REPORTS ΟΙ Cases in Law and Equity, DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA BY GEORGE GREENE, VOL. I. CHICAGO: CALLAGHAN & COCKCROFT, PUBLISHERS, 80 Dearborn Street. Entered according to act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty nine BY GEORGE GREENE, in the clerk's off of he district court of the United States in and for the district of Iowa. LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERN J. P. Jones & Co., Stereotypers, 183 William st., N. York. PREFACE. It is hoped the present volume may prove acceptable to the legal profession and the public. Owing to an unavoidable press of other duties, the contemplated arrangement of the work has not been fully carried out. If approved by the profession, arguments of counsel, in a condensed form, will generally accompany the cases in subsequent volumes. Members of the bar will greatly encourage this arrangement by submitting their points and references to the court in writing. It will be an especial object to preserve the work from everything like superfluity. By arrangement of the court, a brief but sufficient statement of each case will be given in the opinion. This, it will be seen, has been done in most of the opinions reported in this volume. A few cases decided in 1848, and not forwarded in time for this volume, will appear in the next. DECEMBER, 1849. |