Letters, 1842, 1850-1853.

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Letters, 1842, 1850-1853.

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Letters written by Butterfield, a Racine, Wisconsin, lawyer, to his family while he was attending the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in 1852 and 1853; describing the Capitol and court procedures and commenting on cases.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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The basic powers and framework of Wisconsin's court system is laid out in Article VII of the state constitution. Judicial power was vested in a Supreme Court, circuit courts, courts of probate, and justices of the peace. According to the 1848 constitution, the state was divided into 5 judicial circuit districts and the five judges presiding over these circuits were to meet at least once a year at Madison as a Supreme Court until the legislature could establish the Supreme Court as a...