William Shankland Andrews

William Shankland Andrews (September 25, 1858 – August 5, 1936) was a judge on the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York) from 1917-1928, where he dissented from several opinions by noted fellow judge Benjamin Cardozo. These included dissents in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. and Meinhard v. Salmon, both cases in which Andrews expressed a sharply different philosophy of the responsibilities people owe to one another.

Andrews was born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. He graduated from Harvard College in 1880, received his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University in 1882, and began his Syracuse legal practice in 1884.

Andrews retired from the bench on December 31, 1928. He died in Syracuse in 1936 from a fall from his bed, 3 days after the death of his wife.^[1]

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Historical Society of the Courts of New York (portrait gallery with a link to a biography of William S. Andrews)

^ "W.S. Andrews Dies in Fall From bed. Retired Appellate Judge, Distinguished for Rulings, Found Dead in Syracuse Home. Followed Wife in 3 Days. Lehman Declares State and Thousands of People Suffer Loss by Their Deaths.", New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-05-20. "William Shankland Andrews, former judge of the State Court of Appeals, was found dead in his bedroom at Wolf Hollow, his Taunton estate, this morning. He was the victim of a peculiar accident, his neck having been broken when he fell from his bed, apparently in an effort to reach a glass of milk on a table beside the bed. He was 77 years old."