SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM DECISIONS OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. WITH NOTES WITH AN ANALYTICAL INDEX TO ALL POINTS OF LAW AND PRACTICE CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. VOL. II. NEW-YORK: SUCCESSORS TO 1878. SOLEN - 5 FEB 1963 BRAR Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, By WARD & PELOUBET, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. ERRATA. Page 361. The following should have been named as counsel in Keiley o. Dusenbury: Charles Blandy (Hall & Blandy, attorneys), for the motion. Page 365. The following should have been named as counsel in Barthet o. Elias: Sigismund Kaufmann and R. B. Tunstall (Kaufmann, Tunstall & Wagner, attorneys), for plaintiff. Edgar A. Turrell, for defendants. Page 383. The following should have been named as counsel in the Matter of Backer: W. B. Putney, for Abraham Backer. G. A. Seixas and Thomas Allison, for Nathan & Co. and A. Hoffnung. CONTENTS. JOSEPITILAL 0. HEYMAN...... Attorney and client: Examin- FOSTER 0. TOWNSTEND...... 29ļ ation of parties, &c., § 399: 1 Vendor and purchaser. Incum- PEOPLE 0. HALLENBECK...... 66 Indictment for obscene writing. GFROEHNER 0. MCCARTY..... 76 Bills and notes. Pleading. DRAPER v. CIIASE M'F'G Co.. 79 ) | Asssessments for local improve- RICHARDS 0. RICHARDS..... 93 ) DARLING 0, HALSEY......... 105 PINKERNELLI v. BiscuiOFF.... 107 HOFGESANG 0. MEYER....... 111) GAUIN 0. MILLS......... 114 Mechanics' lien. MASON 0. LIBBEY............ 137 Examination and discovery be- |