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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Judge William Brockenbrough. (search)
ol 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 with the June term, 1826. It can never do any harm for a lawyer to use his pen in behalf of his profession outside of his own professional duties. Our modern Virginia bar has furnished some striking illustrations of this in Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and his son-in-law, Conway Robinson; Prof. John A. G. Davis, and his brother-in-law, John B. Minor, and the other distinguished Law Professors, John Tayloe Lomax and Henry St. George Tucker, and James M. Mathews, law writer and State Reporter, who is not only a worthy son of Essex, but of the efficient clerk, Wm. B. Matthews, of the court over which Judge Brockenbrough presided. There were still in Virginia district courts of chancery, besides the circuit courts. The connection between the two volumes of the reports o