LAW JOURNAL REPORTS

FOR

THE YEAR 1880:

COMPRISING

REPORTS OF CASES

IN

The House of Lords and in the Privy Council,

IN

The Court of Appeal, the Court for Crown Cases Reserved,
and the Court of Bankruptcy;

AND IN

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

VIZ.

Chancery; Queen's Bench; Common Pleas; Exchequer;
Probate, Divorce and Admiralty, Divisions ;

And in other Divisional Courts.

MICHAELMAS, 1879, TO MICHAELMAS, 1880.

The Appellate Cases, in the House of Lords, and in the Court of Appeal, are with the Reports of Cases
in the Divisions and Courts from which the Appeals respectively come. These Cases form four distinct
Volumes, having separate Indexes of Subjects and Tables of Cases; viz., the Chancery Volume; the
Bankruptcy Volume; the Bench, Pleas and Exchequer Volume; and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty

Volume.

THE CASES RELATING TO THE POOR LAW, THE CRIMINAL LAW, AND OTHER SUBJECTS
CONNECTED WITH THE DUTIES AND OFFICE OF MAGISTRATES, ARE SEPARATELY ARRANGED,
AND FORM A DISTINCT VOLUME OF REPORTS, VIZ. THE MAGISTRATES' CASES.

CHIEFLY

THE PRIVY COUNCIL CASES HAVE THEIR OWN INDEX AND TABLE OF CASES, AND FORM A
DISTINCT VOLUME OF REPORTS.

THE REPORTS ARE EDITED BY

MONTAGU CHAMBERS, ESQ., ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL,
FREDERICK HOARE COLT, Esq.,

AND

JOHN GEORGE WITT, ESQ., BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

QUEEN'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS AND EXCHEQUER, VOL. XLIX.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE.

PUBLISHED BY EDWARD BRET INCE, 5, QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

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ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

Queen's Bench, Common Pleas & Exchequer Divisions

AND IN

Other Divisional Courts

OF THE

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE,

REPORTED BY

J. H. ETHERINGTON SMITH AND RICHARD HOLMDEN AMPHLETT—
Queen's Bench,

WILLIAM PATERSON AND GILBERT GEORGE KENNEDY-Common Pleas,

W. DECIMUS I. FOULKES AND FRANCIS PARKER-Exchequer,

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW;

AND ON APPEAL FROM THOSE DIVISIONS AND COURTS

IN

Her Majesty's Court of Appeal,

REPORTED BY

WILLIAM ROBERT COLLYER AND ROBERT BRUCE RUSSELL,

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW,

AND IN

The House of Lords,

REPORTED BY

LIONEL LANCELOT SHADWELL,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

MICHAELMAS, 1879, TO MICHAELMAS, 1880.