Age at death 63 years 8 months 5 days
Marital status Married
Spouse name Rosemond Sprigg
Occupation Attorney
Residence Van Buren, Montgomery, Ohio
Father name John M. Sprigg
Father birth place Cumberland, Md
Mother name Mary Helfrich
Mother birth place Dayton, Ohio
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Carroll Sprigg was a 1901 graduate of Yale where he had been a football star. He practiced law with his father John McMahon Sprigg until his father’s death in 1907, and was associated for a short time with Roy Fitzgerald before becoming a common pleas judge in 1910. After he stepped down from the bench in 1917, he became President Wilson’s ambassador to Egypt before settling down to the law practice he maintained in the Harries Building until his death.
Sprigg was essentially a loner. His only associates were his son John Sprigg, who practiced for a short time before dying at an early age, William P. Patterson and John P. Naas.
Sprigg was gracious in victory and in defeat. Horace Baggott, Sr. tried his first case against Sprigg. Baggott lost the case but, because of an error committed by the judge, took the case to the Court of Appeals and eventually to the Ohio Supreme Court. At that point Sprigg called Baggott and asked if they could settle the case. He had decided that, even though he had won, another trial was wasteful and unnecessary. The case was settled.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
Marital status Married
Spouse name Rosemond Sprigg
Occupation Attorney
Residence Van Buren, Montgomery, Ohio
Father name John M. Sprigg
Father birth place Cumberland, Md
Mother name Mary Helfrich
Mother birth place Dayton, Ohio
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Carroll Sprigg was a 1901 graduate of Yale where he had been a football star. He practiced law with his father John McMahon Sprigg until his father’s death in 1907, and was associated for a short time with Roy Fitzgerald before becoming a common pleas judge in 1910. After he stepped down from the bench in 1917, he became President Wilson’s ambassador to Egypt before settling down to the law practice he maintained in the Harries Building until his death.
Sprigg was essentially a loner. His only associates were his son John Sprigg, who practiced for a short time before dying at an early age, William P. Patterson and John P. Naas.
Sprigg was gracious in victory and in defeat. Horace Baggott, Sr. tried his first case against Sprigg. Baggott lost the case but, because of an error committed by the judge, took the case to the Court of Appeals and eventually to the Ohio Supreme Court. At that point Sprigg called Baggott and asked if they could settle the case. He had decided that, even though he had won, another trial was wasteful and unnecessary. The case was settled.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
Age at death 63 years 8 months 5 days
Marital status Married
Spouse name Rosemond Sprigg
Occupation Attorney
Residence Van Buren, Montgomery, Ohio
Father name John M. Sprigg
Father birth place Cumberland, Md
Mother name Mary Helfrich
Mother birth place Dayton, Ohio
===
Carroll Sprigg was a 1901 graduate of Yale where he had been a football star. He practiced law with his father John McMahon Sprigg until his father’s death in 1907, and was associated for a short time with Roy Fitzgerald before becoming a common pleas judge in 1910. After he stepped down from the bench in 1917, he became President Wilson’s ambassador to Egypt before settling down to the law practice he maintained in the Harries Building until his death.
Sprigg was essentially a loner. His only associates were his son John Sprigg, who practiced for a short time before dying at an early age, William P. Patterson and John P. Naas.
Sprigg was gracious in victory and in defeat. Horace Baggott, Sr. tried his first case against Sprigg. Baggott lost the case but, because of an error committed by the judge, took the case to the Court of Appeals and eventually to the Ohio Supreme Court. At that point Sprigg called Baggott and asked if they could settle the case. He had decided that, even though he had won, another trial was wasteful and unnecessary. The case was settled.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
Marital status Married
Spouse name Rosemond Sprigg
Occupation Attorney
Residence Van Buren, Montgomery, Ohio
Father name John M. Sprigg
Father birth place Cumberland, Md
Mother name Mary Helfrich
Mother birth place Dayton, Ohio
===
Carroll Sprigg was a 1901 graduate of Yale where he had been a football star. He practiced law with his father John McMahon Sprigg until his father’s death in 1907, and was associated for a short time with Roy Fitzgerald before becoming a common pleas judge in 1910. After he stepped down from the bench in 1917, he became President Wilson’s ambassador to Egypt before settling down to the law practice he maintained in the Harries Building until his death.
Sprigg was essentially a loner. His only associates were his son John Sprigg, who practiced for a short time before dying at an early age, William P. Patterson and John P. Naas.
Sprigg was gracious in victory and in defeat. Horace Baggott, Sr. tried his first case against Sprigg. Baggott lost the case but, because of an error committed by the judge, took the case to the Court of Appeals and eventually to the Ohio Supreme Court. At that point Sprigg called Baggott and asked if they could settle the case. He had decided that, even though he had won, another trial was wasteful and unnecessary. The case was settled.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
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Burial date 23 Feb 1944
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