AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE DIGEST FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO 1902 A DIGEST OF ALL THE DECISIONS CONTAINED IN THE AMERICAN OF APPEALS, CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS), THE STATES AND TERRITORIES, THE INTERME- DIATE COURTS, ENGLISH CASES AND OF 43603 COPYRIGHT, 1902 BY REMICK, SCHILLING & CO. WEED-PARSONS PRINTING COMPANY, PREFACE. The AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE CASES first appeared in 1895; that the series was well received by lawyers is evidenced by the number of volumes that thus far have been published, the eleventh volume having been delivered in the early part of this year. The plan of the work was and is to publish all American negligence cases from the earliest period to the end of 1896. So well were the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE CASES received and so many were the inquiries concerning recently decided negligence cases that in 1897 there was published the first volume of a new series called the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE REPORTS. These contain the negligence cases decided within a month or two of their appearance in the pamphlet that is issued from time to time before the bound volume. The two series constitute a very complete library of American negligence decisions. Nine volumes of the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE REPORTS were published when the demand of the subscribers for a digest of both series became so strenuous that compliance was deemed necessary, and the present volume is the result. It is hoped that this digest will be of great assistance to those who possess or have access to the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE CASES and the American NeGLIGENCE REPORTS. As the usefulness of a digest of decisions is measured by lawyers by the amount of time saved in looking up cases, the attention of those using this one is directed to the fact that there are two series of books. digested, and to the need of observing whether the case cited is reported in the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE CASES or the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE REPORTS, to the end that the object of this digest the saving of their time may be in part accomplished. The classification adopted is that of the main plan of the AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE CASES, with the subjects subdivided. Such large subjects as MASTER AND SERVANT and TORTS have been. entirely subdivided, and each subdivision made a separate topic, to which there will be found a cross-reference. Placing the topics thus subdivided again under the subject would be mere repetition, and serve no useful purpose. As full a statement of the matter digested has been given as was permissible with the view of keeping the book within a small compass and uniform in size with the volumes of the two series. ALFRED J. HOOK. BROOKLYN, April, 1902. [iii] |