. History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884. FIRST DECADE. 1830-1840 237 It was daring the presidency of Judge Irving in the Court of Com-mon Pleas that New York presented a remarkable array of brilliantlawyers. In that court might have been seen Thomas Addis Emmet,*Peter A. Jay,f Peter W. Radcliffe, Samuel M. Hopkins. John Anthon,JMartin IS. Wilkins, Elisha W. King, David B. Ogden, William Samson,William Slosson, Pierre C. Van Wyck, John T. Mulligan, RobertBogardus, Thomas Phoenix, Joseph D. Fay,
. History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884. FIRST DECADE. 1830-1840 237 It was daring the presidency of Judge Irving in the Court of Com-mon Pleas that New York presented a remarkable array of brilliantlawyers. In that court might have been seen Thomas Addis Emmet,*Peter A. Jay,f Peter W. Radcliffe, Samuel M. Hopkins. John Anthon,JMartin IS. Wilkins, Elisha W. King, David B. Ogden, William Samson,William Slosson, Pierre C. Van Wyck, John T. Mulligan, RobertBogardus, Thomas Phoenix, Joseph D. Fay, David Graham, Sen., HughMaxwell, John Leveridge, Ogden Hoffman (then rapidly rising in theprofession), and others. There was a Court of Sessions, a Court of Oyer and Terminer, aMarine Court, and ward district courts. The Court of Sessions was atribunal for determining in all cases of felony and of offences committedwithin the city, and had power to appoint special sessions of the peacefor the same purposes. The judges of the Court of Sessions consistedof the recorder and two aldermen ; that of the Court of Oyer andTerminer consisted of
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