Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 46Michigan. Supreme Court, George C. Gibbs, Randolph Manning, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, Hovey K. Clarke, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, James M. Reasoner, Marquis B. Eaton, Richard W. Cooper, Herschel Bouton Lazell Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1882 |
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