John Norton Pomeroy (1828–1885)

American writer on jurisprudence, born in Rochester, NY, on the 12th of April 1828. He graduated at Hamilton College, studied law and began practice in Rochester, NY; held a professorship in the University of the City of New York from 1864 to 1865; continued practice until 1878; in that year accepted a call to the chair of law in the University of California, where he remained till his death. Professor Pomeroy edited the West Coast Reporter from 1884 to 1885; was the author of treatises on Municipal Law; Constitutional Law of the United States, used us a textbook at West Point and elsewhere; Remedies and Remedial Rights; Specific Performance of Contract; Equity Jurisprudence; and Riparian Rights; and edited Sedgwick’s Statutory and Constitutional Law (1874); and Archbold’s Criminal Law (1876). He died on the 15th of February 1885.