Connally Findlay Trigg
How Judge Trigg rules, drawn from 15 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Trigg no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Trigg decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
When interpreting a Civil War confiscation statute, Trigg looked beyond isolated technical terms to the statute as a whole and Congress's evident purpose.
“we must look to the whole body of the act, ascertain the intention of congress in passing it”
Procedural preferences
Trigg distinguished between relief available to a person served with a bankruptcy injunction and the standing required to attack the underlying adjudication.
“any one served might by petition or on motion, have a wrongful injunction dissolved, but that he would have no right to contest or vacate the adjudication”
Cautions
In an insurance-beneficiary dispute, Trigg treated delay as consequential where vested rights would otherwise remain uncertain through later premium payments.
“The time of the execution of Ackerman’s will was too late for the appointment”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“it is ordered that a discharge issue to the bankrupt in accordance therewith.”
“I cannot refuse the application to set the default and subsequent adjudication aside, and to allow Alonzo Murphy to show cause why he should not be adjudicated a bankrupt.”
“the court could not enjoin against the commission of such trespass, and that the parties must be left to their remedies at law.”
“issued a writ of habeas corpus for Milliken, and on its return discharged him from custody”
“The repo# of the register is confirmed in all things, except this, that the owner of the land is entitled to the rents until the day of sale to Scovel, and not till the day of confirmation of the sale.”
“It is, therefore, ordered that the said Miller Hurst be discharged from said imprisonment and released from custody”
“the bill was dismissed, the assignee taking an appeal.”
“Held, that the petition must be dismissed;”
“The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs.”
“The second charge in the information —to wit, that the cotton had been purchased in a state or district in insurrection, and was being thence transported into some one of the loyal states, in violation of the act of July 13, 1861—was decided in favor of the claimant”
“Without giving any other construction to any part of the will, the construction contended for by complainants must be refused.”
“It follows that the defendants, Abram, Delia, Leo and Carrie Judah are entitled to two-fifths of the proceeds of the Globe policy”
“I have, therefore, no power or jurisdiction, under the law, to grant the prayer of the petitioner in this ease, and consequently the writ must be denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The reviewed decisions predate representative electronic case-level dockets. The profile therefore makes no claim about complete caseload mix, case duration, administrative dispositions, or motion timing.
A historical record
Judge Trigg 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.