National Reporter System.-State Series.

THE

ATLANTIC REPORTER,

VOLUME 47,

CONTAINING ALL THE REPORTED DECISIONS OF THE

Supreme Courts of MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, RHODE Island,
CONNECTICUT, and PENNSYLVANIA; Court of Errors and Appeals,
Court of Chancery, and Supreme and Prerogative Courts
of NEW JERSEY; Supreme Court, Court of Chancery,
Superior Court, Court of General Sessions, and
Court of Oyer and Terminer of Delaware;
and Court of Appeals of MARYLAND.

COPYRIGHT, 1901,

BY

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY.

ATLANTIC REPORTER, VOLUME 47.

JUDGES

COURTS REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THIS VOLUME.

CONNECTICUT-Supreme Court of Errors.

CHARLES B. ANDREWS, CHIEF JUSTICE.

DAVID TORRANCE.
SIMEON E. BALDWIN.

WILLIAM C. SPRUANCE.
IGNATIUS C. GRUBB.

OF THE

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.

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DELAWARE-Supreme Court.

JOHN R. NICHOLSON, CHANCELLOR.
CHARLES B. LORE, CHIEF JUSTICE.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.

JOHN P. BRISCOE.
A. HUNTER BOYD.
DAVID FOWLER.

Court of Chancery.

JOHN R. NICHOLSON, CHANCELLOR.

MAINE-Supreme Judicial Court.

ANDREW P. WISWELL, CHIEF JUSTICE.

LUCILIUS A. EMERY.
THOMAS H. HASKELL1
WM. PENN WHITEHOUSE.

1 Deceased September 24, 1900.

WILLIAM HAMERSLEY.
FREDERICK B. HALL.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.

JAMES PENNEWILL
WILLIAM H. BOYCE.

FREDERICK A. POWERS.

MARYLAND-Court of Appeals.

JAMES MCSHERRY, CHief Judge.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.

WILLIAM M. CHASE.
ROBERT M. WALLACE.
FRANK N. PARSONS.

SEWALL C. STROUT.
ALBERT R. SAVAGE.
WM. H. FOGLER.

I. THOMAS JONES.

NEW HAMPSHIRE-Supreme Court.

ISAAC N. BLODGETT, CHIEF JUSTICE.

HENRY PAGE.

JAMES A. PEARCE.
SAMUEL D. SCHMUCKER.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.

ROBERT G. PIKE.
ROBERT J. PEASLEE
JOHN E. YOUNG.