Biographical Note

Scope and Contents

I. Series One -- Briefs and Cases

Boxes 1 -- 14

II. Series Two -- Personal Papers

Boxes 1 -- 10

1982 Addendum

Boxes 11 -- 14

III. Series Three -- Citations

Boxes 1 -- 50

IV. Series Four -- Jury Instructions

Boxes 1 -- 7

Henry N. Graven (1893 -- 1970) was born in Saint James, Minnesota. In 1921, he graduated from the University of Minnesota with both his B.A. and LL.B. That same year, after being admitted to the bar in both Iowa and Minnesota, he began a law practice in Greene, Iowa, with his brother James. Graven served as Iowa’s Assistant Attorney General from 1936 -- 1937 and was also council to the Iowa Highway Commission. He left his law practice in 1937 when Governor Kraschel appointed him Judge of the 12th Judicial District of Iowa. Judge Graven instigated the program of continuing legal education which was later adopted by the Iowa State Bar Association. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated him to the federal bench. He was a U.S. District Judge for the northern district of Iowa until 1961, when he informed President Kennedy of his desire to retire from his regular duties. However, as a United States Senior District Judge, during his retirement Judge Graven was called upon to serve in many jurisdictions with overcrowded schedules. Consequently, he held court in New York, North Dakota, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, California, and Puerto Rico.

Active in the American Lutheran Church, Judge Graven initiated the pastoral system for the church, which has served as a guideline for other similar pension plans of other religious sects. For twenty five years, he served as the chairman of the Pension Board of the American Lutheran Church. Judge Graven was also a member and former president of the Board of Trustees of the School of Religion at the University of Iowa.

The papers of Henry N. Graven consist of 50 linear feet of manuscripts (100 boxes), dating from 1908 to 1974, documenting his legal and judicial career along with his work for the Lutheran Church of America and the University of Iowa’s School of Religion The papers are arranged in four separate series: 1) Briefs and cases; 2) Personal papers; 3) Citations, and; 4) Jury instructions. The first series of briefs and cases contains material relating to lawsuits. Here are subject folders concerning issues such as contracts, types of evidence, insurance policies, and treaties. The personal papers date from 1908 to 1974 and consist of fourteen boxes of manuscripts. This section spans his lifetime and reflects his many interests. There is material from his high school days and his service during WWI, papers relating to the Lutheran Church, information on his law clerks and his retirement from the bench, along with many other subjects. Correspondence folders include letters from: Guy M. Gillette, Nelson G. Kraschel, Wiley Rutledge, and Mason Ladd. The largest section, titled citations, is comprised of sixty-five boxes of legal papers. Arranged alphabetically by subject, this series contains folders on abandonment to motor vehicles and product liability to World War veterans. The papers end with a collection of jury instructions given by Graven while serving on the bench.

 Box 1

Accord & satisfaction

Appointment of attorney for receiver -- Attorney's fees in derivative stockholders suit, appointment of temporary receiver (notebook)

Automatic Washer Co.

Bailments -- Conversion -- Grain

Bank robber case (Fernandez & Sanchez)

Bard vs. Ufford

Bills & Notes -- Conditional delivery

Carries, passengers, duty, Res Ipsa Loquitur

Contracts:

Dealer

Employee not to complete

Remorandum or confirmation of previous oral agreement

Lifetime

Matuality

Corporation cases

Corporation material

Corporations, derivative suits -- Receiver Res Judicata

Damages -- Liquidated, briefs on

Deeds -- For care & support

Dolch vs. Garraid

Drafting competition -- Remorandum to Robert F. Cosgrove

Easements

Employees Liability Act instructions

Evidence:

Custom -- Experts

Exclamation of bystanders

Impeaching statements

Incompetent, irrelevant, & immaterial

Parole

Faville -- Reply brief of Faville as to constructive trust

Federal interpleader since the act of 1936

Fernadez & Sanchez [see Bank robber case]

Figueroa de Arrozo, Rosa M. vs. Sindicato de Trabajadores Pachinzhouse

Fuel Barges, Inc. vs. American Marine Corp

Gonzaliz, Santiago Hermino, J Barredo against

Edelmira Folla Schenck

Gruemmer gas fraud case

Hallinan, Mae vs. John W. Gardner

Harroun vs. Joseph Scholtz [Trover & Conversion -- Memorandum opinion]

Houston (5 folders)

Hughson vs. Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. (3 folders)

Index of cases

Innkeepers -- Loss of guest's baggage

Instructions -- As to tax consequences of verdict

Insurance:

Application of money in hands of insurance company on premiums

Disability

Duty to protect property and to exhibit property

Lightning and livestock

Loan receipts and covenants not to sue

Motor vehicle -- Where two policies cover same accident

Oral transfer of insurance policy

What constitutes a windstorm

Iowa tax titles and tax title abstracts

Irvine Ranch case

Legal information please

Libel and slander

Liken vs. Vechten

Limitations, statute of

Low (Leroy) vs Ford Hopkins Co.

