AND REPORTER OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT.

VOLUME VI.

NEW-ORLEANS :

PRINTED BY GASTON BRUSLE.

PREFACE.

IN submitting the sixth volume of the Louisiana Reports to the profession and to the public, the REPORTER has but a remark to make in explanation. He came into office in the middle of this volume; commencing with the case of Baldwin vs. Thompson et als. at page 474, and which he has completed on the plan it was begun by his predecessor. He does not therefore consider himself responsible for the present volume. It has been brought out with as much despatch as possible, and contains all the adjudged cases to the present period, with the exception of four or five which were suspended on applications for a re-hearing. In this respect one of the leading objects of the legislature in the publication of the Reports of the cases decided by the Supreme Court has been strictly complied with: that of giving them early publicity. It has, and will continue to be, the constant aim of the Reporter to give a full and faithful statement and view of each case, with all the points and principles decided, carefully extracted and prefixed to it, in notes. In relation to the fulfilment of these objects with accuracy it must be remarked, that the cases were prepared and sent to the printer nearly as fast as they were delivered by the court; so that many errors and inelegancies of expression may have escaped attention, which if more time. had been allowed, would have been revised and corrected. But defects of this nature are more than compensated by a speedy publication. Whatever improvements in the manner which experience in the execution of the task of Reporting, may suggest, will hereafter be adopted to render the work as perfect as possible, and to enhance its general utility.

New-Orleans, July 31, 1834.