James Gould (Jurist)

James Gould ( born December 5, 1770 in Branford, Connecticut, † May 11, 1838 in Litchfield, Connecticut ) was an American lawyer, who taught at the Litchfield Law School.

Life

His great-grandfather Richard had immigrated around 1700 of Devonshire by Branford. James graduated in 1791 from Yale University successfully, where he worked from 1793 to 1795 as a tutor. In 1795 he continued his education at the Litchfield Law School, founded in 1784. After his admission to the bar in 1798, he joined the law firm of University founder Tapping Reeve and was also a teacher at the university. In 1816 he was appointed as a judge of the highest court of Connecticut, the Supreme Court of Connecticut, he had to leave after the adoption of the new Constitution in 1818. In 1820 he was Superintendent of the university, of which he took over from 1823 to 1833 after the death of Reeve. Gould published Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions ( New York, 1832 edition of Franklin F. Heard, Albany, 1887).

His son Edward Sherman Gould (1808-1885) was a noted writer, translator and literary critic. Another son, John W. Gould (1814-1838), published stories to sailing.