IN THE

CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE

FOURTH CIRCUIT;

MOST OF THEM SINCE CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE CAME UPON THE
BENCH; AND OF SELECTED CASES IN ADMIRALTY AND
BANKRUPTCY, DECIDED IN THE DISTRICT

COURTS OF THAT CIRCUIT.

WITH

AN APPENDIX TO THE SECOND VOLUME,

CONTAINING THE RULES IN ADMIRALTY AND BANKRUPTCY, OF THE
DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA,
AND THE RULES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR

THAT DISTRICT, ETC., ETC.

BY ROBERT W. IIUGHES,

ONE OF THE DISTRICT JUDGES,

VOL. I.

WASHINGTON, D. C.:
W. H. & 0. H. MORRISON,

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877,

By W. H. & 0. H. MORRISON,

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

nee Sov.12,1877

SHERMAN & co., PRINTERS,

PHILADELPHIA.

BENCH AND BAR BY HIS" INSTITUTES OF THE COMMON AND
STATUTE LAW," AND BY HIS LECTURES, FOR MANY
YEARS, IN THE PRINCIPAL LAW SCHOOL

OF THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTH

WESTERN STATES.