Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors

From 1784 until 1965, the highest court in Connecticut was known as the Supreme Court of Errors. The earliest known published reference to the Supreme Court of Errors was found in the Connecticut Courant newspaper (later to become The Hartford Courant). The 1784 article references an order issued on the 16th day of September, A.D. 1784.

"At a Session of the Supreme Court of Errors, for

    the State of Connecticut, at Hartford, on the 16th

    day of September, A.D. 1784.

ORDERED, That the Supreme Court of Errors,

appointed by the laws of this State, to be holden

at New Haven, on teh first Tuesday of October

next, be adjourned to the third Tuesday of the

same month. And the Sheriff of the County of

New-Haven, is hereby commanded and directed,

on the said first Tuesday of October (at ten of the

clock in the forenoon) to repair to the State House

in New-Haven aforesaid, and by due proclamation,

to adjourn said Court to the third Tuesday of

October aforesaid, that all persons and parties con-

cerned in said Court, may take notice thereof and

give their attendance accordingly.

           A true copy of Record, examined, by
                           GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec'ry.

  N. B. The Printers of the several news papers in

this state, are requested seasonably to insert the

above order, in their respective papers for public

notice.

Yale College (left) & State House (right), New Haven, Connecticut (circa 1834)