UNITED STATES REPORTS

VOLUME 168

CASES ADJUDGED

IN

THE SUPREME COURT

AT

OCTOBER TERM, 1897

J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS

REPORTER

NEW YORK AND ALBANY

BANKS & BROTHERS, LAW PUBLISHERS

1898

CORRECTION.

In volume 167, page 409 the following corrections should be made. Take
out the words "Mr. H. B. Titus filed a brief for same" on lines 12 and 11
from bottom, and insert them after "error" on line 13 from bottom.

JUSTICES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, CHIEF JUSTICE.
STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.1
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
HORACE GRAY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

DAVID JOSIAH BREWER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
HENRY BILLINGS BROWN, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
GEORGE SHIRAS, JR., ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
RUFUS W. PECKHAM, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

JOSEPH MCKENNA, ATTORNEY GENERAL.
JOHN K. RICHARDS, SOLICITOR GENERAL.
JAMES HALL MCKENNEY, CLERK.
JOHN MONTGOMERY WRIGHT, MARSHAL.

1 Mr. Justice Field, having resigned, ceased to be a member of the court on the first day of December, 1897. The correspondence between him and the other members of the court on the subject of his retirement, will be found in the appendix to this volume.

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