Royal A. Stone

Royal Augustus Stone (June 26, 1875 – September 13, 1942) was an American jurist.

Born in Le Sueur, Minnesota, Stone moved with his parents to Morris, Minnesota. He finished high school at the academy at Carleton College. Stone went to University of Minnesota. He then went to the Washington University School of Law and received his law degree in 1897. Stone was admitted to the Minnesota bar and practiced law in Morris, Minnesota in 1897. Stone was the attorney for Morris, Minnesota. Stone served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and World War II. From 1905 to 1907, Stone served as Minnesota assistant attorney general. He then practiced law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Stone served on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1923 until his death in 1942. Stone died in a hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota of a heart ailment only five days after he was renominated for reelection.^[1]^[2]

Notes

↑ Minnesota State Law Library-In Memoriam-Royal A. Stone
↑ 'Justice Royal A. Stone Of State Supreme Court Dies.' Albert Lea Evening Tribune, September 14, 1942, pg. 1, 2

Minnesota Supreme Court Justices

Territorial (1849–1858)	Goodrich Cooper Meeker Fuller Hayner Chatfield Sherburne Welch R. Nelson Flandrau

State (since 1858)	Flandrau Atwater Emmett T. Wilson McMillan Berry Gilfillan Ripley Young Cornell Mitchell Clark Dickinson Vanderburgh Collins Buck Canty Start C. Brown Lovely Lewis Douglas Jaggard Elliott O'Brien Simpson Bunn P. Brown Holt Hallam Schaller Quinn Dibell S. Wilson Stone Hilton Olsen Loring Devaney Olson H. Peterson H. Gallagher Streissguth Pirsig Youngdahl T. Gallagher Magney Matson W. Christianson F. Gallagher Knutson T. Christianson Dell M. Nelson Murphy Loevinger Otis Rogosheske Sheran C.D. Peterson F. Kelly Todd MacLaughlin Yetka Scott Wahl Amdahl Simonett G. Kelley Coyne Popovich Keith Tomljanovich Ogren Page P. Anderson Stringer Blatz Gilbert R. Anderson Ericksen Meyer Hanson G.B. Anderson Gildea Dietzen Magnuson Stras Wright Lillehaug Hudson Chutich McKeig

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