Early Life and Legal Career
Crater was born on January 5, 1889, in Easton, Pennsylvania, the eldest of four children born to Frank Ellsworth Crater and the former Leila Virginia Montague. He was educated at Lafayette College (class of 1910) and Columbia University.
He was an Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court for New York County. He had been appointed to the state bench by then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt just four months before disappearing on August 6, 1930. He issued two published opinions; the first, Rotkowitz v. Sohn, involved fraudulent conveyances and mortgage foreclosure fraud. The second, Henderson v. Park Central Motors Service, dealt with a garage company's liability for an expensive car stolen and wrecked by an ex-convict.
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