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Douglas A. Hedin: "When Justice Mitchell Changed His Mind--Twice." (2006)

In his first two years on the supreme court, Associate Justice William Mitchell wrote two opinions in which he announced that he had changed his mind on issues he had recently decided the other way. The first involved an "imperfect" mortgage redemption statute, the second concerned whether evidence of subsequent repairs was admissible in a negligence action. This article, which appeared first in the June 2006 issue of "The Hennepin Lawyer," discusses those cases and Mitchell's attitude toward precedent.

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Edwin Ames Jaggard: "William Mitchell." (1909)

William Mitchell served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1881 to 1900.

This article appeared first as a chapter in the eighth and final volume of "Great American Lawyers," a set of profiles of famous judges and lawyers in nineteenth century America, edited by William Draper Lewis, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and published in 1909. The author of this article is Edwin Ames Jaggard, who served as Associate Justice on the same court from 1905 to 1911.

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Judge Mitchell's Court Calendars: March 13-18 & March 16-20, 1879.

The proceedings of the Winona County District Court during March 13-18, 1879, and October 16-20, 1879, were reported by "The Winona Herald."

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