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 XXVII.

NOVEMBER, 1890, TO APRIL, 1891.

PHILADELPHIA:

KAY & BROTHER,

LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS.

1891.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by

KAY & BROTHER,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Rec. Nov. 1890 - Uhr, 1891

PHILADELPHIA: COLLINS PRINTING HOUSE, 706 Jayne Street.

REPORTERS.

Supreme Court.

MR. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. H. S. P. Nichols, William M. Stewart, Jr., Samuel Hinds Thomas, Charles K. Zug, and Robert H. Neilson.

Courts of Common Pleas.

C. P. No. 1. MR. WILLIAM WYNNE WISTER, JR., assisted by Messrs. Henry J. Hancock, William Wharton Smith, Francis Fisher Kane, Henry Wiener, Jr., and Horace L. Cheney.

C. P. No. 2. HON. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, assisted by Messrs. Albert B. Weimer, J. Campbell Lancaster, T. B. Stork, Joseph Whitaker Thompson, 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. William M. Stewart, Jr., Samuel Hinds Thomas, Edward P. Bliss, John P. Croasdale, and Francis Cope Adler.

Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer.

Mr. Thomas W. Barlow.

Orphans' Court.

MR. HENRY C. OLMSTED, assisted by Messrs. Wm. Lyttleton Savage, Edward F. Hoffman, William C. Stover, John Douglass Brown, Jr., William M. Stewart, Jr., and Charles K. Zug.

a. S. Courts.

MR. C. BERKELEY TAYLOR, assisted by Mr. Mark Wilks Collet.

N. B. Admiralty Cases revised by MR. MORTON P. HENRY.

GENERAL EDITOR.

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

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ERRATA.

Stephens v. GIFFORD, et al., p. 31, col. i. line 4, for "he" read "defendants.”

MAZET v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH, p. 73, line 2 of syllabus, for "relative" read "relevant."

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. Heister, p. 213. In the statement of facts, instead of "but no suit was brought until 1890," insert "pleas were filed October 12, 1885, but the cause was not put on trial until May 13, 1890. House of Refuge v. SMITH, p. 398, col. ii. line 5 from bottom, for "reorganizing” read “recognizing.”

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