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members, some of whom would have honored and graced the bench of our Supreme Court, to which they were, like Brockenbrough, sometimes elevated. The senior judge present at any session presided. I once knew nearly, if not quite, all of its members. The accomplished James Lyons honored me with invitations to the elegant dinners which he used to give them. I was in their court-room the afternoon when the eminent Benjamin Watkins Leigh obtained from them the bailing of the unfortunate young Simms, who so unnecessarily shot and killed Prof. John A. G. Davis, chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia. I have always thought that the manner of that great advocate towards the court on that occasion was rather imperious. The court occupied that room in the Capitol whose floor gave way with such tragic consequences on the 28th of April, 1870. It was the decisions of the court above referred to which Judge Brockenbrough reported, commencing with the June term, 1815, and ending