Show NEW YORKS RECORD BROKEN justice whites accession leaves hep without washington feb 20 Justice white the new member of the united states supreme court will be sworn in march ath that being the first day of the spring term he will at once be called upon to take part in consideration of more important litigation than has greeted a new justice in many years for many weeks the court has been anxiously awaiting a full bench and in the meantime important cases have been fixed for hearing at such time as the new justice should take his place on the bench these cases were finally set for march ath in the hope the nomination and confirmation might be made by that time the records of the supreme court show that the accession of judge white leaves new york state without a representative in the court for the first time since 1800 the only exception cince the court wag established the exact succession from new york is as follows john jav chief justice 1789 1791 Drock holst livingstone ing stone 1116 1823 smith thompson 1823 samuel 15 1872 ward hunt 1872 1832 samuel blatch fork 1882 1893 the luit ices and officials offic ils of the supreme court are especially gratified at the choice of justice white he has been much among them and there has been hopes expressed as far back as the rejection of that tho louisiana senator might be chosen this was due mainly to the fact that the court has lacked an authority on civil law embraced in the justinian code and the latter napoleonic code all the states of the union except louixiana Louii iana found their laws on the endlish common law but louisiana founded her system on the napoleonic code which came from the aloman civil law when the late justice bradley was on the bench he made a study laws and spent much time in louisiana for this purpose he became authority in the court on such questions but since bis death all the justices have been common law lawyer justice white now comes equipped with experience at the bar and on the bench of louisiana under their civil code |