AMERICAN CASES ON CONTRACT ARRANGED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANALYSIS OF ANSON ON CONTRACT AND EDITED BY ERNEST W. HUFFCUT OF THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND EDWIN H. WOODRUFF OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY NEW YORK AND ALBANY BANKS & BROTHERS, LAW PUBLISHERS PREFACE. THIS volume is the outcome of a need experienced in the classes of a professional law school on the one hand, and the undergraduate classes of a university on the other. It is an additional proof of the value of law as a culture study, as well as a professional study, that the editors have encountered no difficulty in uniting in a selection of cases equally suited to both purposes. The admirable analysis by Sir William Anson in his "Principles of the English Law of Contract" has been followed in the arrangement of the cases. That work, prepared originally for undergraduate study at Oxford, has been found highly valuable in the professional schools of this country, and is everywhere recognized as a masterly exposition of the subject. It is believed, however, that the cases will be found equally well adapted for use with any of the elementary treatises, or in connection with lectures, or without either text or lectures. The selection is confined to American cases because the limits of a single volume did not admit of an adequate representation of both English and American decisions, and because excellent collections of English cases are already available. It is believed, moreover, that the decis ions of the Federal courts, and the courts of the various States, now afford for the American law student a sufficient number of illustrative cases that are adequate in content, and that possess the additional value of being stated in |