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knowledge of the writer that his bearing in a hearing at chambers impressed several gentlemen of high position from another State with singular admiration. Few of our judges have given more general satisfaction than he. He was strict in the execution of his duties, and he expected like fidelity from all others. Though he undoubtedly made pretty broad distinctions in his private estimates of men, he treated them all with strict fairness in his official dealings. When a new point was presented to him, his habit was to hear attentively the discussion of counsel upon it before making his decision, and his power of nice discrimination and of sound judgment usually enabled him to decide it aright. It was rare that verdicts found in his court were disturbed for faulty rulings or instructions of the judge.
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