William S. Case
American judge
About William S. Case
William Scoville Case (June 27, 1863 – February 28, 1921) was a Connecticut lawyer, author, and judge who served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1919 to 1921.
Early life, education, and career Born at Tariffville, Connecticut to distinguished Connecticut lawyer William Cullen Case and Margaret Turnbull Case, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, the Scroll and Key society, and served as managing editor of the Yale Record. Case also wrote a history of Granby, Connecticut, included in J. Hammond Trumbull's Memorial History of Hartford County.
Personal life and death On April 8, 1891, Case married Elizabeth Nichols, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Rodman Nichols of Salem, Massachusetts, with whom he had two sons (one of whom died in infancy) and a daughter. Case died of a throat ailment at his home in West Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 55.
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