THE

AMERICAN REPORTS:

CONTAINING

ALL DECISIONS OF GENERAL INTEREST

DECIDED IN

THE COURTS OF LAST RESORT

OF THE

SEVERAL STATES,

WITH

NOTES AND REFERENCES

BY

ISAAO GRANT THOMPSON.

VOL. XX

CONTAINING ALL CASES OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING

REPORTS:
ALABAMA; 50 ALABAMA; 75 ILLINOIS; 76 ILLINOIS; 77 ILLINOIS;
78 ILLINOIS; 40 IOWA; 41 IOWA; 42 IOWA; 65 MAINE; 41 MARY.
LAND; 42 MARYLAND; 43 MARYLAND; 119 MASSACHU.
SETTS; 32 MICHIGAN; 33 MICHIGAN; 54 NEW HAMP-
SAIRE; 55 NEW HAMPSHIRE; 62 NEW YORK;
63 NEW YORK; 26 OHIO ST.; 5 OREGON;
9 VROOM; 6 WEST VIRGINIA; 38

WISCONSIN: 39 WISCONSIN.

SAN FRANCISCO:
BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY,
LAW PUBLISHERS AND Law BOOKSELLERS.

1877.

Fotored, according to act of Congresa, in the year elghteen bundred and seventy-seven

BY JOHN D. PARSONS, JR.
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WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY,
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ALBANY, N. Y.

SCHEDULE

OJ STATE REPORTS FROM WHICH CASES HAVE BEEN SELECTED

FOR THE AMERICAN REPORTS.

The volumes of State Reports are in parentheses, and the volumes of American Reports in heavy letter.

Alabama (44) 4; (45) 6; (46) 7; (47) 11; (48) 17, (49, 50) 20.
Arkansas (25) 4; (26) 7; (27) 11; (28) 18.
Bush (Ky.) (7) 3; (8) 8; (9) 15; (10) 19.
California (39) 2; (40) 6; (41, 42) 10; (43, 44, 45, 46) 18; (47, 48) 17;

(49, 50) 19.
Colorado (1) 9.
Connecticut (36) 4; (37, 38) 9; (39) 12; (40) 16; (41, 42) 19.
Florida (13) 7; (14) 14.
Georgia (40) 2; (41, 42) 5; (43, 44) 9; (45, 46) 12; (47, 48, 49, 50) 16.
Grattan (Ve) (20) 3; (21) 8; (22) 12; (23) 14; (24, 25) 18.
Heiskell (Tenn.) (1) 2; (2) 5; (3) 8; (4, 5) 13; (6, 7) 19.
Houston (Del.) (3) 11; (4) 15.
tilinois (51) 2; (52) 4; (53, 54) 5; (55, 56) 8; (57, 58) 11; (59, 60, 61,

62, 63) 14; (64, 65, 66, 67) 16; (68, 69) 18; 75, 76, 77, 78) 20.* Indiana (32) 2; (33) 5; (34) 7; (35) 9; (36, 37, 38) 10; (39, 40, 41, 42,

43) 13; (44, 45, 46) 15; (47, 48) 17; (49, 50, 51) 19. Iowa (27) 1; (28, 29) 4; (30) 6; (31, 32) 7; (33, 34) 11; (35, 36) 14; (87,

38, 39) 18; (40, 41, 42) 20. Kapsas (5, 6) 7; (7, 8, 9) 12; (10, 11, 12) 15; (13, 14) 19. Louisiana (22) 2; (23) 8; (24, 25) 13. Maine (57) 2; (58) 4; (59) 8; (60) 11; (61) 14; (62) 16; (63, 64) 18;

(65) 20. Maryland (31) 1; (32, 33) 3; (34, 35) 6; (36, 37) 11; (38, 39, 40) 17; (41,

42, 43) 20. Massachusetts (100) 1; (101, 102) 3; (103) 4; (104) 6; (105) 7; (106) 8,

(107) 9; (108) 11; (109) 12; (110) 14; (111, 115) 15; (112, 116) 17,

(113) 18; (114, 117, 118) 19; (119) 20. Michigan (19) 2; (20, 21) 4; (22) 7; (23, 24) 9; (25, 26) 12; (27, 28) 16;

(29, 30, 31) 18; (32, 33) 20.

• The biatus in tbe Illinois Reports arises from the fact that the volumos betwood the 69th and the 75tb bave not yet been published.