OF CASES ARGUED AND DECIDED IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. BY JOHN MCLEAN, VOL. I. CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY E. MORGAN & CO. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by N. C. MCLEAN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Ohio. CINCINNATI: PRINTED BY E. MORGAN & Co. X-9967 PREFACE. THESE Reports were prepared and published at the request of gentlemen of the Bar, in different parts of the Seventh Circuit; and it is hoped that they will be found somewhat useful to the Bench and the Bar, at least within the Circuit. Many of the important cases reported, were taken to the Supreme Court for revision, and the decisions of the Circuit Court in all of them were affirmed, with the exception of some two or three decrees, the principles of which were mainly affirmed, but the forms of entering the decrees were modified. These modifications are stated in the Reports. In some of the opinions of the Court, there will be found a similarity to the opinions of the Supreme Court, on a review of the same cases. This arises from the fact, that the opinions in both Courts were written by the Circuit Judge; who does not deem it necessary to write the opinions delivered in the Circuit Court, over again. 104957 |