THE

INCORPORATED COUNCIL OF LAW REPORTING

FOR

ENGLAND AND WALES.

Members of the Council.

Chairman-THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD DAVEY.
Vice-Chairman-MONTAGUE CRACKANTHORPE, Esq., Q.C.

WILLIAM GODDEN, Esq., President of the Incorporated Law Society.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Esq. (Firm-Messrs. Currie,
Williams & Williams), Lincoln's Inn Fields.
JOHN HOLLAMS, Esq. (Firm-Messrs. Hollams, Sons,
Coward & Hawksley), London Commercial Sale
Rooms, Mincing Lane, E.C.

Incorporated
Law Society.

Secretary-JAMES THOMAS HOPWOOD, Esq., 10 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.

THE

LAW REPORTS

OF THE INCORPORATED COUNCIL OF LAW REPORTING.

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

AND ON APPEAL THEREFROM IN THE

COURT OF APPEAL,

DECISIONS ON

CROWN CASES RESERVED

AND DECISIONS OF THE

RAILWAY AND CANAL COMMISSION.

EDITOR-SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., Barrister-at-Law.
ASSISTANT EDITOR-A. P. STONE, Barrister-at-Law.

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JUDGES

OF

THE COURT OF APPEAL.

1897.

Lord HALSBURY, Lord Chancellor.

Lord RUSSELL of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England.

Lord ESHER, Master of the Rolls.

Sir FRANCIS HENRY JEUNE, President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division.

Sir NATHANIEL Lindley,

Sir HENRY CHARLES LOPES, (afterwards LORD LUDLOW)

Sir ARCHIBALD LEVIN SMITH,

Sir JOHN RIGBY,

Sir J. W. CHITTY,

Lords Justices of

the Court of

Appeal.