Author:Freeman Walker Compton

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Freeman Walker Compton
(1824–1893)

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Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas during three periods: under the Confederacy from 1859 to 1864, then from 1866 until he was ousted by the Union military government in 1868, and then was appointed to serve during 1874.

Works

Decisions of the Arkansas Supreme Court

Opinions of the Court

Phelps v. Patterson, 25 Ark. 185 (1867)

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