Lawyer / legislator

Nathaniel Shipman

1828–1906 · United States

Federal judge.

Life and work

31 October 1883
Presided at the start of Feuardent v. Cesnola in the US Circuit Court, New York; the plaintiff claimed $25,000 (five counts of $5,000). The magazine's editorial says one count was thrown out when the court ruled that the Director's report to the Board of Trustees, in which the plaintiff's character was attacked, was a privileged communication and it was not shown that the defendant had it published in the newspapers.
New YorkThe Feuardent-Cesnola Trial 1883, p. 23 The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial (Editorial… 1883, p. 4a
1883–1884
Presided over the trial, which Marangou says lasted nine and a half weeks from the end of 1883 into early 1884, in his white and gold balconied courtroom in the old Post Office, New York. Marangou has him gavel for order when Bangs held a small stone dog towards Cesnola.
New YorkMarangou 2000, pp. 325
December 1883 – 1884
His charge to the jury, according to the Art Amateur, ignored the archaeological aspects of the case and confined itself to the questions of libel arising from Cesnola's angry rejoinder to the plaintiff's charge; the jury found for the defendant on two of three counts and disagreed on the third. Marangou gives the verdict as a complete vindication of Cesnola.
New YorkThe End of the… 1884, p. 96 Marangou 2000, p. 328

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