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NEGLIGENCE REPORTS

CURRENT SERIES
[CITED AM. NEG. REP.]

ALL THE CURRENT NEGLIGENCE CASES DECIDED IN THE FEDERAL
COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES, THE COURTS OF LAST
RESORT OF ALL THE STATES AND TERRITORIES AND
SELECTIONS FROM THE INTERMEDIATE COURTS

TOGETHER WITH

NOTES OF ENGLISH CASES AND ANNOTATIONS

EDITED BY

JOHN M. GARDNER
OF THE NEW YORK BAR

VOL. XII

NEW YORK

REMICK & SCHILLING.

1903

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PREFACE.

The cases reported in this volume of the series of AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE Reports (vol. XII) relate to INJURIES TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY, decided in the State and Federal Courts during the year 1902, being Negligence cases arising out of the relations of CARRIER AND PASSENGER, LANDLORD AND TENANT, MASTER AND SERVANT, MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS, STEAM AND STREET RAILROAD COMPANIES, and all other branches of the Law of NEGLIGENCE. Additional cases, prior to those decided in 1902, are appended to the numerous Notes and Annotations to the current decisions reported in this volume.

Among the SPECIAL NOTES on the various topics of NEGLIGENCE LAW are the following: Liability of Carriers for Loss of Baggage; Liability of Connecting Carriers for Negligence; Recent cases on Furnishing Servant Safe Place to Work; Recent cases of Defective Appliances; Recent cases on Proximate Cause of Injury; Recent cases arising from Injuries to Trespassers, which notes are contributed by MR. ALFRED J. Hook, Librarian of the Law Library in Brooklyn, N. Y. The complete list of Special and other Notes in this volume will be found at the end of the TABLE Of Cases Reported.

Annotations and Notes of English Cases are added to many of the cases reported herein, with numerous cross-references to various topics and cases reported in the series of AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE REPORTS.

The cases reported in this volume comprise decisions in the highest Courts of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Indiana (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Indian Territory, Iowa, Kansas (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey (Supreme and Errors and

Appeals), New York (Court of Appeals and Appellate Division
of Supreme Court), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, (Supreme
and Intermediate Courts), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas
(Supreme and Civil Appeals), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash-
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and the United
States Supreme, Circuit Courts of Appeals, Circuit and District
Courts.

Reference to the TABLE OF CASES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO
FACTS, which precedes the INDEX, will enable the practitioner to
see at a glance the nature of the case reported, and thus act as a
ready guide to a case in point.

The editor cordially acknowledges the able services of MR.
WALTER J. EAGLE in the preparation of the cases and the gen-
eral notes and annotations thereto, and the compilation of the
Tables of Cases and Index in this volume of AMERICAN
NEGLIGENCE REPORTS.

NEW YORK, January, 1903.

JOHN M. GARDNER.

TABLE OF CASES REPORTED.

[Notes of current cases are designated by the letter n preceding the number of

the page on which the same appears in this volume, as, for instance: Andrews

v. Kinsel, 114 Ga. 390....

....n 486].

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