OF

AMERICAN COMMON LAW CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE COURTS OF

THE SEVERAL STATES, AND THE UNITED STATES COURTS,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME;

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED;

WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES

TO THE

STATUTES OF EACH STATE AND ANALOGOUS
ADJUDICATIONS.

COMPRISING UNDER THE SEVERAL TITLES

A PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE

COMMON LAW.

BY J. D. WHEELER, ESQ.

COUNSELLOR AT LAW.

VOLUME IV.

NEW YORK:

TREADWAY & ATWOOD.

1835.

ENTERED according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, by TREADWAY & ATWOOD, in the clerk's office of the district court of the Northern District of New York.