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# Adviser to Corporations. The business of the firm was confined mostly to railroad and other corporation suits. Mr. Gray's services were largely with corporations as adviser and counsel. He was receiver for the Memphis and Ei Paso Railroad and was opposed by Roscoe Conkling in the five year fight between the bondholders of the Atlantic and Great Western against the Erie, a famous case of its day. He had vast experience as a referee in will cases of importance. The result of the five year fight conducted by Mr. Gray for the Atlantic and Great Western bondholders was that he made arrangements by which the holders of the land grant bonds of that company, who were almost all French, were able to exchange their bonds for good Texas lands at the rate of about thirteen acres to $100 of bonds. In the litigation growing out of the failure of the Mechanics Bank of Newark he succeeded in the interests of banks in this city in opposing the compromise offered by the directors and in recovering par and 3 per cent. interest on his clients' claims, in which attempt none of the other banks succeeded. All of his life Judge Gray was a sturdy supporter of the principles of the Democratic party. He said of his own career, in reference to its political side: "My life has been so uneventful as to leave nothing particular to say. I never was a politician or a member of any organization."