United States Reports

NEW YORK AND ALBANY

BANKS & BROTHERS, LAW PUBLISHERS

1888

V

2

COPYRIGHT, 1888,
BY BANKS & BROTHERS.

Rept. 11.24.25

ELECTROTYPED BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., BOSTON.

JUSTICES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

MORRISON REMICK WAITE, CHIEF Justice.1
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
STANLEY MATTHEWS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
HORACE GRAY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR,
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

AUGUSTUS HILL GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS JENKS, SOLICITOR GENERAL.

JAMES HALL MCKENNEY, Clerk.

JOHN MONTGOMERY WRIGHT, MARSHAL.

1 CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE died at Washington on the morning of March 23, 1888.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

TABLE OF CASES REPORTED.

Addington v. Burke

Arthur's Executors v. Butterfield

Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Western Union Telegraph Company v.