Viewing Loren Warren Collins: "An Incomplete History of the Establishment of Courts in Minnesota." (1912)

Loren Warren Collins: "An Incomplete History of the Establishment of Courts in Minnesota." (1912)

The author of this paper was Loren Warren Collins, who served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1887 to 1904. He died before he could finish it. It was to be a longer, written version of a speech he gave in 1911 to the Hennepin County Bar Association on the history of the bench and bar in Minnesota. His son, Louis L. Collins, gave a draft of the paper containing his father's handwritten additions and corrections to the Minnesota Historical Society on January 9, 1913.

Of special interest are Collins's comments on the brief tenure of Chief Justice Henry Hayner, the forgotten Justice John Pettit, the causes of the establishment of the Court of Common Pleas in Ramsey County in 1867 and in Hennepin County in 1872, and the evolution of judicial districts in nineteenth century Minnesota.

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