Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Reports, Vol. 39: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States; With Notes and References The volumes of State Reports are in parenthesis, and the volumes of American Reports in heavy letter. Abbans(44)4; (45) 6; ll; (48) 17; 20; (51, 52) 29 (53, 54) 25; (55, (64) 98 (65) 397. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.