Excerpt from Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska, 1882, Vol. 13 The volume of laws quoted as the Revised Statutes or Rev. Stat, refers to the edition prepared in 1866, by E. Estabrook. The volume of laws quoted as the General Statutes or Gen. Stat, refers to the edition prepared in 1873, by guy A. Brown. Acts of various years are cited by a reference to the vol ume of laws of the year in which they were passed. The volume of laws quoted as the Compiled Statutes or Comp. Stat, refers to the edition prepared in 1881, by guy A. Brown. This volume contains a report of all decisions handed down prior to January term, 1 883, not previously reported. The syllabus of each case in this volume was prepared by the judge writing the Opinion, in accordance with Rule XIV. All of the judges concurred in the opinion, except where specially noted. 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.