Grant Jackson, esq.

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Grant Jackson (1869 - 1949) Attorney in Santa Barbra California, later became a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, 1906 - 1915.
While practising law in Santa Barbara, California, he gained a notorious reputation when he defended Yda Addis in her divorce from Charles A. Storke.The Daily Independent reported on July 11, 1898: "Grant Jackson and Yda Addis, the present warriors of Santa Barbara, were at one time dear friends, but their hearts no longer beat as one, but corporeally speaking, they beat at each other."
When Addis discovered Jackson's duplicity between he and her husband, Addis broke into his home one night, threatened him with a gun, two bullets were fired. Jackson overpowered Addis and called for the police. Addis was placed in jail.
Jackson left Santa Barbara for Los Angeles, where he became a community pilar and a judge. Jackson never married.

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