This is a Key-Numbered Volume KEY NUMBER SYSTEM Each syllabus paragraph in this volume is marked with the topic and Key-Number section under which the point will eventually appear in the American Digest System. The lawyer is led from that syllabus to the exact place in the Digest where we, as digest makers, have placed the other cases on the same point.-This is the Key-Number Annotation VOLUME 5 CONTAINING THE DECISIONS OF THE DISTRICT The Index-Digest at the end of this volume contains a complete di- gest of all the Alaska decisions, both original and appellate, found in this volume, as well as those in the Federal Reporter from volume 210 to volume 245, both included, and in the United States Reports from volume 235 to volume 244, both included, and in the Supreme Court Reporter from volume 35 to volume 37, and covering the PREFACE SINCE the fourth volume of the Alaska Reports was printed the editor has learned that in 1888 Hon. Lafayette Dawson, former Judge of the District Court of Alaska, arranged and caused to be printed in the Republican office at Marysville, Missouri, a pamphlet edition of the decisions rendered by him while on the Alaska bench. This small volume of 88 pages was arranged and edited by Henry E. Haydon, Esq., the clerk and reporter of the court under Judge Dawson. The pamphlet is rare, but one copy being known, and it is found in the Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. Four of the Dawson opinions in Haydon's "Alaskan Reports-Vol. I," are to be found reprinted in volumes 29 and 31, Federal Reporter; three of them are reprinted on the first pages of Alaska Reports, I, Wickersham; and the other four are reprinted on the first pages of this fifth volume of the Alaska Reports. This volume brings the published opinions of the District Judges of Alaska Territory down to January 1, 1918, and covers the period from January 1, 1914, to December 31, 1917-four years. The index-digest which follows the opinions includes the digest of all cases in this volume, and all appealed cases in the Federal Reporter from volume 210 to volume 245, both inclusive, and those in the United States Supreme Court Reports, volumes 235 to 244, both inclusive, and in volumes 35 to 37, Supreme Court Reporter. Each syllabus paragraph has been key-numbered to the American Digest system. The key-number plan commences with the first Decennial edition and extends through the second Decennial edition, and the Key-Number Series. The keynumbers in the Decennial edition contain a reference to the Century edition. Whenever you find a case in point in this volume, turn to the same topic and key-number section in the Digest system for all other state and federal cases. JAMES WICKERSHAM. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 28, 1918. (v) |