Cr. & J. - Crompton & Jervis' Exchequer Reports
Forming part of the English Reports, Volumes 148 to 149 (1830-1832).
Continued the Younge and Jervis - Y. & J. - series (1826 to 1832) and there was some overlap in coverage with the law report which succeeded Cromton & Jervis, that of Tyrwhitt (1830 to 1835).
Holdsworth wrote of Sir Charles John Crompton (1797-1865) in his History of the English Law:
"Crompton was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1821. As first tubman and then postman in the Court of Exchequer, and as counsel for the Board of Stamps and Taxes, he was well fitted to be the reporter of the decisions of that court.
"In 1851, he was appointed one of the commissioners to enquire into the practice of the Court of Chancery.
"He became a judge of the King's Bench in 1852."
According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Charles Crompton was:
"... reporter of exchequer decisions from 1830 to 1836 (first with Jervis, afterwards with Meeson and Roscoe....
"He died, on 30 Octocber, 1865."
REFERENCES:
- Holdsworth, William, A History of English Law, Vol. 13 (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1952), page 437
- Leslie, Stephen, Dictionary of National Biography, (New York: MacMillan and Co., 1888), volume 13.