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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 IX.

AUGUST, 1880, TO APRIL, 1881.

PHILADELPHIA:

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

1881.

REPORTERS.

Supreme Court (Eastern District).

MR. RICHARD C. DALE, assisted by Messrs. Francis J. Alison, George Harrison Fisher, William Hunt, J. Percy Keating, Lawrence Lewis, Jr., William M. Meigs, N. Dubois Miller, Robert H. Neilson, W. Herbert Washington, James S. Williams, and C. Tower, Jr.

Supreme Court (Middle District).

MR. M. W. JACOBS, assisted by Messrs. Fred. M. Ott, John S. Allenian, Charles M. Fleming, George W. Heck, William B. Lamberton, J. H. Shopp, and Percival C. Kauffman (Harrisburg).

Supreme Court (Western District).

Messrs. JOHN B. HERRON, JR., Alex. C. Crawford, J. T. Myler, William Scott, A. Tausig, William R. Blair, Kennedy T. Friend, William N. Frew, and Oliver S. Richardson (Pittsburgh), and Lawrence Lewis, Jr. (Philadelphia).

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., James S. Williams, Dwight M. Lowrey, Daniel Holsman, and Joseph F. Lamorelle.

C. P. No. 2. HON. JAMES T. MITCHELL, assisted by Messrs. Robert H. Neilson, Benjamin H. Lowry, I. Tyson Morris, T. B. Stork, Upton H. White, and Thomas Robins, Jr.

C. P. No. 3. MR. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, assisted by Messrs. Harold Goodwin, Thos. W. Hoskinson, J. Percy Keating, William M. Meigs, J. Bayard Henry, Francis A. Lewis, Jr., and Walter L. C. Biddle.

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

Quarter Sessions and Oper and Terminer.

MR. HENRY S. HAGERT, assisted by Mr. Thomas W. Barlow.

Orphans' Court.

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

A. 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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