Joseph Morrison Hill (September 2, 1864 – July 23, 1950) was an American lawyer who served as chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1904 to 1909.
[1] The youngest son of Confederate Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill and Isabella Morrison Hill,[2] Joseph Hill received his law degree from Cumberland University in 1883.
[3] Hill opened a law practice in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, moving to Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1887.
[1] He was elected Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1904, and served until 1909 when he resigned to become the state's chief attorney for in a railroad rate lawsuit.
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