History of Madison County

The Bench

It will not be inappropriate to recall the names of the Judges of of the court who sat in the "old temples" and the new, and dispensed justice with impartial hand. Material changes have been made since the first court was opened in Madison County, both in the organization of the court and in the general practice of attorneys; but as the different changes in the State judiciary has been given in the previous chapter, we will here confine ourselves to a record of the Presiding Judges under the old constitution and those who have sat upon the "Woolsack" in London, since the adoption of the new. the new.

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