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William N. H. (William Nathan Harrell) Smith

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  1. Orange Superior Court refuses to send the suit against the North Carolina Railroad lease to federal court At the fall term of Orange Superior Court, Judge Kerr heard arguments in Caldwell's suit against the Richmond and Danville and North Carolina railroad companies over the lease of the North Carolina Railroad and the change of gauge. He refused the Richmond and Danville's motion to move the case to federal court and continued it to the next term. People: William A. Graham, William N. H. (William Nathan Harrell) Smith, Samuel A. Ashe Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: John Kerr · Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 11, 1874, p. 3

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Hon. W.N.H. Smith, chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina

1889 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina

An anonymous notice of William Nathan Harrell Smith, chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who died in 1889, the year the piece appeared. It was detached from the North Carolina University Magazine and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina, among their biographies of state judges.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Smith, William N. H. (William Nathan Harrell), 1812-1889.

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