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REPORTS OF CASES CY

DECIDED I THE

COURT OF APPEALS

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK

FROM AND INCLUDING DECISIONS OF OCTOBER 5 TO DECISIONS
OF DECEMBER 7, 1909.

WITH

NOTES, REFERENCES AND INDEX.

J. NEWTONIERO,

STATE REPORTER.

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VOLUME 196.

ALBANY

J. B. LYON COMPANY.

1910.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year nineteen hundred and ten, BY SAMUEL S. KOENIG, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,

In trust for the benefit of the People of the said State, in the office of the Librarian of

Congress, at Washington, D. C.

MAR 15 1910

JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS.

EDGAR M. CULLEN, CHIef Judge.

JOHN C. GRAY,

EDWARD T. BARTLETT,

ALBERT HAIGHT,

IRVING G. VANN,

WILLIAM E. WERNER,

WILLARD BARTLETT,

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.

FRANK H. HISCOCK,

EMORY A. CHASE,

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT SERVING AS ASSOCIATE JUDGES.*

* Designated by the Governor January 8, 1906, under section 7 of article VI of the Constitution, as amended in 1899.

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