Justice Louis B. Ewbank
(Sixty-second Justice)

Justice Ewbank was born September 5, 1864, in Guilford, Indiana, and died March 6, 1953, in Guilford, Indiana.²¹⁶

He was educated in the Dearborn County Indiana schools and studied law in the offices of William Watson Woollen, beginning in 1891.²¹⁷

He practiced law in the firm of Hanan, Ewbank, & Hanan in Lagrange, Indiana from 1910 to 1912 and then moved to Indianapolis.²¹⁸ In 1914, he was elected Marion County Circuit Court Judge, a position he held until 1920 when Governor James P. Goodrich appointed him to the Indiana Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Harvey.²¹⁹ Justice Ewbank was subsequently elected for a six-year term, serving until January 1927.²²⁰ In 1927, he returned to private practice at Whitcomb, Ewbank, & Dowden.²²¹ In 1940, he entered a practice with his brother, Richard L. Ewbank.²²²

He served on the faculty of the old Indiana Law School from 1897 to 1914, and also lectured at the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington.²²³ He is noted for the following publications: Manual of Indiana Appellate Practice; Indiana Trial Practice; Indiana Criminal Law (which was known as “the prosecutor’s Bible”); Modern Business Corporations (co-author); and Indiana Cumulative Digest (editor from 1904-1914).²²⁴

Source: Browning, Minde C., Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices." Indiana Law Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, 1997. View this source in PDF format.