[1478] Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, 127.
[1479] Justices Chase and Cushing were absent because of illness.
[1480] Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 546-47.
[1481] Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 115.
On this occasion Martin was so drunk that the court adjourned to prevent him from completing his argument. (See Md. Hist. Soc. Fund-Pub. No. 24, 35.) This was the first time that drink seems to have affected him in the discharge of his professional duties. (See supra, footnote to 185-86.)
[1482] 6 Cranch, 123.
[1483] 6 Cranch, 128-29.
[1484] 6 Cranch, 130-31.
[1485] Ib. 132-33.
[1486] See vol. i, 202, of this work.