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Photographs personal residences of lawyers and judges in Minnesota.
Photographs of Historic Federal Courthouses in Minnesota.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota - Part One.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota: Part Two.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota: Part Three.
Photographs of the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse. (1932).

























































































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Henry F. Masterson (1825-1882).

On the morning of Tuesday, April 4, 1882, the chairman of the Ramsey County Bar Association appeared before the Minnesota Supreme Court and offered resolutions adopted by the Association honoring the late Henry F. Masterson. They were accepted and ordered entered into the minutes of the Court by th...

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David J. Meyers: Book Review of Donald R. Durbin Jr., "The Bigger They Are...." (2000).

Sometimes the best advice that a good lawyer can give the client is that the client has no case. This is as true today as it was over 100 years ago when William Burfening first came to a lawyer about a real estate claim.

Burfening could have used a good lawyer. His life might have b...

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Pierce Butler, "Federal Valuation of Railroads" (1919).

Three years before he was nominated by President Harding to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, St. Paul lawyer Pierce Butler addressed a joint convention of the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Bar Associations on "Federal Valuation of Railroads." It is posted here. ...

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Emory R. Johnson, American Railway Transportation (2d ed. 1915).

Emery R. Johnson (1864-1950) was Professor of Transportation and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania for many years. He also served as Dean of the Wharton School, 1919-1933. In 1903 he published American Railway Transportation. The second, revised edition published in 1915 is posted here. ...

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James J. Hill: "The Railroad: Legislative Regulation and Its Limits." (1910).

In 1910, James J. Hill, the builder of a transcontinental railroad, published a collection of articles on aspects of American life titled "Highways of Progress." In one chapter, he expressed strong views on state and federal regulation of the nation's railways----he despised state regulators, prefe...

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