THE F. C. Smit PARISH WILL CASE, IN THE COURT OF APPEALS. THE STATEMENT OF FACTS, AND THE It is of the first importance to the Court, in its anxious search for the truth, in this as in all other cases, to ascertain the exact succession of events, without which every investigation is mere maze and confusion. In this case the inquiry is particularly difficult, because the witnesses were no less than eighty in number, and their testimony fills no less than three large volumes, of 800 pages each, taken without reference to the periods of time, so that material evidence bearing upon a single point will be found scattered in each of the three volumes. We have, therefore, concluded to present to the Court, as its best aid in reading |