LAW TIMES REPORTS.

A COLLECTION OF

LEADING CASES DECIDED IN THE COURTS OF THE
UNITED STATES, AND COURTS OF LAST

RESORT OF THE SEVERAL

STATES.

TOGETHER WITH

A DIGEST OF CASES OF VALUE REPORTED IN AMERICAN
LEGAL PERIODICALS DURING THE YEAR 1876.

EDITED BY

ROWLAND COX.

"It is impoffible but in process of time, as well from the nature of things chang
ing, as corruption of agents, abufes will grow up: for which reafon, the law muft
be kept as a garden, with frequent digging, weeding, turning, &c. That which in
one age was convenient, and perhaps neceffary, in another becomes an intolerable
nuisance." - ROGER NORTH.

NEW SERIES.-VOLUME III.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.

BOSTON: H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press.

1876.

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