Show JUSTICE LURTON CALLED long and enviable judicial record ended by grim reaper city N J Asso associate clite jus jug tice horace harmon lurton of the united states supreme court died suddenly ud denly at a hotel sunday from walt failure super induced by car diac asthma lie was 70 year years old justice lurton had a long and enviable judicial record in the state courts ot of tennessee and on the federal bench and was known and respected by leading jurists and lawyers and public men throughout the south and the middle west before his elevation to the supreme court by president tatt TAIL born at t newport campbell county ky bastice lurton was attending the county schools when the civil war began b though only 17 years old h vall eted in the confederate erato army and became a trooper under the famous general morgan three years lar be he ae as captured and imprisoned president A personal appeal by bis his mother to Preil dent lincoln brought about his release on parole and when the nar var closed he was studying luw jew at cum beriland university he ite graduated in 1887 1967 and began begin practicing law la in ten nesse |