879, till June, 1888, sitting a por tion of that time as Judge of the Appellate at the April term, 1863, was a prominent and able practising lawyer. He compiled Court, and mentioned by the press as a Sen an early Illinois digest, and was the author atorial possibility at the writing of this arti cle, was elected a judge of this court in June, of a work on Pleading and Practice in Illi nois. His reporting begins with 31 Illinois, 1888. Simeon P. Shope, of Lewistown, Illinois, a and he at the writing of this article has is member of the Lower House of the Illinois sued the last advanced sheet of 133 Illinois Legislature in 1862 and 1864, and a Circuit Reports. In a preface to 47 Illinois, Mr. Freeman Judge about two years, has been a member of this court since June 1, 1885. He has in 1870 called the atttention of the profes written the opinion of the court in several sion to the evil of the indiscriminate multi important real-estate cases, and has been plication of reports of decisions, and advised that the court be given power to determine Chief-Justice one year. what opinions should be reported, in order Judge Bailey, elected Judge of the Su preme Court June 4, 1888, was born at Mid- that the number of volumes might be de dlebury, Vermont, June 22, 1833; was creased and their value to the profession graduated at the University of Rochester, enhanced. Mr. Freeman stated that the New York, in 1854; began practice at Free- number of cases reported in the Illinois Su port, Illinois, in 1856; was twice a member of preme Court in 1839 was seventy, and in the Lower House of the Illinois Legislature, 1854 one hundred and fifty. The number reported in the year, Jan. 21, 1889, to Jan. a Presidential Elector in 1872, Judge of Cir cuit Court from August, 1877, to June, 1888, 21, 1890, is two hundred and ninety-five. sitting by selection of the Supreme Court This last number would be much larger but as Judge of the Appellate Court at Chicago for the Appellate Court, established in 1877, during that time. His opinions in the Ap where many cases in which opinions are pellate Court Reports have been quite widely written stop, which otherwise would appear cited. in the Supreme Court.