THE

AMERICAN STATE REPORTS,

CONTAINING TIB

CASES OF GENERAL VALUE AND AUTHORITY

SUBSEQUENT TO THOSE CONTAINED IN THE "AMERICAN
DECISIONS" AND THE "AMERICAN REPORTS,"

DECIDED IN THE

COURTS OF LAST RESORT

OF THE SEVERAL STATES

SELECTED, REPORTED, AND ANNOTATED

BY A. C. FREEMAN,

AND THE ASSOCIATE EDITORS OF THE "AMERICAN DECISIONS.”

VOL. LIL

SAN FRANCISCO:
BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY.

LAW PUBLISHERS AND LAW BOOKSELLERS,

1897.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1897,

BY BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

SAN FRANCISCO:
THE FILMER-ROLLINS ELECTROTYPE COMPANT,
TYPOGRAPHERS AND STEREOTYPERS,

AMERICAN STATE REPORTS.

VOL. LII.

SCHEDULE

showing the original volumes of reports in which the cases herein selected and re-reported may be found, and the pages of this volume devoted to each state.