THE Connection between Messrs. BEST AND SMITH, аs authorised Reporters of this Court, was suddenly severed by the death of the former on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1869. Their joint labours end with the Report of Morton v. Woods, in the Exchequer Chamber, pp. 632, 650. Mr. SMITH, having access to the note books of his deeply regretted colleague, has reported the subsequent cases in this Volume; the sheets as they passed through the press having been revised by P. V. SMITH, Esq., of the Inner Temple. In vol. 10 he hopes to bring down this Series of Reports to the end of Michaelmas Vacation, 1869, including the cases in which judgment was delivered subsequently, and the arguments and decisions on appeal to the Exchequer Chamber in cases previously decided in the Queen's Bench.

INNER TEMPLE,

April, 1870.

JUDGES

OF

THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH

DURING THE PERIOD COMPRISED IN THIS VOLUME.

The Right Hon. Sir ALEXANDER JAMES EDMUND COCKBURN, Bart., C. J.

Sir COLIN BLACKBURN, Knt.

Sir JOHN MELLOR, Knt.

Sir WILLIAM SHEE, Knt.

Sir ROBERT LUSH, Knt.

Sir JAMES HANNEN, Knt.

Sir GEORGE HAYES, Knt.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Sir JOHN BURGESS KARSLAKE, Knt.

SOLICITORS GENERAL.

Sir CHARLES JASPER SELWYN, Knt.
Sir WILLIAM BALIOL BRETT, Knt.
Sir RICHARD BAGGALLAY, Knt.