In this volume are described the great legal contests which have proven to be of the deepest significance in the history of our country. That the full historic value may be appreciated the scene is vitalized and peopled with the human beings who dominated it—the judges, the jury, the witnesses, the lawyers and the laymen. Among the eight “decisive battles” thus presented are the following: the United States vs. Callender: a fight for the freedom of the press; The commonwealth vs. Brown: the prelude to the civil war; and The impeachment of Andrew Johnson: a historic moot case.
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Hill, Frederick Trevor. Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.