WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES TO SUBSEQUENT DECISIONS,

BY ROBERT DESTY,

ATTORNEY AT LAW.

SAN FRANCISCO:

SUMNER WHITNEY & Co., 613 CLAY STREET.
A. L. BANCROFT & Co., 721 MARKET STREET.
1875.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord 1855, by

H. P. HEPBURN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of California.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord 1875, by SUMNER WHITNEY AND A. L. BANCROFT & CO.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

JUDGES

OF

THE SUPREME COURT,

DURING THE YEAR 1854.

HUGH C. MURRAY, Chief Justice.

SOLOMON HEYDENFELDT, Associate Justice. ALEXANDER WELLS,* Associate Justice.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

J. R. McCONNELL.

*Died October 31, 1854.