MacNider case -- Corporations memorandum

MacNider case, -- Defendants briefs (3 notebooks)

MacNider case -- Briefs

MacNider case -- Briefs

Malpractice medical cases

Minutes of special meeting of board of directors of Amana Society

Mooney Aircraft, Inc. vs. Delray Beach Aviation Corp.

Moreno V. Celebrezze

Mortgages -- Equity of redemption (3 folders)

Motor vehicle -- Briefs in Hoosier Casualty Company case

Nebraska standardized instruction (2 folders)

New Orleans trial schedule

New York obscenity case, the film "491"

Periodical Distributors, Inc. vs. The American News Co.

Principal and surety (2 folders)

Roshed brothers trial at Davenport, 1958

Runyon murder case

Salaries and bonuses

Sales & consignments

San Antonio

San Juan (3 folders)

Schools and school districts (2 folders)

Schoonover briefs (4 folders)

Securities and Exchange Commission -- Short swing profits

Serzysko vs. The Chase Manhattan Bank

Sheldon Bank embezzler case (2 folders)

Southern Conference of Teamsters vs. Braswell Motor Freight Lines

Suggested forms for the formation of corporations

Susi vs. Belle Action Stables, Inc.

Sweeney vs. Sugar Refining Co.

Taxation (2 folders)

Treaties and executive agreements

Treaty rights of consuls in administration of estates

Trusts and trustees (3 folders)

USA vs. Victor Harry Feguer (3 folders)

USA vs. Ray E. Friedman

USA vs. Howard Hunt

USA vs. H. L. McKinley

USA vs. Menier Hardware No. 1, Inc.

USA vs. Rebel Towing Co.

USA vs. Charles H. Smith

USA vs. Henry Joseph Sosa - Sosa

Waters and watercourses

Watters vs. Iowa State Traveling Men's Association

Weede vs. Bechtel (3 briefs)

 Box 1

Annals of Iowa

"Appellate cases in which I wrote the Opinion"

Appellate decisions

Articles of interest (4 folders)

Bench book

"The boy no one wanted"

Brotherhood Institute -- Waverly, Feb., 1958

“Burrows” Editorial by Mr. Robert O. Burrows Sr. of the Belle Plaine Union

Canons of professional ethics, canons of judicial ethics

Carspecken, Phil, "Romance of the records"

Centennial session, Dubuque, Iowa, Jan. 7, 1950

Christmas Day, France, 1918

Christmas Eve, 1908

Correspondence files (9 folders)

Criminal correspondence (10 folders)

Dedication of new church

Drake estate case

Evidence in motor vehicle cases

Expense vouchers (8 folders)

Expense vouchers (2 folders)

Foutschel, "Aid Plans in the Ohio and Iowa Synods"

Graven speeches and personal items

Mrs. Graven's account of a trip to Europe

Greene High School football

Hicklin, Judge Edwin R., photograph

"Some historical highlights in Iowa Federal Court history," Drake Supreme Court Day, April 6, 1958

Inauguration of Dyersville Basillica

Inventory of books

Iowa Bench News

Iowa State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (2 folders).

Judicial matters (4 folders)

Judicial mattters

Law clerks (6 folders)

Lewis and Clark ceremonies

Lincoln's living great grandchildren

Lutheran Church (3 folders)

McNeely, Lee, photograph

Matters of interest to lawyers and judges

Miscellaneous (9 folders)

Miscellaneous (2 folders)

New York law

Obituaries, 1970

One hundreth anniversary of the Iowa constitution of 1857

One hundred years of Federal Court in the Northern District of Iowa

Opinions and findings published March 30, 1944, to date

Opinion lists

Parker, Judge Issac C.

Phi Alpha Delta -- Honorary membership

Political campaign of 1928

Probation

Receipt and inventory of furniture, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa, 1959

Memorials (2 folders)

Red mass

Retirement of Judge Graven (2 folders)

School of Religion

Scroll to Judge Graven from the lawyers of the 10th Judicial District of Iowa

Senate hearings on improvements in judicial machinery (3 folders)

Some memories

Talks (3 folders)

Tenth anniversary

West Publishing Co.

