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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
pecialty of the actors enticed by the defendant; bespeaking the favor of the jury for his client, as the weaker party, and entreating them not to indulge in any prejudice against him because of his profession. The jury disagreed, and the entry, neither party, was made on the docket. Sumner's first appearance before the Supreme Judicial Court at law-terms was in 1837. He was junior counsel in the argument of two causes, one heard in March relating to a mortgage of personal property, Shurtleff v. Willard, 19 Pickering's Reports, p. 202. and the other, in June, being an action of tort for wrongfully putting a party's name on certain medicines. Thomson v. Winchester, 19 Pickering's Reports, p. 214. He was called into the former case by Richard Fletcher, and into the latter by Theophilus Parsons,—two friends who watched with interest his professional career. He prepared a brief for Mr. Fletcher in a case involving the question, whether an agreement to procure a certain location