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JAMES WESTERVELT
James Westervelt, who has been
connected with a number of important litigated interests during his long and
successful professional career, has been a practicing attorney of Los Angeles
for the past eighteen years. He was born
at West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond county, New York, May 18, 1872, a
son of Judge Tompkins Westervelt and Anna (Titus) Westervelt. In the acquirement of an education he spent
six years as a student at St. Paul’s School of Concord, New Hampshire, and
subsequently matriculated at Princeton University of New Jersey, from which he
was graduated in 1892 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, while
three years later, in 1895, the same institution conferred upon him the Master
of Arts degree. His specifically
professional training was received at the New York Law School, from which he
was graduated in 1894, and in May of that year he was admitted to practice in
New York, second department. The
following year he was admitted to the New Jersey bar and in 1900 was admitted
to practice before the United States supreme court.
It was in March, 1917, that Mr.
Westervelt established his residence in Los Angeles and became a member of the
California bar. His mind is analytical,
logical and inductive. With a thorough
and comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental principles of law, he combines a
familiarity with statutory law and a sober, clear judgment which makes him a
formidable adversary in legal combat.
Some of the important cases in which he has been retained as counsel are
the following: Coca-Cola Company versus
Koke Company of America, Arizona; Lynde versus Lynde in New York, New Jersey
and the United States supreme court; Development Company, Southern Pacific,
Arizona and Kentucky.
Appreciative of the social amenities
of life, Mr. Westervelt has membership in the Brentwood Country Club, the Tiger
Inn of Princeton, New Jersey, and Princeton Club of Southern California.
Transcribed by
Mary Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Pages 747-748, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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