SERIES II. PERSONAL PAPERS (CONT.):  

 Box 11

American Lutheran Church, 1964 -- 1969

Annals of Iowa, vol. 30, nos. 2 & 4, Oct. 1949 & Apr. 1950

Biographical material, 1919 -- 1961

Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America, 1916 -- 1950

Certificates, 1919 -- 1970

Correspondence:

1919 -- 1937. Including letters from: Everett M. Dirksen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Guy M. Gillette, Clyde Herring, John W. Gwynne, and Fred Biermann

1938 -- 1942. Including letters from: Guy M. Gillette, Nelson G. Kraschel, and Wiley Rutledge

January -- August 1943. Including letters from: Wiley Rutledge, Paul H. McCoid, and Guy M. Gillette

September -- December 1943. Including letters from: Wiley Rutledge, John W. Gwynne, Jake More, Nelson G. Kraschel, and Guy M. Gillette

 Correspondence (cont.):

January -- March 20, 1944. Including letters from:Guy M. Gillette, John W. Gwynne, Jake More, and Everett M. Dirksen

March 21, 1944 -- 1947. Including letters from: Nelson G. Kraschel, Guy M. Gillette, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, J. Edgar Hoover, Wiley Rutledge, and Clyde L. Herring

1948 -- 1955. Including letters from: Wiley Rutledge, Nelson G. Kraschel, Guy M. Gillette, Mason Ladd, J. Edgar Hoover, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Tom C. Clark, Everett M. Dirksen, Seth Thomas, and W. Earl Hall

1956 -- 1959. Including letters from: Mason Ladd and Seth Thomas

1960 -- April 1961. Including letters from: Mason Ladd, Fred Biermann, Earl Warren, Theodore G. Garfield, Robert D. Jackson, Tom C. Clark, Guy M. Gillette, H.R. Gross, John F. Kennedy, James E. Bromwell, and Everett M. Dirksen

May 1961 -- 1967. Including letters from: James E. Bromwell, Mason Ladd, Fred Biermann, and Arthur R. Kudart

Correspondance (cont.):

1968 -- 1974. Including a letter from Theodore G. Garfield

Undated. Including letters from W. Earl Hall, and Tom C. Clark

Court proceedings, December 13, 1952. Recognition of Lee McNeely's years of service. For more information on McNeely, please see the materials provided by the Tripp County Historical Museum in South Dakota.

Fort Dodge, Iowa -- Federal courthouse dedication, 1961

Graven family genealogy

Honorary degree, June 1, 1962. Doctor of Humane Letters, Wartburg College

Iowa State Bar Association, 1957. Award of merit

Loth, Alan -- "A review of Farmers Cooperative vs Birmingham, 86 F. Supp. 201," 1950

Miscellaneous, 1937 -- 1967

Newspaper clippings, 1918 -- 1962

Newspaper clippings, printed excerpts, 1911, 1940 -- 1961

"Order in the court or the trial of Elmer Smithers," 1951 -- Play

Photographs

"Relation of the court to probationers during the period of probation”, Federal Probation, vol. 13 (Dec. 1949) no. 4, by Henry Graven

Runyon, Thomas J., 1937, 1953 -- 1957

Scrapbook

Scrapbook

Speeches, 1937 -- 1952

Tributes to Graven upon his retirement, 1961

 Box 1

Abandonment

Abstracts

Access

Accomplice testimony

Accountants

Account stated

Accountancy, action for

Accounts receivable

Accord and satisfaction

Acquiesence

Act of God

Actions

Adjoining landowners

Administrative agencies

Admiralty laws

Adoption

Affidavits

Age

Agency

Agriculture

Aiding and abetting

Alibi

Alienation of affections

Alimony

Animals

Arts -- Racketeering act

Anti-trust

Appeal

Arbitration

Architects

Arrest

Arson

Assault, including assault on federal officers

Assault & battery

Assignments

Assignments for benefit of creditors

Assimilated Crimes Act

Assumed name

Attachment

Attempt

Attorney

Attorney - General

Attorneys

Aviation

Aviation, criminal

Bail

Bailments

Bankruptcy:

Bankruptcy, general (2 folders)

Bankruptcy, notice of

Banks, public and banks & bondholders

Banks & Banking (2 folders)

Bastards

Beauty shops

Bills and notes

Blassting

Boundaries

Breach of promise

Breaking & entering

Bribery

Bulk Sales Act

Burglary

Cars

Cemetaries

Charities and charitable corporations

Chiropractor

Chattel mortgages & conditions sales

Cities and towns

City

Claims

Clerk of Court

Colored D.

