MASSACHUSETTS REPORTS

122

CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT

OF

MASSACHUSETTS

JANUARY — JUNE, 1877

JOHN LATHROP

REPORTER

BOSTON:

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1878

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY, the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

JUDGES

OF THE

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

HON. HORACE GRAY, CHIEF JUSTICE.

HON. JAMES D. COLT.

HON. SETH AMES.

HON. MARCUS MORTON.

HON. WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT.

HON. CHARLES DEVENS.
(Resigned, March 12, 1877.)
HON. OTIS P. LORD.

HON. AUGUSTUS L. SOULE.
(Appointed, March 27, 1877.)

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

HON. CHARLES R. TRAIN.