Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . noadvantages of education nor the benefit of legal training, he possessed an un-surpassed practical business capacity. To an intuitive knowledge of themotives and characters of men he united a sagacity that penetrated clearly theforensic myths of the bar, enabling him to sift conflicting evidence and presentevery case in a plain, intelligible manner to the jury. His charges to juries areremembered as models of directness, brevity, and perspicuity. In conse-quence of his extensive business interests it is said that his
Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . noadvantages of education nor the benefit of legal training, he possessed an un-surpassed practical business capacity. To an intuitive knowledge of themotives and characters of men he united a sagacity that penetrated clearly theforensic myths of the bar, enabling him to sift conflicting evidence and presentevery case in a plain, intelligible manner to the jury. His charges to juries areremembered as models of directness, brevity, and perspicuity. In conse-quence of his extensive business interests it is said that his own matters some-times became complicated with those of litigants who came into the CommonPleas to settle their controversies. It is related that on one occasion an ac-tion of replevin for a lot of logs was being tried in his court and both partiesgave evidence tending to establish their respective claims of title to the prop-erty. Judge Chamberlains charge was substantially as follows: Gentle-men of the jury: The plaintiff has given a good deal of evidence to show that.
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