ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. REPORTED BY WILLIAM B. WOODS, THE CIRCUIT JUDGE. VOL. ILGAME CHICAGO: CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY, LAW BOOK PUBLISHERS. 1876. 12509 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, BY CALLAGHAN & CO., in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ATWOOD & CULVER, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS, MADISON, WISCONSIN. JUDGES R OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. HON. JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, CIRCUIT JUSTICE, HON. WILLIAM B. WOODS, CIRCUIT Judge. DISTRICT JUDGES: HON. JOHN ERSKINE, DISTRICTS Of Georgia. HON. JAMES W. LOCKE, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. HON. JOHN BRUCE, DISTRICTS OF ALABAMA. HON. ROBERT A. HILL, DISTRICTS OF MISSISSIPPI. HON. EDWARD COKE BILLINGS, DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. HON. AMOS MORRILL, EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. HON. THOMAS H. DUVAL, WESTERN DISTRICT OF Texas. NOTE.-The office of United States District Judge for the Northern District of Florida became vacant on July 26, 1876, on the death of Hon. PHILIP FRASER. TABLE OF CASES REPORTED. A. Brown & Co., Ellery, Wendt & Co. v..... Adolph Joseph, In re ... Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Co., Receivers of, Dav ... enport v. Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Co., Stanton et al., Trustees, v. 156 213 571 390 .... 519 506 Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Co., Stanton et al., 523 Ames, Trustee, v. The New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad Co.... 206 Anderson, Executor, McKenzie v.. 357 Anderson v. The Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad Co... 628 A. & R. Strain v. Gourdin, Assignee 380 Atlanta & Richmond Air Line Railway Co., Wilmer v.. 409 Atlanta & Richmond Air Line Railway Co., Wilmer v.. 447 A. T. Stewart & Co., Sonneborn v. 599 |