Joseph E. Frick (1848
[''Utah Since Statehood, Historical and Biographical'', by Noble Warrum, S. J. Clark publishing, 1919.] – February 12, 1927)
["Supreme Court Justice Dies", '']The Modesto Bee
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'' (February 13, 1927), p. 2. was a justice of the
Utah Supreme Court
The Utah Supreme Court is the supreme court of the state of Utah, United States. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. The Utah Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, an associate chief justice ...
from 1906 to 1919, and then from 1919 until his death in 1927, and was chief justice from 1910 to 1912, and from 1917 to 1919.
appointed by
Governor Bamberger[Stephen W. Julien, "The Utah State Supreme Court and Its Justices, 1896-1976"]
44 Utah Hist. Q.
267, 280-82 (1976).
Frick was appointed to a seat vacated by the resignation of
George W. Bartch, and was reelected om 1912. He was defeated in a second bid for re-election in 1918 by
Albert J. Weber, but in 1919 was appointed to a different seat vacated by the death of
William M. McCarty.
Frick died at the home of his son, Fred O. Frick, in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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, where he had gone to recuperate from an illness, at the age of 78.
References
1848 births
1927 deaths
Justices of the Utah Supreme Court
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