OF

DECISIONS RENDERED

IN THE

CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

BY

BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT,

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

'DIOSSY & COMPANY.

1871.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1871, by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.

Chief Justice.

SALMON P. CHASE,
Residence, Washington, D. C.

Fourth Circuit.

Associate Justices.

SAMUEL NELSON, Cooperstown, N.Y.
Second Circuit.

NATHAN CLIFFORD, Portland, Me.

First Circuit.

NOAH H. SWAYNE, Columbus, Ohio.

Sixth Circuit.

SAMUEL F. MILLER, Keokuk, Iowa.
Eighth Circuit.

DAVID Davis, Bloomington, Ill.

Seventh Circuit.

STEPHEN J. FIELD, San Francisco, Cal.

Ninth Circuit.

WILLIAM STRONG, Philadelphia, Pa.

Third Circuit.

JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, Newark, N. J.

Fifth Circuit.