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  Redfield, Timothy P.
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NameTimothy P. Redfield
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Montpelier, Vermont , United States
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Born November 03, 1812
DiedMarch 27, 1888 (75 years)
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InfoTimothy Parker REDFIELD, fourth son of Dr. Peleg and Hannah (PARKER) REDFIELD, was born 11/3/1812 in Coventry [Orleans County], Vermont... After the usual academic preparation he matriculated at Dartmouth College, where he ranked first in his class upon his graduation in 1836. He was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Immediately after graduation Redfield commenced the study of law in the office of his brother, Hon. Isaac R. REDFIELD, and was admitted to the bar of Orleans County in 1838. Beginning the practice of his profession in Irasburg [Orleans County, Vermont], he continued it in that place up to the time of his removal to Montpelier in 1848.

He made his entry into public office as a member of the state legislature in 1839, and in 1848 he represented Orleans County in the legislature. Subsequently he was for several years a member of the state board of education.

From 1848 to 1870 he was numbered among the most active, able, and efficient lawyers in Vermont, and in 1870 was elected judge of the supreme court although he was a dedicated Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican state.

At the time of Senator MORRILL's first election to the national senate, Judge REDFIELD received sixteen votes in the legislature as the candidate of the Democrats. At MORRILL's second election Judge REDFIELD received eleven votes.

After Judge REDFIELD's elevation to the supreme bench of Vermont, he made numerous decisions which have passed into the category of legal standards. Among them was the noted case, "State ex rel. PAGE vs. SMITH et al," better known as the "Quo Warranto Case." In this suit he gave an elaborate and exhaustive decision, that now occupies ten pages of the Forty-eighth Vermont reports.

No opinion of Judge REDFIELD's ever acquired notoriety or redounded so much to his credit as the opinion of the court, written by him, in the case of James R. LANGDON et al, against the Vermont and Canada Railroad Company et al, in 1882. This suit was one branch of the famous Vermont Central Railroad litigation, which has been in the courts of the state for over twenty-five years. In the LANGDON case, among other principles involved, was the question whether a receiver's debt should take precedence of recorded antecedent mortgages as a lien upon the property, and if it did, whether such a lien could be enforced by strict foreclosure. The questions were novel, and many millions of dollars depended upon the result. The controversy was all the more embittered by reason of the different construction which was given by counsel to an opinion of the court delivered in 1877 upon the same subject.

The masterly way in which Judge REDFIELD explained the opinion of 1877, and the exact and precise method in which he demonstrated, both on principle and authority, that a receiver's debt did constitute a first lien upon the property managed, and that such lien could be enforced by strict foreclosure, won comments of universal admiration.

On 2/6/1840 Judge [Timothy Parker] REDFIELD married Miss Helen W. GRANNIS, of Stanstead, Province of Quebec. She was the daughter of William and Nancy Melinda (DUSTIN) GRANNIS, and her mother was a daughter of Moody DUSTIN.

Judge [Timothy Parker] REDFIELD died 27 March 1888 in Chicago [Cook County], Illinois.

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