Commissioner, U.S.

Commor carriers

Communism

Compromise and settlement

Confessions and admissions

Conflict of laws

Consignments

Conspiracy

Constitutional law

Contracts

Contracts

Conversion, criminal

Copyright

Coroners

Corporations, criminal

Corpus delecti

Costs

Counter claims

Counties

Courts

Credit cards

Criminal acts

Damages

Damages

Damaging

Dawer right

Debtor & creditor

Declamatory judgements

Dedications

Deeds

Defendent:

Failure to testify

Presence at trial as a witness

Defrauding US

Deliberation & premeditation

Dentists

Discharges

Discovery

Discovery

Divorces

Domicile

Duress

Easements

Elections

Election of remedies

Electricity

Electricity lines

Embezzlement

Eminent domain

Employers Liability Act

Engineers

Entrapment

Equity

Erie R. vs. Tompkins

Escapes

Escheats

Estoppel

Evidence

Evidence

Evidence

Evidence:

General

Circumstantial

Including value

Executions

Executor & administration -- Problems of foreign administration

Exemplum exemptions excluding homesteads

Explosions

Extortion

Extradition

Factors

False claims against US

False pretenses

Federal Tort Claims Act

Fees

Fences

Firearms

Fires

Fireworks

Fire Arms Act

Fixtures

Flight

Forcible fntry & detainer

Forgery

Forgery -- Civil

Frauds, statute of

Fraudulent consequences

Fraudulent regulations

Frazier - Lemke Act

Fugitive Felons Act

Gambling

Garnishment

General

General criminal

Gifts

Graft

Grand jury

Good will government agencies

Guardian ad litem

Habeas corpus

Handcuffing at trial

Highways -- Other than matters relating to motor vehicles

Homesteads (under bankruptcy)

Hospitals

Husband & wife

ICC regulations

Impersonations

Included offences

Indians

Indictment & information

Infants

Informer

Inherited property

Injunction

Innkeepers

Inkeepers

Insane persons

Insanity

Insanity, criminal

Instructions

Insurance:

General

Life

Other than motor vehicle

Insurance, other than motor vehicle

Intent

Interest (2 folders)

Interpleader

Interpleader -- Federal

Interstate commerce

Intervention

Intoxicating liquors

Intoxication -- Civil

Involuntary

Jeopardy

Joinder & conspiracy & criminal evidence

Joint tenants

Joint tortfeasors

Joint venture

Judgements

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction -- Summary & turnover

Jurisdiction & venue

Justice of the Peace

Juvenile Court

Juvenile delinquency

Kidnapping

Labor laws (2 folders)

