New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . been engaged in more celohrated cases in various States ofthe Union than, perhaps, any other living lawyer. A fewof those cases were the Friedman will case. New York,1874; the Eonden will case, New York, 1876; Common-wealth V. Buford, Kentucky, 1879 ; the Leslie will case,1880 -; Rhinelander lunacy case. New York, 1884 ; Com-monwealth V. Riddle, Pittsburg, 1885 ; the Helmboldinsanity case, Philadelphia and elsewhere; John Andersonwill case. New York, 1887 ; Atlas Steamship case. NewYork, 1887 ; Coffin lunacy case, New York,
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . been engaged in more celohrated cases in various States ofthe Union than, perhaps, any other living lawyer. A fewof those cases were the Friedman will case. New York,1874; the Eonden will case, New York, 1876; Common-wealth V. Buford, Kentucky, 1879 ; the Leslie will case,1880 -; Rhinelander lunacy case. New York, 1884 ; Com-monwealth V. Riddle, Pittsburg, 1885 ; the Helmboldinsanity case, Philadelphia and elsewhere; John Andersonwill case. New York, 1887 ; Atlas Steamship case. NewYork, 1887 ; Coffin lunacy case, New York, 1888, and theLane will case. New York, 1890, and last, but not least, thememorable Hayes forgery case in February of the year1893. He ap])eared in forty-six murder cases, and except-ing Charles McFIvaine, convicted of the murder of ClrocerLuca in Hrooklyn, not one of his clients ever sufferedcapital punishment. Although defeated in the famous casein which the children of Frank Leslie, the publisher, con-tested their fathers will made in favor of Mrs. Frank Leslie,. Gi:()K(;i: .m. ci ktis. the litterateur, now |)ublisher of the well-known magazine,on the ground of insanity. Judge Curtis won imjjerishablelaurels l)y his style of argument and wonderful a stiil more famous case was that of the Commonwealthof Kentucky against Huford for the murder of Chief JusticeI-lliott, of the Court of .\ppeais, right in the Temjjle of[ustice, as Judge Curtis ex])ressed it. Huford was a bril-liant man of high social standing and Judge Curtis pleadedinsanity in his case. Buford was sent to a lunatic asylum,where he died of paresis, thus justifying the argument ofhis counsel. The case, which was the most celebratedever tried in Kentucky, created a profound sensationthroughout the country, and the escape from the gallowsof Huford so added to Judge Curtis fame that a racehorse was named after him, as in the instance of ProctorKnott. With (irover Cleveland, Francis Lynde Stetson,(Charle
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