Excerpt from The American Decisions, Vol. 2: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States; From the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869 Here, it will be seen that I have omitted the general propo sition stated in the original syllabus, because it was a p'inciple necessarily assumed in the decision of the case, and about which there was no question; and it will also be seen that the original syllabus entirely omits a very important point, viz. What reason able time was held to be in this case. These are illustrative examples, showing how little dependence can be placed on the syllabi in some of the reports, and how often they fail to be a faithful index of the court's decision. 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.