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SMITH, Erasmus Darwin, jurist, born in De Ruyter, Madison County, New York, 10 October, 1806; died in Rochester, New York, 11 November, 1883. He was educated at Hamilton college, admitted to the bar, became a master in chancery in 1832, serving three successive terms, was made injunction-master for the 8th district of New York in 1840, and clerk of that court in 1841, and was a justice of the supreme court of New York from 1855 till 1877, when he was retired on account of age. He served on the court of appeals in 1862 and 1870, and was general term justice in 1872-'7. Chief-Justice Chase said of his decision in the legal-tender case of Hayes vs. Powers, which settled the power of the Federal government to issue paper money as a war measure, that "its influence on the credit of the government was equal to a victory in the field." Rochester gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1868.
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