"A Man of the Courts" contains the stories of 46 cases tried in the courts of Kentucky. All were reported by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. A portion of each appellate decision follows the story of the case. The Hart County lawyer who practiced all these cases was the legendary Davis Williams widely regarded as a one of the most outstanding trial attorneys in Kentucky from 1936 until his death in 1981.
The first case involves a shooting at a roadhouse called "White Tavern" on Christmas Eve, 1946. The defendant still has many relatives in Hart County. The book concludes with "The White Star Garage Case" in which the defendants were from Cub Run. In between you'll read of the fight over the biggest Muskie in Green River,. the case of a young man accused of killing his grandmother which Williams took to the United States Supreme Court, the election contest between Jack Sims and Judge Harold Atwell, a fraud perpetrated on an Archbishop who thought he was investing in the Green County Oil Boom, and forty others.
Munfordville attorney Charles D. Williams compiled this volume and prepared an index that contains over 600 entries. In that index you will read the names of hundreds of Hart Countians you know or remember. As Williams writes in his Preface: "This is a work of local history and family history, because all small town lawyers who practice their cases in our courts are participants in the history of our nation.".
The first case involves a shooting at a roadhouse called "White Tavern" on Christmas Eve, 1946. The defendant still has many relatives in Hart County. The book concludes with "The White Star Garage Case" in which the defendants were from Cub Run. In between you'll read of the fight over the biggest Muskie in Green River,. the case of a young man accused of killing his grandmother which Williams took to the United States Supreme Court, the election contest between Jack Sims and Judge Harold Atwell, a fraud perpetrated on an Archbishop who thought he was investing in the Green County Oil Boom, and forty others.
Munfordville attorney Charles D. Williams compiled this volume and prepared an index that contains over 600 entries. In that index you will read the names of hundreds of Hart Countians you know or remember. As Williams writes in his Preface: "This is a work of local history and family history, because all small town lawyers who practice their cases in our courts are participants in the history of our nation.".