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Y. Matter of New York & Long Island Bridge Co., 148 N. Y. Havana Central Railroad v. Knicker- bocker Trust Co., 198 N. Y. Knickerbocker Trust Co. v. Evans, 188 Fed. Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. R. Co., 240 U. S. Upon the failure of the firm of Grant & Ward, in 1884, of which ex-President Grant was one of the chief victims, he was appointed Receiver of its assets, a position which he held, and a trust which he discharged with signal credit. It will be seen from this brief reference to his profe...ssional life that Mr. Davies was a general practitioner, in the old and honored sense of the term. His identi- fication with the vast number of suits involving claims against the Manhattan Railway Company for damages by owners of property abutting on the streets occu- 11 JULIEN T. DAVIES pied by the elevated structures should, however, be specially referred to. To carry on this exacting litigation he created a special law department, of which he was the active head; and as an illus- tration of the volume of the work, it should be added that for a long period the calendar of our Supreme Court of original jurisdiction was congested with these cases, and more than two thousand of them were tried at Special and Trial Terms, and nearly one thousand Appeals were argued.
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