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7 Case & Com. 1 (1900-1901)

handle is hein.journals/cscmt7 and id is 1 raw text is: Case and Comment NOTES OF RECENT IMPORTANT. INTERESTING DECISIONS INDEX TO ANNOTATION OF THE LAWYERS' REPORTS. ANNOTATED LEGAL NEWS NOTES AND FACETIJE VoL. 7 JUNE, 1900. No. 1 CASE AND COMMENT Monthly. Subscription. 50 cents perannum post- paid. Single numbers, 5 cents. Tile LAWYERiS' CO-OPERATIVE PUB. CO., Rochester. N. Y. NEW YoRK, CHICAGO, 79 Nassau St. 116 Monroe St. Entered at postollice at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class mail matter. Peter S. Grosseup. Peter Stenger Grosscup was born February 15, 1852, at Ashland, Ohio. His lineage on his father's side runs back to Holland; on his mother's to Germany; but all the ancestors have been in this country from before the Revolution. His great-grandfather, Paul Grosscup, was for many years a member of the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly, and, afterwards, of the Pennsylvania State Assem- bly, as, also, of the convention that in 1789, at Philadelphia, framed the first Constitution. The connections on the father's side also in- clude the Stengers, well known in Pennsylvania politics and at the bar. His mother's name was Bowermaster, whose grandfather held a commission in the Revolu- tionary War, and whose father was a soldier in the W¢ar of 1812. On this side, he is con- nected with the Studebakers, well known in the business world, as, also, with the Mohlers, some of whom are well known in railway circles. He was educated in the schools of Ashland, and in Wittenberg College, one of the educa- tional institutions of the Lutheran Church, graduating in 1872, at the head of his class. He obtained his degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Boston Law School. He practised law in Ashland, Ohio, from 1874 to 1883, being city solicitor for six years of that time. In 1876 he was a candidate of the Republican party for Congress, but was defeated. Coming to Chicago in 1883, he entered the law firm headed by Leonard Swett, a former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, and the best known lawyer, at that time, of the West. From this time he participated in some of the most important trials occurring in the West, and built up his reputatin as a lawyer. December 12, 1892, he was appointed to the United States District Bench by President Harrison. Soon after going upon the bench, he attracted the attention of the entirecountry in his decisions upon the application of the government to close up the World's Colum- bian Exposition on Sundays. He dissented from the two circuit judges on that occasion. On an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, presided over by Chief Justice Fuller, this dis- sent was sustained. His most widely known service, however, was in connection with the Debs riots in 1894. In connection with Circuit Judge Wil- liam A. Woods, he issued the injunction in favor of the government and against the rioters on that occasion. When this injinc- tion was spurned by the rioters, he called upon the President for the Federal troops,-a call that unquestionably saved the city fr,,m mo) violence. Summoning the grand jury at the earliest day possible by law, lie deliv(red to them, on their assembling in the midst of the riots, a charge that gave hine an instant national reputation. This indictment, and ar- rests that followed, were the beginning of the end of mob violence. In January, 1899, on the death of Judge

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