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2 unusual facts about Court of Common Pleas


James William Freshfield

After reading the law, he was sworn in as attorney at the Kings Bench on 8 June 1795 and in the Court of Common Pleas on 14 June 1795.

Matthew Crooks Cameron

With the defeat of the Macdonald government in the provincial election that December, Cameron became leader of the Ontario Conservative Party, but stepped down in 1878 to became Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.


Celebrezze family

Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. (born 1952), Judge of Court of Common Pleas 1992-2000, Judge of Ohio Court of Appeals, 2001-present.

Charles Kurfess

Following his retirement from politics, he went on to serve as a judge on the Wood County Court of Common Pleas.

Colman O'Shaughnessy

When his uncle, William O'Shaughnessy, died in 1744, he became the Chief of the Name and commenced a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas to recover the ancient O'Shaughnessy estates at Gort in County Galway, Ireland.

Daniel C. Verplanck

From 1828 to 1830 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Dutchess County.

Delaware Superior Court

It also serves as an intermediate appellate court, hearing appeals on the record from the Court of Common Pleas, Family Court, and most state administrative agencies.

Doug Reichley

In 2011, he was elected Judge on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas.

Dwayne Woodruff

Woodruff was elected in 2005 to be a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Ebenezer Foster

Court of oyer and terminer and a judge in the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County and as a school trustee for Woodbridge Township.

Edmund V. Ludwig

Ludwig was elected a Judge on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas in 1968, and went to serve as a Clinical associate professor at Hahnemann University, and a visiting lecturer at Temple University's Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980's.

Edward Dumbauld

In 1949, he returned to private practice in Uniontown, Pennsylvania from 1949 to 1957, when he became a judge on the Court of Common Pleas, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, serving until 1961.

Giles Rooke

At the next Exeter assizes he prosecuted to conviction William Winterbotham, a dissenting minister at Plymouth, for preaching sermons of a revolutionary tendency; and on 13 November of the same year was appointed to the puisne judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas, left vacant by the death of John Wilson.

Joe Jurevicius

On June 26, 2009, Jurevicius filed a lawsuit in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas naming the Browns, the Cleveland Clinic, and Browns team physicians, Dr. Anthony Miniaci and Dr. Richard Figler, as defendants.

Justice of Chester

Within the County Palatine (which encompassed Cheshire, the City of Chester, and Flintshire), the Justice enjoyed the jurisdiction possessed in England by the Court of Common Pleas and the King's Bench.

Robert E. Leach

In 1954, Leach won a two year short term on the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, and was re-elected to two six year full terms, serving until 1968.

Tony Capizzi

In 2000, Capizzi ran in a special election for a seat on the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.

Turtle Creek Township, Shelby County, Ohio

The first village in Shelby County Ohio was Hardin (named after Colonel John Hardin), which was platted October 5, 1816; after the county was organized in 1819, it became the seat of justice and the first Court of Common Pleas, and session of the County Commissioners was held there.


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Charles Chapman Barber

In the chancery proceedings by which, in 1867, the celebrated Orton or Castro first sought to establish his claim to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates, Barber held a brief for the defendants, as he did again in the first of the two actions of ejectment which were subsequently brought in the court of common pleas for the same purpose, in the well-known case of Tichborne v. Lushington, decided in 1872 after a trial which lasted 103 days.

Delaware Court of Common Pleas

In civil matters, Court of Common Pleas tries lawsuits in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $50,000 (small claims), petitions for name change, habitual offender hearings on the privilege of operating a motor vehicle, and administrative appeals from the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Ebenezer Webster

He was at various times a member of one or the other branch of the legislature, and from 1791 till his death was judge of the court of common pleas of Hillsborough County.

Jack Panella

Following graduation, he was selected to be a Judicial Law Clerk in the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Judiciary of Pennsylvania

They handle landlord-tenant matters, small civil claims (cases involving amount in controversy up to $12000), summary offenses, violations of municipal ordinances, and preliminary hearings and arraignments in greater misdemeanor and felony offenses pursuant to Pennsylvania's Rules of Criminal Procedure which go on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas.

Lance Mason

In August 2008, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland announced that he would appoint Mason to fill a vacancy on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

Matthias B. Hildreth

His family moved in 1797 from Southampton, Long Island to Johnstown, then in Montgomery County, New York, where his father James Hildreth (d. 1818) became judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

Peter F. Flaherty

John Flaherty, a lawyer and also no relation to Pete, was elected a Judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County and then Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

William H. Yohn, Jr.

In 1981 he was elected as a judge on the court of common pleas for Montgomery County, a position he held until 1991, when was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to the Eastern District.