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 The Supreme Court of West Virginia. endeavored to find an explanation in Gen eral Schenk's work on cards; failing in this I knew one final and last resort on a matter of this source and consulted the Honorable C. T. Caldwell, who is well recognized as an eminent authority by the profession in this State on a subject of this kind. On stating my dilemma to him he immediately entered into a lengthy discussion on the various terms used in cards, and ended by saying that in com mon parlance the word taylored in cards means skunk ed, or in other words, to be whitewashed. I make this explana tion that the term may be fully under stood. Judge .Hoffman left quite a fortune at his death, and under his -will devised the greater part of it to his near friends and relatives; and as evi dence of the friend ship and devotion of his earlier years he special legacies cure handsome which to rings proancl other jewelry THOMAS friends of his early >ears, and to purchase gold-headed canes Or some of the best friends of his later life. Thomas C. Green was the son of Judge John W. Green of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. He was born in Culpepper ^-oxinty, Virginia, November 5, 1820. The ather went on the Court of Appeals bench r11! 822. A number of the family were !avyers ancj became quite eminent in the Profession. Thomas resided with his father in Culpepper County until 1843, when he began
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practising law in Jefferson County, Vir ginia; while here he married a daughter of Col. Angus McDonald, a prominent Vir ginian. Since 1852 he continuously resided in Jef ferson County, except during the period of the war, until the time of his death. He became a successful lawyer in Hampshire and Jefferson counties prior to the war in 1 86 1. He was a private in the Southern army in the " Balti more Grays," and served two years in " Stonewall Jack son's Brigade." He was then appointed chief collector of the Confederate taxes for Virginia, and con tinued in this posi tion until the close of the war. During the war he was elect ed and served two terms in the Virginia Legislature. In 1876 he was elected to fill the pired lour years' term ofu Judge nexJames Paull, on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West C. GREEN Virginia, and in 1880 full term of twelve years, he and was died elected Decem for a ber 4, 1889, after having served on said court as one of its judges for fourteen years. His opinions are found in volumes 9 to 33, inclusive, of the West Virginia Reports. No judge on an)- bench probably ever gave to the questions submitted to him such com plete and exhausting research and considera tion. In fact, in many opinions he traced the law step by step; in its windings though they may have been, down to the date of the opin ion, considering and referring to the various