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National Reporter System-State Series

THE

ATLANTIC REPORTER

WITH KEY-NUMBER ANNOTATIONS

VOLUME 81

PERMANENT EDITION

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

WITH TABLE OF STATUTES CONSTRUED

OCTOBER 19, 1911-FEBRUARY 8, 1912

ST. PAUL
WEST PUBLISHING CO.

1912

COPYRIGHT, 1911

BY

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGIIT, 1912

BY

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY

(81 ATL.)

ATLANTIC REPORTER, VOLUME 81

JUDGES

OF THE

COURTS REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD

COVERED BY THIS VOLUME

CONNECTICUT-Supreme Court of Errors.

FREDERIC B. HALL, CHIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
SAMUEL O. PRENTICE.

ALBERTO T. RORABACK.
JOHN M. THAYER.

GEORGE W. WHEELER

DELAWARE-Supreme Court.

CHARLES M. CURTIS, CHANCELLOR.
JAMES PENNEWILL, CIIIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
WILLIAM H. BOYCE.

VICTOR B. WOOLLEY.
HENRY C. CONRAD.

HERBERT L. RICE.

Court of Chancery.
CHARLES M. CURTIS, CHANCELLOB,

MAINE-Supreme Judicial Court.

LUCILIUS A. EMERY, CHIEF JUSTICE.1
WM. PENN WHITEHOUSE, CHIEF JUSTICE.2

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
WM. PENN WHITEHOUSE.2

ARNO W. KING.
ALBERT R. SAVAGE.

GEORGE E. BIRD.
ALBERT M. SPEAR.

GEORGE F. HALEY.
LESLIE C. CORNISH.

GEORGE M. HANSON.3

MARYLAND-Court of Appeals.

A. HUNTER BOYD, CHIEF JUDGE.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
JOIN P. BRISCOE.

WILLIAM H. THOMAS.
JAMES A. PEARCE.

JOHN R. PATTISON.
N. CHARLES BURKE.

HAMMOND URNER.
HENRY STOCKBRIDGE.

1 Resigned July 26, 1911.
* Appointed Chief Justice July 26, 1911.

• Appointed July 26, 1911, to succeed Wm. Penı

Whitehouse.

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