LAW JOURNAL REPORTS, CONTAINING CASES DECIDED BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA. ORIGINALLY REPORTED IN THE PENNSYLVANIA LAW JOURNAL AND ARRANGED AND COLLATED WITH REFERENCE TO CASES IN SUBSEQUENT REPORTS, BY JOHN A. CLARK. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA: JOHN CAMPBELL & SON, LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS, No. 740 SANSOM STREET. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by JOHN CAMPBELL & SON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. rec. Oct. 6, 1875 HENRY B. ASHMEAD, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, 1102 & 1104 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. PREFACE. THE publication of the Pennsylvania Law Journal commenced in the year 1842, and was continued until the end of the year 1848. It contained reports of a variety of most interesting and important decisions under the Bankrupt Law of 1841, and of cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and in the County Courts throughout the State, including the Courts of the City and County of Philadelphia. Among the various decisions reported will be found many delivered by the President Judges of County Courts, who were subsequently elevated to the supreme bench. Very many of the adjudications contained in these volumes have been and still are recognised as settling in our State important points of practice and principles of law. Owing to the great scarcity of these volumes, and their high price, they have become inaccessible to a great portion of the legal profession. With a view of supplying this much increasing want, the present publication is issued, entitled the "Pennsylvania Law Journal Reports," in which are incorporated all the cases of any value, not contained in other reports. The editor will add in sub |