431 REPORTS OF CASES/ ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, SITTING IN GENERAL TERM, FROM APRIL 19, 1886, TO JULY, 11, 1887. REPORTED BY FRANKLIN H. MACKEY. VOL. V. WASHINGTON, D. C.: LAW REPORTER PRINT, 503 E ST. N. W. 1887. 34 IN MEMORIAM. Since the publication of the fourth volume of these reports the minutes of the Court in General Term show the following proceedings and resolutions: DEATH OF CHIEF JUSTICE DAVID K. CARTTER April 16, 1887. The Court in General Term being in session April 17, 1887, Mr. Worthington, Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, announced to the court and bar the death of the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and suggested that the court take fitting action touching the matter; whereupon it was ORDERED, by the court in General Term, that in respect to the memory of our late colleague, the late distinguished chief justice, this court stand adjourned until Wednesday morning, the 20th instant, and that the portrait of Chief Justice Cartter, in this chamber, be draped in mourning. Adjourned to Wednesday April 20, 1887, at 10 a. m. At which date came Mr. A. S. Worthington, Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, in obedience to resolutions of a meeting of the Bar of the said District, and read to the court the proceedings thereof, had April 19, 1887, touching the decease, on the 16th day of April, inst., of David K. Cartter, chief justice of the said court; and the same being heard it is ordered that said proceedings be made of record by the clerk. RESOLUTIONS. In obedience to a custom of the American Bar, which we |