WEEKLY NOTES OF CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE COUNTY COURTS OF
PHILADELPHIA, AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
AND CIRCUIT COURTS FOR THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BY

MEMBERS OF THE BAR.

VOLUME XI.

DECEMBER, 1881, TO AUGUST, 1882.

PHILADELPHIA:

KAY & BROTHER, 17 AND 19 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
LAW PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND IMPORTERS.

1882.

51

REPORTERS.

Supreme Court (Eastern District).

MR. LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., assisted by Messrs. Francis J. Alison, John M. Gest, William Hunt, J. Percy Keating, Louis C. Massey, William M. Meigs, N. Dubois Miller, Robert H. Neilson, C. Berkeley Taylor, C. Tower, Jr., and James S. Williams.

upreme Court (Middle District).

THE EDITOR, assisted by Messrs. Fred. M. Ott and Paul Charlton (Harrisburg).

Supreme Court (Western District).

Messrs. J. T. MYLER, William R. Blair, Kennedy T. Friend, Oliver S. Richardson, and John C. Shumaker (Pittsburgh).

Courts of Common Pleas (Law and Equity).

C. P. No. 1. MR. WILLIAM WYNNE WISTER, JR., assisted by Messrs. Joseph P. Gross, Alfred Lee, Jr., Daniel Holsman, George S. Philler, Albert B. Roney, and John H. Westcott.

C. P. No. 2. HON. JAMES T. MITCHELL, assisted by Messrs. Robert II. Neilson, I. Tyson Morris, T. B. Stork, Thomas Robins, Jr., Francis Lincoln Wayland, and Charles Chauncey Binney.

C. P. No. 3. MR. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, assisted by Messrs. Harold Goodwin, Thos. W. Hoskinson, J. Bayard Henry, Charles Penrose Blight, Charles H. Sayre, Henry C. Boyer, and George Dallas Morrell.

C. P. No. 4. MR. HENRY BUDD, JR., assisted by Messrs. W. Herbert Washington, George R. Van Dusen, John M. Gest, Edward G. McCollin, Thos. A. Edwards, and William M. Stewart, Jr.

Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer.

MR. HENRY S. HAGERT, assisted by Messrs. Thomas W. Barlow and Louis Brégy.

Orphans' Court.

MR. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. William D. Neilson, Wm. Lyttleton Savage, Charles H. Townsend, Edward F. Hoffman, William C. Stover, and W. Herbert Washington.

u. S. Courts.

MR. FRANK P. PRICHARD, assisted by Messrs. J. Edward Ackley, Arthur Biddle, Williams Carter, Charles H. Howell, John J. Wilkinson, Richard S. Edwards, and C. Berkeley Taylor.

N. B. Admiralty Cases revised by MR. MORTON P. HENRY.

GENERAL EDITOR.

MR. ALBERT A. OUTERBRIDGE, 251 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia.

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