THE

ATLANTIC REPORTER,

VOLUME 62

CONTAINING ALL THE REPORTED DECISIONS OF THE

Supreme Courts of Maine, New HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, RHODE ISLAND,
CONNECTICUT, and PENNSYLVANIA; Court of Errors and Appeals,
Court of Chancery, and Supreme and Prerogative Courts
of New JERSEY; Supreme Court, Court of Chancery,
Superior Court, Court of General Sessions, and
Court of Oyer and Terminer of DELAWARE;

and Court of Appeals of MARYLAND.

COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY.

JUDGES

OF THE

COURTS REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THIS VOLUME.

CONNECTICUT-Supreme Court of Errors.

DAVID TORRANCE, CHIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
SIMEON E. BALDWIN.

FREDERICK B. HALL.
WILLIAM HAMERSLEY.

SAMUEL 0. PRENTICE.

DELAWARE-Supreme Court.

JOHN R. NICHOLSON, CHANCELLOR.
CHARLES B. LORE, CHIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
WILLIAM C. SPRUANCE,

JAMES PENNEWILL
IGNATIUS C. GRUBB.

WILLIAM H, BOYCE.

Court of Chancery.

JOHN R. NICHOLSON, CHANCELLOR.

MAINE-Supreme Judicial Court

ANDREW P. WISWELL, CHIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
LUCILIUS A. EMERY.

ALBERT R. SAVAGE.
WM. PENN WHITEHOUSE.

FREDERICK A, POWERS.
SEWALL C. STROUT.

HENRY C. PEABODY
ALBERT M. SPEAR.

MARYLAND-Court of Appeals.

JAMES MCSHERRY, CHIEF JUDGE.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
JOHN P. BRISCOE.

JAMES A. PEARCE,
A. HUNTER BOYD.

SAMUEL D. SCHMUCKER.
DAVID FOWLER. 1

I. THOMAS JONES.
HENRY PAGE.

N. CHARLES BURKE.

NEW HAMPSHIRE-Supreme Court.

FRANK N. PARSONS, CHIEF JUSTICE.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
WILLIAM M. CHASE.

GEORGE H. BINGHAM
REUBEN E. WALKER

JOHN E. YOUNG. * Resigned October 6, 1905.

Appointed October 9, 1905. (111)

507830

NEW JERSEY-Court of Errors and Appeals.

WILLIAM J. MAGIE, CHANCELLOR.
WILLIAM S. GUMMERE, CHIEF JOSTICR.

JUSTICES.
JONATHAN DIXON.

CHARLES E. HENDRICKSON CHARLES G. GARRISON.

MAHLON PITNEY. JOHN FRANKLIN FORT.

FRANCIS J. SWAYZE ABRAM Q. GARRETSON.

1