Ernest Wilson Huffcut

Ernest Wilson Huffcut (1860-1907) was an American lawyer and educator, born in Kent, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University in 1884 and from Cornell Law School in 1888, then practiced law at Minneapolis, Mn., in 1888-90, served as professor of law at Indiana University in 1890-92, and thereafter was dean of Cornell Law School. Governor Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, at the beginning of his first term (1907), appointed Huffcut his legal adviser. Supposedly the result of a breakdown due to overwork, Huffcut committed suicide. He was considered by his associates a man of very great ability. He published:
* "American Cases on Contracts" (1884; third revised edition, 1913) with E. H. Woodruff
* "Cases on the Law of Agency" (1896; second edition, 1907)
* "Elements of Business Law" (1905)