UNITED STATES REPORTS

VOLUME 117

CASES ADJUDGED

IN

THE SUPREME COURT

AT

OCTOBER TERM, 1885

J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS

REPORTER

NEW YORK AND ALBANY

BANKS & BROTHERS, LAW PUBLISHERS

1886

Jan; RR

KF

101

A 212
V.117

COPTRIGHT. 1886,

BY BANKS & BROTHERS.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.,
Nos. 10 to 20 Astor Place, New York.

REPRINTED IN TAIWAN

JUSTICES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

MORRISON R. WAITE, CHIEF-JUSTICE.
SAMUEL F. MILLER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
STEPHEN J. FIELD, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
JOHN M. HARLAN, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
WILLIAM B. WOODS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
STANLEY MATTHEWS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
HORACE GRAY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND.

SOLICITOR-GENERAL.

JOHN GOOde.

CLERK.

JAMES H. MCKENNEY.

MARSHAL.

JOHN G. NICOLAY.

See Appendix for:

I. Chief Justice Taney's Memorandum for opinion in Gordon v. United States, 2 Wall. 561....

PAGE

697

II. Proceedings of the Court on the death of the Vice-President..... 707 III. Amendment to Rules...

708

ERRATA.

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