Autograph Letter, Signed. on David Dudley Field and Dudley Field, Counsellors at Law letterhead.

San Francisco: David Dudley Field and Dudley Field, Counsellors at Law, 1865 Letter. Very fine. No Binding. Autograph Letter, Signed. Dated March 16, 1865. Octavo. 8¼ x 5 inches. 2pp. on law firm letterhead. Minor creases where folded. Written on recto and verso. Slight bleed-through of writing on verso. A very fine copy. Letter written by David Dudley Field. Signed, "Dudley Field." David Dudley Field was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure. His greatest accomplishment was the engineering of the move away from common law pleading towards code pleading, which culminated in the enactment of the Field Code in 1850 by the state of New York. This letter is dated when David Dudley Field was the older brother of California's Chief Justice, Stephen J. Field. .