National Reporter System.-State Series.

THE

NORTHEASTERN REPORTER,

VOLUME 50,

CONTAINING ALL THE CURRENT DECISIONS OF THE

SUPREME COURTS OF MASSACHUSETTS, OHIO, ILLINOIS, INDIANA,
APPELLATE COURT OF INDIANA. AND THE COURT

OF APPEALS OF NEW YORK.

PERMANENT EDITION

APRIL 29-JULY 22, 1898.

WITH TABLE or NORTHEASTERN CASES IN WHICH REHEARINGS HAVE BEEx Denied.
WT! TABLES OF NORTHEASTERN Cases PUBLISHED IN Vols. 171, 172, Illinois REPORTS; 169, MASSA-

CHUSETTS REPORTS; 155, New York REPORTS; 57, Ohio STATE REPORTS.

A TABLE OF STATUTES CONSTRUED IS GIVEN

IN THE INDEX.

ST. PAUL:
WEST PUBLISHING CO.

1898.

Lay Library

COPYRIGHT, 1898,

BY

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY.

JUDGES

OF THE

COURTS REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THIS VOLUME.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
JAMES B. BLACK.

ULRIC Z. WILEY.
DANIEL W. COMSTOCK.

WOODFIN D. ROBINSON,

YASSACHUSETTS-Supreme Judicial Court.

WALBRIDGE A. FIELD, CHIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
CHARLES ALLEN.

JAMES M. MORTON.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. JOHN LATHROP.
MARCUS P. KNOWLTON.

JAMES M. BARKER

NEW YORK-Court of Appeals.

CHARLES ANDREWS, CHIEF JUDGE. S
ALTON B. PARKER, CHIEF JUDGE.9

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
JOHN C. GRAY.

ALBERT HAIGHT.
DENIS O'BRIEN.

CELORA E. MARTIN.
EDWARD T. BARTLETT.

IRVING G. VANN.

OHIO-Supreme Court.

JACOB F. BURKET, CHIEF JUSTICE 10
WILLIAM T. SPEAR, CHIEF JUSTICE. 11

JUDGES.
JOSEPH P. BRADBURY.

THADDEUS A. MINSHALL.
JOHN A. SHAUCK.

MARSHALL J. WILLIAMS.
JACOB F. BURKET. 12