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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 2 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
xt day. Franklin Dexter, one of the leaders of the bar, was the counsel on the other side. He filed a motion to set aside the verdict; but before the court passed upon it the case was settled by the parties. Sumner made a formidable brief of the law. Mr. Dexter, in filing one which only stated his points, wrote him that his junior would ornament it with authorities. Sumner had in December, 1843, argued the equity suit, which Judge Story decided adversely to him. Boston Advertiser, Dec. 23, 1843. The Judge, who was firmly opposed to his view of the case, and ruled against him on the most important points during the trial of the action at law, was vexed at his persistency. In this prolonged litigation, Sumner showed his power as a lawyer to better advantage than in any legal controversy in which he was ever engaged. It involved labor, research, the massing of testimony, the application of abstruse doctrines of law, and required pertinacity both in contending against the adver