WEEKLY NOTES OF CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE COUNTY COURTS OF
PHILADELPHIA, AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
AND CIRCUIT COURTS FOR THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BY

MEMBERS OF THE BAR.

VOLUME XV.

AUGUST, 1884, TO APRIL, 1885.

PHILADELPHIA:

KAY & BROTHER,

LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS.

1885.

Supreme Court Eastern District).

Ma Lawrence LEWIS, Jr., assisted by Messrs. Francis J. Alison, J. Douglass Brown, Jr., Els Ames Ballard, Charles T. Cresswell, Henry W. Hall, John H. Ingham, J. Percy Keating. Jin Houston Merrill, Walter Murphy, Harry L. Neall, Horace Pettit, Thomas Reath. D. Stuart Robinson, Charles C. Savage, Henry J. Scott, William M. Stewart, Jr., C. Berkeley Taylor, A. B. Weimer, and Charles K. Zug.

Supreme Court (Mlle District).

Messrs. Frol. M. Ott, Paul Charlton, and Percival C. Kauffman Harrisburg).

Supreme Court (Western District).

Messrs. Thomas W. Bakewell, William R. Blair, David Q. Ewing, George P. Hamilton, George A. Howe, George R. Lawrence, John D. McKennan, J. T. Myler, William S. Pier, William L. Pierce, W. R. Sewell, and J. M. Swearingen.

Courts of Common Pleas (Law and Equity).

C. P. No. 1. MR. WILLIAM WYNne Wister, Jr., assisted by Messrs. Joseph P. Gross Daniel Holsman, George S. Philler, John H. Westcott, Charles H. Bannard, Frederick M. Leonard, Eliis Ames Ballard, and Wilbur F. Spottswood.

C. P. No. 2. HON. JAMES T. MITCHELL, assisted by Messrs. Robert H. Neilson, I. Tyson Morris, T. B. Stork, Charles Chauncey Binney, John Douglass Brown, Jr., and Sydney G. Fisher.

C. P. No. 3. MR. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, assisted by Messrs. Andrew M. Beveridge, Harold Goodwin, Philippus W. Miller, Charles P. Sherman, Albert B. Weimer, Henry S. Pancoast, and John F. Lewis.

C. P. No. 4. MR. HENRY BUDD, assisted by Messrs. W. Herbert Washington, George R. Van Dusen, John M. Gest, Thos. A. Edwards, William M. Stewart, Jr., Samuel Hinds Thomas, and Edward P. Bliss.

Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer.

MR. HENRY S. HAGERT, assisted by Messrs. Thomas W. Barlow and Louis Brégy.

Orphans' Court.

MR. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. William D. Neilson, Wm. Lyttleton Savage, Charles H. Townsend, Edward F. Hoffinan, William C. Stæver, W. Herbert Washington, and John Douglass Brown, Jr.

U.S. Courts.

MR. ALBERT B. GUILBERT, assisted by Messrs. Arthur Biddle, C. M. Hough, John J. Wilkinson, Richard S. Edwards, C. Berkeley Taylor, Charles Chauncey Binney, George S. Philler, and Henry W. Watson.

N. B. Admiralty Cases revised by MR. MORTON P. Henry.

GENERAL EDITOR.

MR. ALBERT A. OUTERBRIDGE, 251 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia.

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