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47 Law Libr. J. 138 (1954)
John Norton Pomeroy, 1828-1885: A Biographical Sketch

handle is hein.journals/llj47 and id is 146 raw text is: John Norton Pomeroy, 1828-1885 A Biographical Sketch by JOHN C. LEARY, Librarian, Stanford University Law Library Two of the old and important American law schools make claim on John Norton Pomeroy. Without wish- ing to arbitrate this interesting tug- of-war between New York University School of Law and the Hastings Col- lege of Law of the University of Cali- fornia, there is abundant evidence of the pride of association which each institution steadily maintains in this energetic teacher and prolific writer. The New York University Bulletin, School of Law states: In 1864 John Norton Pomeroy became Dean and was assisted by Judge Clerke and Benjamin Vaughan Abbott. Dean Pomeroy's work and influence on American jurisprudence was already marked, and his name continues even to this day as leader in the field of equity.' The Hastings Announce- ment is: In the early years of the college, John Norton Pomeroy, while occupying the chair of Professor of Municipal Law, wrote his famous treatise on Equity Jurisprudence.2 At the Field Centenary Dinner, Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court spoke 1. 52 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BULLETIN, No. 16, p. 24 (1952). 2. Announcement of the University of California -Hastings College of Law, 76th ANNUAL ANNOUNCE- BlENT, p. 7 (1953). highly of Pomeroy, his predecessor in the Dean's office at New York Univer- sity,3 and a modem Equity -writer, William F. Walsh, also a faculty mem- ber of that school, dedicated his Cases on Equity to Pomeroy and included his picture.4 Not to be outdone, Ed- ward A. Hogan, Vice-Dean of Hast- ings, in an article on The First Seventy-Five Years gives a warm ap- predation of Pomeroy in Hastings' early history,5 and those who have been law librarians longer than the writer may recall the address of wel- come of Maurice E. Harrison, a for- mer Dean of Hastings, and the re- sponse of our own Arthur E. Beardsley at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Conven- tion of the American Association of Law Libraries in San Francisco in 1939, when both speakers thought it most appropriate to mention Pome- roy.6 But, in addition to the testimony of these two law schools, one, and possi- bly two, of Pomeroy's books have achieved that plane where they may be properly called American legal 3. Reppy, DAVID DUDLEY FIELD CENTENARY ESSAYS, p. 312 (1949). 4. Walsh, CASES ON EQUITY, frontispiece (1937). 5. 58 CALIFORNIA 2AONTnLY, No. 9, p. 10-12 (1953). 6. 32 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 208, 211 (1939).

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