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Docket number 34 is the Williston Club (Davis, W. S. Brown) versus the Taney Club (Beane, Hubbard). Meeting at 52 Walter Hastings Hall with W. D. Gaillard 3L as chief justice...
...United States Supreme Court, a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1861, is now the oldest man who has ever sat on the bench of this highest tribunal of the nation. At eighty-seven years of age he passes the record of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, his ability to see the whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist; the law has always been a tool...
ROGER BROOK TANEY was Attorney General, and not William M. Evarts or Harry M. Dougherty or Harlan F. Stone...
...portrait was painted in 1859 by Emmanuel Lentze, who came to America in the early part of the last century to make decorations for the capitol at Washington. Lentze was also commissioned to paint the portrait for Justice Taney's daughter, a Mrs. J. M. Campbell, the wife of a noted lawyer of Baltimore. Lentze is probably best remembered by his painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware", which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The painting of Judge Taney, which is three-quarter length and life size, was done when the Judge was in his eighty-third...
...portrait of Chief Justice Taney will be hung, at least temporarily, in the South Room of Langdell Hall between the portraits of Chief Justice Jay and Chief Justice White...