OF

CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

IRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT.

BY WILLIAM W. STORY,

REPORTER OF THe court.

Ctenim, in causis gravioribus, non absque re fuerit, legum præteritarum mutationes, et se-
ries consulere et inspicere; ac certe solenne est, antiquitatem præsentibus aspergere.
BACON, De Aug. Scien. Lib. 8. cap. 3. Aph. 63.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

1842.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842,

by WILLIAM W. STORY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

LIGRA OF THE

LELAN STALINA. JIN, UNIVERSITY
LAY BEPARTMENT.

CAMBRIDGE;
METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

Clarke v. New Jersey Steam Navigation Company
Cocker v. Franklin Hemp and Bagging Company

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528

F.

43

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