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What was Stephen Johnson Field's relationship to David S. Terry?
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Stephen Johnson Field and David S. Terry were both judges in California. They met in 1859 when Field replaced the former chief justice of the California Supreme Court, David S. Terry, because Terry killed a United States Senator from California (David Colbreth Broderick) in a duel and left the state. Field and Terry's paths crossed again 30 years later when Field, acting in his capacity as a circuit judge of the 9th Federal Circuit Court, ruled against Terry in a convoluted divorce case (and