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Michigan Judges George G Bates
He came to Detroit at an early day with his friend, Gen. Cass. On the right of Judge Sibley sat George Morrell, a native of Connecticut, but reared in New York He was as dignified and pure as Washington himself. Ross Wilkins, who sat on the left, resembled Lord Byron. He had a splendid, majestic head, an eye like Mars, full of brilliancy and as restless as the eagle's.
The case on call was Douseman vs. Duncan Stewart. There was some trouble about a contract to deliver cattle, and the case was to be tried before these three judges. The counsel in the case was William Woodbridge, as noble a man as ever lived in this or any other country. He was supported by a Mr. Fraser, a strange Scotchman, who came to Detroit about 1819. The counsel for Stewart was my friend, Henry S. Cole, who was supported by Gen. Charles Larned. That was the first case, and they were the first men I remember to have seen in that court of justice. They are all gone now.
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