George Seabrook Bryan
How Judge Bryan rules, drawn from 7 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Bryan no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Bryan decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Williams, Bryan treated fee allowance and amount as equitable questions controlled by the court rather than by counsel and client.
“Whether a fee should be allowed, and for what amount, is to be determined by the court, and is a question addressed to its equity.”
Procedural preferences
In Grant, Bryan deferred to the creditors’ statutory choice of assignee absent a demonstrated character or competency problem.
“there being no imputation either upon his character or competency, the judge does not feel himself competent to. interfere”
Cautions
In the molasses forfeiture case, Bryan read the revenue statute to reach the whole fraudulent invoice rather than only the concealed articles or packages.
“No construction will carry out this obvious design, except that which the words of the law manifestly suggested”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the judge does not feel himself competent to. interfere, and does not interfere.”
“it is ordered that the report of Mr. Register Clawson be confirmed.”
“represented by the money now in the registry of this court, their legal substitute, be forfeited.”
“must, of necessity, be adjudged bankrupt.”
“the assignee in each of the above cases do pay into the registry of this court the amount reported to be due for one year’s rent, with interest”
“I have not been able to find the insolvency of the company, or decide that it is insolvent”
“the assignment of homestead in land be vacated;”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level docket records were located for this judge, so no caseload mix or duration estimate is reported.
A historical record
Judge Bryan no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.