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REPORTS

OF

CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE

OF THE

STATE OF INDIANA,

WITH TABLES OF THE CASES REPORTED AND CITED
AND AN INDEX.

BY JAMES B. BLACK,

OFFICIAL REPORTER.

VOL. XXXV.

CONTAINING THE CASES DECIDED AT THE NOVEMBER TERM,
1870, NOT PUBLISHED IN VOLS. XXXIII. AND XXXIV.,
AND CASES DECIDED AT THE MAY TERM, 1871.

INDIANAPOLIS:

JOURNAL COMPANY, PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

1873.

Entered, according to the act of Congress, in the year 1873, by

JAMES B. BLACK,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Rec., Jan. 27, 1878.

JUDGES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

JOHN PETTIT, LL. D.*

ALEXANDER C. DOWNEY, LL. D.†
JAMES L. WORDEN, LL. D.

SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, LL. D.

*Chief Justice at the November Term, 1870.
+Chief Justice at the May Term, 1871.

OFFICERS

OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE.

ATTORNEY GENERAL,
HON. BAYLESS W. HANNA.

REPORTER,
JAMES B. BLACK.

CLERK

THEODORE W. M'COY.

SHERIFF,
JAMES P. WATSON.

LIBRARIAN,

JOHN GRAHAM.