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| Title | Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 11 |
| Author | Iowa. Supreme Court |
| Publisher | E. W. Stephens, 1861 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2008 |
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