Edwards Woodruff, complainant vs. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co., et al., defendants. [1884?]

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Edwards Woodruff, complainant vs. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co., et al., defendants. [1884?]

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Transcript of a landmark trial that led to the curtailing of hydraulic mining activity in California. George Cadwalader and I.S. Belcher were acting for the complainant and Stewart and Herrin, J.K. Byrne and W.C. Belcher represented the defendants. Testifying for the complainant were William Hammond Hall, William S. Hunter, John Bidwell and Waldo Teegarden. James Welch Laymance, Charles William Hendel, W.C. Stokes and Hamilton Smith testified for the defendants. Lorenzo Sawyer was the presiding judge and he requested the assistance of Matthew P. Deady, U.S. District Judge of Oregon, in order "to prevent insular character in the decision". The suit was initiated on July 29, 1882 and the opinion from the justices was filed on Jan. 7, 1884.

21 p. ; 28 cm.

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Belcher, Isaac S., 1825-1898

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Deady, Matthew P. (Matthew Paul), 1824-1893

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Matthew Paul Deady, son of Daniel and Mary Ann (McSweeny) Deady, was born near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland on May 12, 1824. The Deady family worked a farm first in Maryland and, after 1828, in Wheeling, Virginia. Deady received his early education from his father and later at Wheeling's Lancasterian Academy. In 1837, three years after Mary Ann Deady's death, the family moved to Ohio. From 1841 to 1845 Deady was apprenticed to a blacksmith and, at the same time, attended Barnes...

BYRNE, JASON K.

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Sawyer, Lorenzo, 1820-1891

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Belcher, William C., 1821-1895

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Cadwalader, George, 1806-1879

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Cadwalader was born and raised in Philadelphia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served in the Pennsylvania state militia and suppressed anti-foreign riots in Philadelphia. His father was Thomas Cadwalader, not to be confused with his cousin Thomas McCall Cadwalader (1795–1873), who was a general from New Jersey. His mother was Mary Biddle, who was the daughter of Clement Biddle, (1740–1818) who served in the American Revolutionary War. He married Frances Butler Mease in 1830...

Woodruff, Edwards

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North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company

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