Story

(sto're.) [From A. S. stær.] (Building.) A set of apartments on the same floor ofa house or other building. Story-posts are upright pieces of timber used in supporting the superincumbent part of the exterior wall of the story of a building by means of a beam over them. Sto'ry, in low a, a central co.; area, 576 sq. m.; C. Nevada. Pop. 11,662. Sto'ry, JOSEPH, a distinguished American jurist, B. at Marble head, Ma ., 1779, graduated at Harvard Coll. in 1798, and after being called to the bar rapidly rose to eminence as a special pleader. In 1809 he entered Congre , and in 1811 became one of the justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. As a jurist, and an exponent of international law, Judge S. stands in the front rank not only in his own country, but also in Europe. D. 1845. His published works embrace the masterly Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws; Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence; A Treatise on the Law of Agency, . Stoughton, (sto'tun,) in Ma achusetts, a town of Norfolk co.,19 m. S.W. of Boston. Pop. 4,914. [s. 859]