Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle log book, 1860-1868

Contributor:

Shafter, James McMillan (1816-1892)

Name:

Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle; Shafter, Oscar Lovell, 1812-1873; Heydenfeldt, Solomon, 1816-1890; Park, T. W. (Trenor William), 1823-1882; Goold, Edmond Louis, 1818-1880; Dwinelle, John W. (John Whipple), 1816-1881

Timespan:

!9th century; 19th century

Date:

1860

Description:

An oversize volume comprising a case log book of the firm Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle spanning the years from 1860 to 1868. The volume documents the firm's cases and outcomes chronologically. Information contained in the volume documents the firm's representation of both defendants or plaintiffs, type of case, court dates, filings, appeal dates, and court decisions. Written in the margins are the initials of the partnership and opposing counsel and dates. The law firm's variety of cases included contracts, damages, divorces, evictions, foreclosures, land disputes, patent infringement, perjury, probates, real property, and quieting titles. The partnership represented the City of San Francisco in several cases known as City Slip Suits regarding lots centered in the Sacramento area concerning land and water rights. Some highlights of the numerous cases recorded in the volume include collecting damages for a lost trunk from the California Steam Navigation Company; a trademark case involving Veuve Clicquot adn Bernhard Hersch; a patent infringement case involving Samuel B. Morse; a water rights case involving John Bensley and San Francisco Water works; and an estate dispute of Henrietta M. Garwood and the estate of Joseph M. Garwood. The firm's cases were represented in the courts of California, Marin County, San Francisco, the Nevada Territory, and police court. Numbered pages in the volume are stamped 1-639.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2009.05.13.00001).; Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.; Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Subject:

Jews -- California -- History -- 19th century; Law firms -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Lawyers -- California -- History -- !9th century; Lawyers; History; Law firms; Jews

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); logs (records); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 volume

Geographic Subject:

California

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A law firm in serving Northern California in the San Francisco Bay area from 1854 to around 1870. The firm represented citizens, companies, and San Francisco. The partnership was founded in 1854 by Trenor W. Park and Vermont native Oscar Lovell Shafter. The partnership changed and evolved over the years as Shafter's brother James McMillan Shafter joined the firm in 1857 becoming Shafter, Park, & Shafter. In 1857 the partnership expanded with the addition of former California Supreme Court associate justice Solomon Heydenfeldt, who in 1858 successfully defended a Jewish man's right to work on Sunday when the firm became Shafters, Park & Heydenfeldt. In 1863 Edmond Louis Goold joined the firm and it became Shafters, Heydenfeldt & Goold. In 1863 Heydenfeldt left the firm and it became Shafters & Goold. The last iteration of the firm was Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle after John W. Dwinelle joined the the partners in 1864.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, MS 56, Codex 030.1

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)