Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Sitting in General Term, From January 1879 to June 1880: Together With Some General and Special Term Cases of Later Date Not Heretofore Reported It seems proper to explain the circumstances that have led to the issue of this volume. After the 8d of Mac Ar thur I reported a number of decisions made in the General Term which appeared from time to time in the Washington Law Reporter. They are reproduced in this volume and extend from page 1 to page 249, including the case of Oliver vs. Cameron. Besides these, there were a number of other decisions involving important legal questions both in law and equity that I was unable to prepare for publication from want of time. Those of the most practical value have been selected by Mr. Mackey and prepared with his usual care and discretion for this book. The decisions of the Court in Banc are thus brought down to the let of Mackey, forming an intermediary volume or connecting link between the point of time when I left off and be commenced, afford ing a continuous report of the decisions of the court since 1875. It is a matter of sincere congratulation that Mr. Mackey is willing to perform the valuable work of preparing these reports with scarcely any other hope of reward than the honorable discharge of a debt which every lawyer is said to owe to his profession. 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.