Laches

Landlord & tenant

Landlord & tenant

Larceny

Lateral support

Leasehold interests

Leases

Legislative Court Study Commission

Lewdness

Libel & slander

Liens

Limitations, statute of

Lost property

Mail fraud & postal crimes

Malice

Malicious prosecution

Malpractice

Malpractice -- Physicians & surgeons

Mandamus

Mann Act

Master & servant

Mechanics liens

Migratory Bird Act

Mining law

Mistakes

Mobile homes

Money

Money had & received

Mortgages

Motive

Motor vehicles

Motor vehicles

Motor vehicles

Motor vehicles

Motor vehicles

Names

Naturalization

New trial

Newspapers

Next friend

No event

No eye witness rule

Nolo contendere

Notary Public

Notice -- Expressed or implied

Novation

Nuisances

 Box 35

Parent & child

Parties -- Practice & Procedure, Federal

Partnership

Patents

Patents

Payment

Perjury

Petitions for rReview

Pipelines

Pledges

Poison

Possession

Possession, Writ of

Possessions

Preferences, liens, & equitable liens

Princpal & surety

Privacy, Right of

Process, Right of

Process, including abuse of

Product liability

Product liability

Product liability

Products liability

Prohibition, Writ of

Provents course

Public records, court proceedings

Public sale

Public utilities

Pure Food & Drug

Quasi contracts

Quieting title

Quo warrants

Radio

Railroad crossings

Railroads

Rapes

Ratification

Real propertty

Receivers

Receiving stolen property

Records, public

Reformations

Release

Religious corporations

Removal

Re-opening

Reorganizations

Replevin

Reputations & character

Recession

Sales

Sales in bankruptcy

Schools & school districts

Search & seizure

Secured creditors

Securities & Exchange Commission

Seduction

Selective Service

Self-defense

Self-incrimination

Sentence & judgement

Sentence & probation judgement

Sheriffs

Slot machines & lotteries

Social Security Act

States

Statutes

Staying state contract actions

Sterilizations

Streets & highways

Subrogation

Suicide

Sunday

Taxation

Taxation

Taxation

Taxation

Taxation

Telegraphs and telephones

Television

Tenants in common

Tender

Testamentary capacity

Texas and Fifth Circuit law

Texas -- Workman’s compensation

Three judge court

Treaties, trees, trusts & trustees

US claims

Vendor and purchasor

Venue

Verdicts

Veternarians

Wager claims

Wagering tax

Waiver

War

Warehousement

Water and watercourses

Waters

Will drafting under Iowa law

Witnesses

Words and phrases

Workmen's compensation

World War veterans

 Box 1

Allison, Jessie M. vs. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.

Amos, Mrs. John vs. Prom Inc.

Apel, Robert & Paul vs. George Walters

Bodnarchuk, William M. vs. Clarence J. Iserman and West Side Sales & Service Corp.

Brown, Mae vs. USA, James H. Brown, et al.

Carpenter, Richard vs. Iowa - Illinois Gas & Electric Co.

Carr, Jane vs. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Central Surety & Insurance Corporation vs. Freeman Contractors, Inc., et al.

Combs, Claude W. vs. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

Craven, Clara L. vs. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway System

Criminal Instructions (Conspiracy)

Elger, Carol E. vs. Minnie M. Guger

Darnell, Wallace vs. King's Crown Plaster Co.

De Maio, Nancy vs. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.

Ellis, Orville R. vs. E. J. Blane

Emery, William R. & Erma vs. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York vs. Sioux City Foundry & Boiler Co.

First Acceptance Corp. vs. Sam Kennedy

First National Bank vs. Bernard F. Atherton

Fulton, Gene A. vs. Frank Shaw

The Greyhound Corp. vs. Central Freight Lines Inc.

Hartman, Henry vs. Stanley Paul

Hennich, John vs. K.H. Randa

Hoyt, Mildred Marauison vs. Charles F. Clancey Jr.

Heuer, Orville F., et al. vs. New York Life Insurance Co.

Instructions:

Crime and Current, General

Crime, Tax Evasion

Instructions:

Eminent domain

General

In Lonshoreman Case, Southern Distrist of New York

Instructions:

Motor vehicle

Railroad crossings

Iowa uniform instructions

Jury

Jury instructions:

General

Aviation tortfeasors

Western Texas district

Jury instructions, Texas

Kebric, Harry L. vs. Florence Warner Kepford

Leslar, Earl W. vs. Henry Sanders

Kittleson, Ray vs. American District Telegraph Co.

Lamb, Louis C. vs. Wayland K. Hicks et al

Larson, Lewis and J. Alvin Larson vs. Eldon H. Collins

Laurens, Iowa, and Laurens Municipal Light and Power Plant vs. Grain Dealers National Mutual Fire Insurance Company et al

Louisiana jury instructions

Louisana law

Mc Donnel, Elsie vs. Jeanette Timmerman

Nevilier, Ann vs. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co.

The Oliver Corp. vs. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers

Palmer Fruit Company vs. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company

Rittgers, Genevieve vs. USA

Shugart, Mary vs. Eugene R. Wimmer

Smith, Robert W. vs. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

Sovern, H.A. and Walter O'Meara vs. Illinois Central Railroad Co.

Steffen,Norbert H. vs. Farmers Elevator Service Co.

Sunpuft Popcorn Corp. vs. Louis Seieroe

Taylor, Thomas vs. Myrtle Carlson

The Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Elmer Brandt

Vollmer, Helen Marie vs. Herman Harms

USA vs. 492.50 acres of land, more or less, situate in Ellis County, State of Texas, and Francis L. Harrison, et al.

USA vs. Asa Johnston

USA vs. Valentine John Karp

USA vs. Edmund Otis

USA vs. Vincente Leija Pena

USA vs. Strange Gros. Hide Co.

USA vs. Olice G. Taft

USA vs. Thomas Gordon Tinkle, Jr., et al

USA vs. 283.20 acres, more or less, situate in Ellis County, State of Texas, and John D. Kirven, et al

USA vs. Hubert A. Tyler

Urbain, James vs. Phillips Petroleum Co.

Wachter, Evelyn vs. Raymond A. Rovang

Wage and hour instructions

Waterman, Ruth Evelyn vs. St. Luke's Methodist Hospital

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