of the Supreme Court of Arkansas From 1837 to 1917 Reported in the Arkansas Reports volumes 1-126 By T. D. CRAWFORD VOLUME I. ABANDONMENT to CONTRACTORS F. H. THOMAS LAW BOOK COMPANY ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI PREFACE. The digest includes all cases reported in the Arkansas Reports, Vols. 1-126, also all cases reported in the Southwestern Reporter, Vols. 1-194, thus digesting all the written opinions reported in the latter but not in the former series. Also wherever cases have been appealed from the Supreme Court of Arkansas to the Supreme Court of the United States, the opinions of the latter court have been digested. Since the first two volumes of the author's digest were published in 1897, there has been much improvement in the methods of digesting law reports. Naturally some changes in classification will be found in the present work from the arrangement of the former work. It has seemed desirable. to assimilate the scheme of classification, as far as convenient, to that of the Decennial Digest. Probably the most distinct departure therefrom will be found in the chapter on Mortgages, which includes Chattel Mortgages. While there may be sound reason in some States for separating the two classes of mortgages into separate chapters, no such reason seems to exist in this State. It is noticeable that shorter opinions are handed down than formerly by the Supreme Court, and also that more questions are disposed of than were decided in the early days of the court. These facts tend, in a measure, to explain the increase of the size of this digest over the author's digest of the first 62 volumes, published in 1897. T. D. CRAWFORD. Little Rock, September 25, 1917. |