ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE COUNTY COURTS OF
PHILADELPHIA, AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
AND CIRCUIT COURTS FOR THE EASTERN

DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BY

MEMBERS OF THE BAR.

VOLUME XXIV.

MAY TO NOVEMBER, 1889.

PHILADELPHIA :
KAY & BROTHER,
LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS.

1889.

REPORTERS.

Supreme Court.
MR. LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., and MR. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. II. S. P.

Nichols, William M. Stewart, Jr., Samuel Hinds Thomas, and Charles K. Zug.

Courts of Common Pleas..
C. P. No. 1. MR. WILLIAM WYNNE WISTER, Jr., assisted by Messrs. George S. Philler,

Henry J. Hancock, William Wharton Smith, and William G. Thomson.
C. P. No. 2. Hon. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, assisted by Messrs. Albert B. Weimer,

J. Campbell Lancaster, Charles Chauncey Binney, T. B. Stork, Joseph Whitaker Thomp- son, and William W. Smithers. C. P. No. 3. Hon. JAMES T. MITCHELL, assisted by Messrs. Robert H. Neilson, I. Tyson

Morris, John F. Lewis, Henry R. Hatfield, and Russell T. Boswell.
C. P. No. 4. MR. Henry Budd, assisted by Messrs. George R. Van Dusen, William M.

Stewart, Jr., Samuel Hinds Thomas, Edward P. Bliss, Charles T. Cresswell, John P..
Croasdale, and Francis Cope Adler.

Quarter Sessions and Over and Terminer.

Messrs. Thomas W. Barlow and Louis Brégy.

Orphans' Court.
Mr. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. Wm. Lyttleton Savage, Edward F. Hoffman,

William C. Stæver, John Douglass Brown, Jr., William M. Stewart, Jr., and Charles K.

U. S. Courts.
Mr. C. BERKELEY TAYLOR, assisted by Messrs. John J. Wilkinson, Henry W. Watson,

Charles Chauncey Binney, George S. Philler, and Mark Wilks Collet.
N. B. Admiralty Cases revised by Mr. MORTON P. Henry.

GENERAL EDITOR.

MR. ALBERT A. OUTERERIDGE, 608 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.