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The Supreme Court of Wisconsin. region rapidly developing, and great famil iarity with the litigation arising out of lum bering business conducted on a large scale by corporations. While carrying on a large practice, he was for six years the county judge of Chippewa county, and in 1888 was elected circuit judge of the eleventh circuit, then comprising six large, growing counties in the Chippewa valley and northwestern

portion of the State. The business of this circuit was large, in volving important litigation. It was greatly increased by the sudden growth of the city of Supe rior and the extension of numerous railroads into the northern portion of the State, resulting in increase of population and manufacturing inter ests. Judge Marshall performed this labo rious duty with such ability, and such en ergy withal, as to in dicate to the profes sion, and the public as well, that the State ALFRED W. needed his services in the larger judicial field. He was re-elected to the circuit with out opposition in 1894. Upon the death of Chief-Justice Orton, in 1895, Judge Marshall was appointed by Governor Upham to the resulting vacancy as associate justice, after nearly seven years' service in the circuit. He entered upon the duties of this place at the September term, 1895. He was elected by the people, without opposition, in April, 1896, to fill the unexpired term. In the recent April election he was re-elected for the full ten-year term by a unanimous vote, a testimonial of confidence which he has

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fairly earned. Young, strong, with a capacity for work such as few men possess, a long career of usefulness may well be predicted of this jurist, now junior on the bench. "THE GERRYMANDER CASES." While the court was constituted of the Judges Lyon, Orton, Cassoday, Winslow and Pinney, the important litigation known as the " gerrymander cases " was had. Wis consin had unhappily fallen into the bad political custom of so forming congression al, senatorial and as sembly districts as to give the largest ad vantage to the party at the time dominant in the legislature. This had been so long practiced that the usage was hardly questioned. In the forming of assembly districts, the constitu tion al requirements that they should be "bounded by county, precinct, town or ward lines, to con NEWMAN. sist of contiguous ter ritory, and be in com pact form as practicable," were ignored in part, and counties were dismembered, un shapely districts made, with gross inequali ties in population, though the Constitution also requires that they be made " according to the number of inhabitants." When the Democrats came into power in 1891, after a long exclusion, they resolved to execute the villainy taught them, and that it should go hard but they would " better the instruction." They passed an appor tionment act which was a palpable gerry mander. A suit was brought upon the