He was much impressed by Mr. Sherman's clear
and powerful argument. Mr. Sherman and Judge Gould were
engaged on opposite sides in nearly all the cases. Professor
Greenleaf was so much interested by what he heard that he
remained and attended court during the entire week. I do
not remember his exact language, but he, in substance, gave
an estimate of Mr. Sherman as a profound lawyer and able advocate,
not less exalted than President Woolsey had given of him as
an orator.
Some slight account of Roger Minott Sherman will be found
in Goodrich's "Recollections."
Mr. Evarts once told me that there was an important controversy,
involving the title to a valuable cargo, in which a lawyer
in Hartford was on one side, and a member of the Bar of the
city of New York on the other. The New York lawyer went to
Hartford to negotiate about the case. The Hartford lawyer
had obtained the opinion of Roger Minott Sherman for his client
and held it in his hand during the conversation, labelled
on the outside, "Opinion of Roger Minott Sherman," and moved
it about under the eye of his opponent.
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