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Excerpt from A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Iowa, Vol. 1: From Its Organization Until the End of the January Term, 1887, Including Morris' and Green's Reports, and the Series of Iowa Reports Up to and Including Volume LXX, Except Cases Therein First Decided at the March Term The aim of this work is to present a complete digest, under one arrangement, of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the territory and state of Iowa from its organization in 1838 (the first case reported being decided, however, in 1839) until its March term, 1887. Cases finally decided at that term on rehearing are also given, so far as they are to appear in Volume LXX of Iowa Reports. All the cases in that volume are included except a few which were first announced at the March term. In view of the fact that the federal courts in Iowa follow and administer the Iowa law so far as the determination of cases before them depends upon the construction or applica tion of the state constitution or statutes, or upon state decisions which have become a settled rule of property, and that in certain classes of cases the decisions of the state Su preme Court are subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States, it has been thought advisable to incorporate notes of all published opinions of such courts in cases tried in, or appealed from, Iowa, so far as they relate to Iowa law or to subjects peculiar to this state. Such cases will, it is believed, be found especially interesting and valuable in rela tion to assignments for the benefit of creditors, chattel mortgages, municipal bonds, and public land grants in Iowa. 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.