THE

NEW-YORK LEGAL OBSERVER,

CONTAINING

REPORTS OF CASES .

DECIDED IN

THE COURTS OF EQUITY AND COMMON LAW,

AYD

IMPORTANT DECISIONS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS ;

ALSO,

ARTICLES ON LEGAL SUBJECTS,

PRACTICAL POINTS OF GENERAL INTEREST, REMARKABLE TRIALS,

SKETCHES OF THE BENCH AND THE BAR, ANECDOTES, &c., &e.

WITH

A TABLE OF CASES,
A GENERAL INDEX AND A DIGEST OF THE REPORTS

EDITED BY

SAMUEL OWEN,

OF THE NEW-YORK BAR.

VOL. VIII.

N Ꭼ Ꮃ . Ꮠ 0 Ꭱ Ꮶ :

SAMUEL OWEN, 75 NASSAU-STREET

1850.

324429

TABLE OF CASES

REPORTED IN THIS VOLUME.

H.

Page.

244

289

970

K.

Page. Atkinson v. Kinnear,

300 Harmony v. Mitchell. . . 329 Ayres and or's v. Trustees of the Metho- | Hayes v. Heyer and o’rs, - 86 dist Episcopal Church, - - 17 Hayes v. Bement and o’rs . . 83

Heyward and o’rs 0. The Mayor, &c. of
B.

N. Y., - .
Barnes v. Pennell and o’rs, .

35 Hill v. Muller, - . . 90 Barney o. Griffon and o’rs, - 68 Hitchcock o. Smith,. . . 206 Benedict v. N. Y. and Harlem Railroad, 168 Hoffman v. Sargent,

137 Bennett v. Williamson and an'r, 217 Hopwood v. Thorn,

39 Benyon d. Nettlefold,

204 Bible and Common Prayer Book Society,

1. The New-York v. Andrews,

361

Isabella, The, -
Blenkinsopp v. Blenkinsopp,
Blunt, impleaded with Symes ads. Allen, 105
Brown o. De Selding, .

224 Bunyan o. Isaacson,

103 -

77 Jackson v. Carrington,

77
c.
Chard v. Fox,
- . . 103

Kanouse v. Martin,
.

- - 159, 305
Childs v. Geraghty, · · · 172
Chipchase v. Simpson, · · 303
Clegg v. Fishwick,
Clowes and an’r ó. Farmers' Loan and Leavitt, Receiver o. Blatchford and o’rs, 53
Trust Company, -

Leggett v. Mott,

236

. Cole ads. Breck, ..

273 Lewis v. Campbell, • . - 144 Court of Appeals—Decisions April Ter

Lockwood v. Isaacson, - -
1848,

.
-
. . 294

354

Lowe v. Ross,
Cowell o. Watts, . .

M.
D.
Maclure v. Ripley, ..

297 Daw v. Cloud and an'r, - 175 Marfield v. Goodhue and o’rs,

110 Doe d. Arundel o. Fowler, 271 McCluskey v McGinley,

288 Doe d. Church o. Pontifex, . - 302 Meakings v. Cromwell and o’rs, - . 140 Dominick v. Sayre, Dorr and o’rs v. New-Jersey Steam Navigation Co. 345 Navone v. Hadden, - .

303 Downing in refusal accounting, 317 Noyes v. Blakeman,

189 Duncan v. Luntley, .. . 298

77

238

.

278

N.

Florence v. Bates,
Follett v. Jeffreys and o’rs,
Freernan o. Rosher,

0.
13 Oakley v. Aspinwall and o’rs,
201 Ord v. Fawcett,
38

123 299

Pacific, The v. Cleveland, - - 340 45 Parkhurst v. Kinsman and o’rs, 73, 146

77 Parsons o. Benn, - - - 202 302 People, The v. Hine,

139 204 People, The, ex relat. Norton v. Locke, 164 197 Platt v. Gilchrist and o’rs,

AN

INDEX
TO THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS

IN THIS VOLUME.

(For Digest of the Reports, see p. 385.)

72

ARTICLES-

The circuit in England in the reign of
On the domestic constitution--Crim. con. 1. Charles II., 176.
On fire caused by Railroad accident, 7. Breach of promise of marriage, 359.
On form for a notice of dishonor, 41.

Beauties of special pleading, 360.
On disobedience to subpæna. 145.

REVIEW-
COURT OF APPEALS-

The contract of endorsement. By Leges, 40.

Davies' Reports of Cases determined in the
Abstract of decisions in April Term, 1848, at

U. S. District Court, Maine,
the City Hall, New York, 294.

Barbour's Reports, Supreme Court, State of

New-York, vol. 4, 104.
CORRESPONDENCE-

The American Admiralty Jurisdiction and
Review of the case of Oakley v. Aspinwall Practice, with Practical Forms and direc-
and others, 129.

tions. By E. C. Benedict, 207.

Barbour's Reports, Supreme Court, State of
LETTERS

New-York, vol. 5, 240, 357.
Of Judges Conkling and Bronson, with re-

The Gallery of Illustrious Statesmen. By
ference to articles in N. Y. Legal Ob-

C. E. Lester, 240.
server, entitled " The contract of endorse-

Phillipps on Evidence, with Hill and Cowen's
ment,” 272.

Notes and alterations and additions, and
with references to the English and Ameri-

can authorities. By J. M. Van Cott, 304
MISCELLANEOUS-

Lockwood's Treatise on Husband and
Use of port wine--Blackstone and Addi- ! Wife, 326.
son, 52.

Dunlap's Admiralty Practice, 327.
Sir Edward Coke and the Doctors, 72. Clerk's Digest. By Hogan, 383.