January 1886: The Chancery Court in Newark sat in four courtrooms spread among three buildings on Broad Street: Chancellor Theodore Runyon and Vice-Chancellor Abraham Van Fleet at No. 828, Vice-Chancellor John Bird at No. 757 and an advisory master at No. 800. “It is very inconvenient to have these rooms in separate buildings and far apart,” the Law Journal editors said. “The chancellor often has to hurry from one to another and back again, and counsel miss their appointments from not knowing in which of the several chambers their cases are to be heard.”
100 Years Ago
January 1911: Charging a Camden County grand jury investigating ballot fraud, Justice Grant Garrison said: “The killing of the president of the United States is more theatrical but is not so serious a crime against the government as the casting of a fraudulent ballot, since the individual service to the government can be replaced, but the corruption of the ballot strikes at the very foundation of the government.” Unfortunately, the Law Journal editors noted, “Camden grand juries … have not a statewide reputation for dealing fearlessly with all serious complaints.”
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