THE EX-CHIEF JUSTICE, AND THE PRINTER; BEING A REPORT OF A TRIAL FOR LIBEL, TITUS HUTCHINSON VS. B.F. KENDALL; HAD BEFORE THE HONORABLE COUNTY COURT, FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDSOR, AND STATE OF VERMONT, MAY TERM, 1836; INCLUDING PLAINTIFF'S DECLARATION, PLEADINGS, TESTIMONY, ARGUMENTS, CHARGE, AND VERDICT!!! WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING MANY INTERESTING REMINISCENCES, MORCEAUS, AND INCIDENTS, WITH WHICH THE PUBLIC LIFE AND MEANDERING COURSE OF THE LATE "EVERLASTING CANDIDATE," ARE SO PROFUSELY VARIEGATED. . . BY THE DEFENDANT.
Woodstock, VT: J.B. & S.L. Chase, & Co., 1836. ix, [1 blank], [11]-72 pp, as issued. Disbound and foxed. Inscribed at head of title page, "T.H. Hall To Hon. W.C. Bradley." Good.
"Being a history of tergiversation in politics for twenty-five years, culminating in a bitter personal quarrel" [Gilman].
"Arising from a long feud between them, Hutchinson, a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and frequent anti-Masonic candidate for political office, sued Benjamin Kendall, publisher of the Vermont Courier, for libel. The jury awarded Hutchinson $3900 damages, but on a retrial a second jury awarded only $100. The defendant in this report of the case seeks public vindication" [Cohen].
Kendall calls himself "the humble conductor of a country news-print." His adversary, Hutchinson, is "an Ex-Chief Justice of a State Court." The case grew out of "very unusual and peculiar circumstances" and is, indeed, "a rare avis."
Hon. W[illiam] C[zar] Bradley [1782-1867], a Vermont lawyer and politician, was prosecuting attorney for Windham County 1804-1811; member of the State House of Representatives in 1806, 1807, 1819 & 1850; member of the Governor's council in 1812; Democratic Republican to the 13th Congress [1813-1815]; agent of the United States under the treaty of Ghent to fix the boundary line between Maine and Canada 1815-1820; Republican to the 18th and 19th Congresses; three time unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856; member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1857. [Online Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed November 2024.]
T[imothy] H[illiard] Hall [1803-1858], was County Deputy Sheriff for many years, County Sheriff from 1845-1846 and in 1848, member of the Board of Directors of the Windham County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Bellows Falls Savings Institution beginning in 1847 and one of the first members of its Board of Investment. [Simpson: HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM, VERMONT. . . Bellows Falls, Vt.: 1907. pp. 445; List of Vermont Sheriffs, accessed at Our Family Tree site, November 2024.]
Cohen 11986. AI 38357 [4]. Gilman 146. Item #40585
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