20 May 8 REPORTS OF CASES →→ IN THE SUPREME COURT ОР NEBRASKA. JANUARY AND JULY TERMS, 1873 AND 1874. BY LORENZO CROUNSE, COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. LINCOLN: STATE JOURNAL COMPANY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, A. D. 1874, BY LORENZO CROUNSE. Ree. March 22, 1875 STEREOTYPED BY MILLS & COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. PREFACE. THE general plan adopted by my predecessor has been followed in this volume. The opinions, however, have been collected and arranged under the head of the terms, respectively, at which they were delivered. This arrangement begins with the first term held by the present Justices. In cases where decisions were announced before, but the opinions have been subsequently filed, the opinions are collected in an appendix. Liberty has been taken to omit portions of the briefs of counsel, where they are quite lengthy-particularly such parts as relate to questions not considered by the court, and some attention has been given to verifying references, to see that the correct volume and page are given. My time having been mostly engaged in other directions, this volume has mainly been prepared by GUY A. BROWN, ESQ., of Lincoln. His relation to the court for years, and his experience in compiling the General Statutes of Nebraska, have qualified him to bring into the work that perspicuity and accuracy so desirable in the reports of judicial decisions. My labor has been little more than revisory. L. CROUNSE. LINCOLN, October, 1874. |