OF

CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN

THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH,

AND

THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER CHAMBER

ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

WITH TABLES OF THE NAMES OF THE CASES REPORTED AND CITED,
AND AN INDEX OF THE CONTENTS.

BY

WILLIAM MAWDESLEY BEST, OF GRAY'S INN,

AND

GEORGE JAMES PHILIP SMITH, OF THE INNER TEMPLE,

ESQRS., BARRISTERS AT LAW.

VOL. IX.

CONTAINING HILARY TERM AND VACATION, EASTER TERM
AND VACATION, TRINITY TERM AND VACATION, AND
MICHAELMAS TERM AND VACATION, 1868.

XXXI. & XXXII. VICTORIA.

WITH SOME CASES OF SUBSEQUENT TERMS.

LONDON:

H. SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET,
Law Bookseller and Publisher.

LONDON:

RAYNER AND HODGES, PRINTERS, 109, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street.

THE connection between Messrs. BEST AND SMITH, as authorised Reporters of this Court, was suddenly severed by the death of the former on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1869. Their joint labours end with the Report of Morton v. Woods, in the Exchequer Chamber, pp. 632, 650. Mr. SMITH, having access to the note books of his deeply regretted colleague, has reported the subsequent cases in this Volume; the sheets as they passed through the press having been revised by P. V. SMITH, Esq., of the Inner Temple. In vol. 10 he hopes to bring down this Series of Reports to the end of Michaelmas Vacation, 1869, including the cases in which judgment was delivered subsequently, and the arguments and decisions on appeal to the Exchequer Chamber in cases previously decided in the Queen's Bench.

INNER TEMPLE,

April, 1870.