OF CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY, DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA. BY THO. F. WITHROW, REPORTER. VOL. XII, BEING VOLUME XX OF THE SERIES. DES MOINES: MILLS & COMPANY, LAW PUBLISHERS. 1880. LA4214 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, BY THO. F. WITHROW, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, and for the District of Iowa. MILLS & COMPANY, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS, DES MOINES, IOWA. OFFICERS OF THE SUPREME COURT. JUDGES. HON. RALPH P. LOWE, Keokuk, Chief Justice. 66 JOHN F. DILLON, Davenport, 44 CHESTER C. COLE, Des Moines, 66 GEORGE G. WRIGHT, Keosauqua, CLERK, LEWIS KINSEY, Des Moines. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Justices. FREDERICK E. BISSELL, Dubuque. REPORTER, THO. F. WITHROW, Des Moines. 44215. JUDGES OF THE DISTRICT COURT. 1ST DISTRICT-FRANCIS SPRINGER. 2D DISTRICT-HENRY HOFFMAN TRIMBLE. 4TH DISTRICT-ISAAC PENDLETON. 5TH DISTRICT-JOHN H. GRAY.' CHARLES C. NOURSE.' 6TH DISTRICT-WILLIAM LOUGHRIDGE. 8TH DISTRICT-W. J. CONKLING." N. M. HUBBARD." 9TH DISTRICT-JAMES BURT. 10TH DISTRICT-ELIAS H. WLLIAMS. 11TH DISTRICT-JOHN PORTER.' D. D. CHASE. 12TH DISTRICT-WILLIAM B. FAIRFIELD. 'Hon. JOHN H. GRAY died in October, 1865, and Hon. CHARLES C. NOURSE was, on the 16th of said month, appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy. 'Hon. W. J. CONKLIN resigned November 15, 1865, and Hon. N. M. HUBBARD was appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy. 8 Hon. JOHN PORTER resigned in January, 1866, and Hon. D. D. CHASE was appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy. |