Excerpt from Massachusetts Reports, Vol. 228: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; July 1917-December 1917 In pursuance of the system adopted in 1874, beginning with 115 Mass., the cases are reported in the order of decision, and those decided on the same day are arranged according to the dates of argument or submission of briefs. The only exception to the rule is that, where an opinion is withdrawn temporarily by order of the court and is returned to the reporter too late to be printed in its regular place, it is inserted at the time of return. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.