National Reporter System.-State Series.

THE

SOUTHERN REPORTER,

(ANNOTATED),

VOLUME 49,

CONTAINING ALL THE DECISIONS OF THE

SUPREME COURTS OF ALABAMA, FLORIDA,

LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI.

PERMANENT EDITION.

MAY 15-JULY 31, 1909.

WITH ALPHABETICAL AND NUMERICAL TABLES OF SOUTHERN CASES PUBLISHED IN

VOLS. 153, 154, ALABAMA REPORTS.

A TABLE OF STATUTES CONSTRUED IS GIVEN

IN THE INDEX.

ST. PAUL:
WEST PUBLISHING CO.

Law Libre

COPYRIGHT, 1909,

BY

TEST PUBLISHING COMPANY.

(49 SO.)

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JUDGES

OF THE

COURTS REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THIS VOLUME.

ALABAMA-Supreme Court.

JOHN R. TYSON, CHIEF JUSTICE.1
JAMES R. DOWDELL, CHIEF JUSTICE. 2

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
JONATHAN HARALSON.3

N. D. DENSON.
JAMES R. DOWDELL.2

THOMAS C. MCCLELLAN.
R. T. SIMPSON.

JAMES J. MAYFIELD,4
JOHN C. ANDERSON.

A. D. SAYRE.5

FLORIDA-Supreme Court.

Division A.
THOMAS M. SHACKLEFORD, CHIEF JUSTICE.

JAMES B. WHITFIELD, CHIEF JUSTICE.?

JUSTICES.
THOMAS M. SHACKLEFORD.6 ROBERT S. COCKRELL.

JAMES B. WHITFIELD.7

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS.

OLIVIER 0. PROVOSTY.
FRANK A. MONROE.

ALFRED D. LAND.

MISSISSIPPI—Supreme Court.

ALBERT H. WHITFIELD, CHEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
ROBERT B. MAYES.

SYDNEY M. SMITH..

R. V. FLETCHER.8