Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Volume 66Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1880 - Law reports, digests, etc "With tables of the cases and principal matters" (varies). |
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