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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 III.

OCTOBER, 1876, TO MAY, 1877.

PHILADELPHIA:

KAY & BROTHER, 17 AND 19 SOUTH SIXTH STREET.
LAW PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND IMPORTERS.

1877.

REPORTERS.

Supreme Court (Eastern District).

MR. FRANK P. PRICHARD, assisted by Messrs. Francis J. Alison, W. W. Carr, Horace Castle, Richard C. Dale, Jr., James S. Fenton, Jr., George Harrison Fisher, Joseph de F. Junkin, Louis C. Massey, N. Dubois Miller, J. Rodman Paul, and John J. Wilkinson.

Supreme Court (Middle District).

MR. ROBERT SNODGRASS, Prot'y, MR. JOHN B. MCPHERSON and MR. GEORGE H. IRWIN (Harrisburg).

Supreme Court (Western District.)

Messrs. John E. Speer, S. C. Wells, and W. S. Wilson (Pittsburgh), and James S. Fenton, Jr., J. Rodman Paul, and Joseph de F. Junkin (Philadelphia).

Court of Common Pleas (Law and Equity).

C. P. No. 1. MR. WILLIAM WYNNE WISTER, JR., assisted by Messrs. Joseph P. Gross, J. L. Jones, Alfred Lee, Jr., John Horace Lind, and Walter E. Rex.

C. P. No. 2. HON. JAMES T. MITCHELL, assisted by Messrs. Alex. J. D. Dixon, Edward F. Hoffman, Charles B. McMichael, Robert H. Neilson, and James C. Sellers.

C. P. No. 3. MR. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, assisted by Messrs. Harold Goodwin, William Drayton, Abraham M. Beitler, Peter Boyd, and William H. Peterman.

C. P. No. 4. MR. HENRY BUDD, JR., assisted by Messrs. Albert B. Guilbert, Randal Morgan, T. Elliott Patterson, Henry Pleasants, Jr., and W. Herbert Washington.

Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer.

MR. HENRY S. HAGERT, Assistant District Attorney, assisted by Mr. T. Horace Tharp.

Orphans' Court.

MR. GEORGE TUCKER BISPHAM and MR. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. William D. Neilson, Wm. Lyttleton Savage, T. B. Stork, and Charles Townsend.

U.S. Courts.

MR. A. SYDNEY BIDDLE, assisted by Messrs. Arthur Biddle, Frank C. Fallon, and Charles H. Howell.

N. B. Admiralty Cases revised by MR. MORTON P. HENRY: Bankruptcy Cases by MR. SUSSEX D. DAVIS; and Patent Cases by MR. JOSEPH C. FRALEY.

Commonwealth Causes.

MR. LYMAN D. GILBERT, Asst. Attorney-General (Harrisburg).

GENERAL EDITOR.

MR. ALBERT A. OUTERBRIDGE, 707 Walnut Street.