Show JUSTICE LURTON CALLED long and enviable judicial record ended by grim reaper atlantic city N J Asso associate clate justice horace harmon lurton ot of the united states supreme court died suddenly at a hotel sunday from heart failure super induced by car diac asthma he was 70 years old justice lurton had hod a long and edvi able judicial record in the state courts of tennessee and on the federal bench and was known and respected by leading jurists and lawyers layers and public men throughout the south and the middle west before his eleia elevation tion to the supreme court by president tatt taft born at newport campbell county ky justice lurton was as attending the county schools when the cli call 11 war ar began though only 17 years ears old be he enlisted in ih the confederate confederate army and became a trooper under the famous general morgan three ars yrs y ars later 1 he wa captured and imprisoned A personal appeal by his mother to tg president lincoln brought about his ills release on parole and when hen the u ar closed ho he was as studying law lava at cum berland university he graduated in f and began practicing law ana in tell tennessee |