Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

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Correspondence (incoming): McCarthy, John B., 1893-1896

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1612 15th St nw

The Arlington:

T. E. Roessle, Proprietor.

Washington, D. C. March 2, 1896

My dear Mrs Stanford.

Please accept my sincere congratulations over the decision of U. S. Supreme Court today, giving you a victory. I wired Mr. Lathrop of the glorious result, and presume he informed you. I would have wired you direct, but saw that Miss Patton and several others were sending you the good news by wire, so I heed my congratulations for the mail.

Sincerely yours

John B. McCarthy

The courtroom was crowded and we could hardly refrain from cheering outright when Judge Harlan read the decision.

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Judge Harlan

John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) was a lawyer from Kentucky who served as Attorney General of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867. He was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Rutherford B. Hayes and served on the court from 1877 until his death in 1911. In 1896 Harlan delivered the opinion of the court in the case U S v. Stanford that affirmed that the stockholders of the Central Pacific Railroad were not liable for the unpaid government bond debt of the company, thus making the assets that had been denied to Jane Stanford through the duration of the lawsuit to be once more available to her to provide funding to Stanford University and to be willed to its endowment.

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