The New York Times
6 January 1965
CARROLL WALTER, EX-JUSTICE, DEAD
Democrat, 79, Also Served as State Court Referee
Carroll G. Walter, former New York State Supreme Court Justice, died on Monday at Weatherford, Tex., where he had lived since 1958. He was 79 years old.
Justice Walter, a Democrat, was elected to a full 14-year term in the Court's First Judicial District (Manhattan and the Bronx) in 1939, and re-elected in 1953. He retired two years later upon reaching the statutory age limit. He served for the next two years as an official referee of the court.
Justice Walter started his judicial career in the New York County Court House in Foley Square 25 years ago, when after his installation he stated simply to a group of friends and well-wishers that "it is an office to which I have long aspired."
A lawyer here since 1908, he was the author of two legal volumes, "Office and Work of Notaries Public," and "Brief Writing and Advocacy."
Justice Walter ruled in October, 1955 that picketing could be held illegal if it did actual harm to an employer's business, even though it was peaceable and designed to promote a lawful union aim. The order was issued on a plea by Meltex, Inc., a woolen concern, and directed against a unit of the Department Store Union.
In a similar case in June, 1954, he issued a permanent injunction restraining the American Federation of Musicians from picketing stations WOR and WOR-TV.
Justice Walter was born at Winchester, Va., studied at the University of Virginia, and took his law degree at New York Law School in 1908. He was associated during his career as a lawyer with the firm of Patterson, Eagle, Greenough and Day.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Lena Fielder Walter, a native of Weatherford.