REPORTS OF CASES DECIDED IN THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT AND COUNTY COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA. WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES. BY WILLIAM A. WILCOX. ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN WEEKLY PARTS AS SCRANTON, PA.: PREFACE. A change in the order of court which designated THE COMMON PLEAS REPORTER as the legal journal for the publication of legal notices in Lackawanna County has necessitated a discontinuance of that periodical. The result is a smaller volume of these reports than was intended. The editor acknowledges his obligations to the following named gentlemen of the bar for assistance in cases from their respective counties: Robert R. Little, Bloomsburg; Henry Maltzberger, Reading; Wm. J. Baldy, Danville; Hon. Steuben Jenkins, Wyoming: Clarence A. Little and Henry Harding, Tunkhannock; O. L. Rowland, Honesdale, and Ellery P. Ingham, LaPorte. Also to Judges Archbald, of Lackawanna County and Seeley, of Wayne County. The following complete bibliography of the legal periodicals of Luzerne and Lackawanna counties is inserted here, in the belief that it will be found useful. I. LUZERNE LEGAL OBSERVER.-E. S. M. Hill, editor and publisher, Scranton. 4 vols., folio, 1860–63. The first number was issued October 31, 1860. The title page of Vol. 1, bears the imprint: "Printed by S. S. Benedict, Advance Office, Carbondale. Pa.," but the weekly numbers are all dated Scranton. Volume 4 was never completed and but few copies of it are in existence. The copy of this volume in the library of the late Hon. F. C. Brightly, Philadelphia, which copy is supposed to be complete, consists of pages 1 to 112 inclusive and 209 to 232 inclusive, the intervening break being supposed to be numbers containing advertising matter only. 727602 2. LUZERNE LAW JOURNAL.-A. H. Winton, editor, Scranton. One number only was issued. Its date is November 17, 1871, and it contains two cases: Commonwealth vs. Boos, and Benjamin's Estate. The former may be found in 1 Luz. Leg. Reg., 374 and the latter Ibid, 375. 3. LUZERNE Legal RegistER.-George B. Kulp, editor and publisher, Wilkes-Barre, 14 vols. 8vo. 1872–86. See also Luzerne Legal Register Reports. 4. LUZERNE LEGAL REGISTER REPORTS.-By George B. Kulp. Cited also as KULP'S REPORTS. Four volumes have been completed. The first three are a re-publication of the cases in volumes 9 to 14 of Luzerne Legal Register. The fourth volume is the Register from April 23, 1886 to May 1, 1889. A fifth volume is being issued. 5. LAW TIMES. OLD SERIES.-Aaron Augustus Chase, editor, Scranton. Six volumes in two, 1873-78. ten. The first weekly number was issued October 31, 1873, as THE SCRANTON LAW TIMES. Size of page, six inches by November 27, 1874 the name was changed to Law TIMES. The first three volumes contain fifty-two numbers each, and 364, 202, and 110 pp. respectively. These four volumes are bound together, with one table of cases and index. Volumes V and VI, beginning January 1, 1877, were issued as LUZERNE LAW TIMES, with a shorter page, and have 120 and 93 pp. respectively. They are bound together, with one table of cases and index. 6. LAW TIMES. NEW SERIES.-Aaron Augustus Chase, editor, Scranton. Seven volumes in six, 1879-85. Vol. VII has but 40 pp. and is included with Vol. VI in one table of cases and index. 7. LACKAWANNA BAR.-Edward Merrifield, editor, F. A. Beamish, publisher, Scranton. Nine weekly numbers only, August 31 to October 26, 1878. No index. The cases are all reported elsewhere. 8. LACKAWANNA LEGAL RECORD.-Edited by I. H. Burns, assisted by D. W. Connolly, Lemuel Amerman and R. W. Archbald, Scranton. One volume. 8vo. September 1878 to August 1879. Issued weekly. In last number mention is made of a second volume but no part of it was ever issued. The COMMON PLEAS REPORTER took its place. Four vol 9. COMMON PLEAS REPORTER.-Scranton. umes. 8 vo. 1879-87. Weekly. Volume I, (1879-80) was edited by I. H. Burns and Arthur C. Logan, assisted by W. H. Lee, H. C. Jessup, J. H. and J. W. Codding, J. Wood Piatt, and Geo. E. Elwell. Vol. II. (1885-6) and Vol. III (1886-7) were edited by Arthur L. Baker. Vol. IV, (1887) by Arthur L. Baker and Wm. A. Wilcox. During 1886 and parts of 1885 and 1887 Mr. Baker published in connection with the REPORTER, BAKER'S WEEKLY DIGEST of all Pennsylvania cases of the preceeding week, each number an index to all preceeding ones. The whole re-arranged and re-printed at the end of the year as "BAKER'S ANNUAL DIGEST." There was no issue of the REPORTER from the close of Volume I (February 6, 1880) to February 13, 1885, when the first number of Volume II was issued. IO. WILCOX'S REPORTS.-One volume. 8vo. The law cases in COMMON PLEAS REPORTER from January 1, 1888, to March 1889, were printed so as to be bound and cited as Wilcox's Reports. II. THE LACKAWANNA JURIST AND LAW MAGAZINE.— Frank J. Fitzsimmons, Editor. Started December 14, 1888. When five weekly numbers, containing forty pages, had been issued a new numbering was begun with star paging which paging was continued through six numbers having 36 pages. The first volume is not yet completed. Scranton, Pa., April, 1889. |