TABLE OF CONTENTS. V

RECENT CASES — Contracts — a?«//««^^. pagb Oral agreement a defence to bill in equity 451 Oral agreement to maintain switch so long as plaintiff may need it . . 452 Statute of Limitations, oral promise to waive 134 Usury 452 Wilful breach, right of party to recover in spite of 381 See Conflict of Laws and Damages. Corporations. Attempted incorporation ; participants liable as partners . . 61 Building and loan associations ; usury 247 Common officer of two companies ; imputed knowledge 311 Control of State over corporations of a public nature 128 De facto corporations 452 Defects in highway, liability of county for 452 Exemption from taxation ; does not pass with charter 60 Municipal; illegal actions of public officials; right of individual to interfere 453 Invalid appointment; recovery of salary 381 Railroad ; right of way ; seizure on execution 382 Re-organization ; liability of old corporation for deeds of new 247 Right to do business in foreign state 62 Right to prefer creditors •..,..... 248 Stock ; right of life-tenant 187 Suspension of member 248,311 Transfer of stock ; liability of transferrer 382 Criminal Law. Appeal; abatement by death 453 Continuing trespass 61 Evidence 248 Extradition 61 Homicide; self-defence by trespasser 129 Self-defence ; duty to retreat 382 Proof of agency 312 Criminal Procedure, ^tc Crimituil Law znd Evidence. Damages. Anticipatory breach , 62 Conversion of stock 312 Covenant of warranty ; limit to amount of recovery 385 Covenant to convey, recovery for buildings erected on faith of 451 Cutting down trees 527 Duty to mitigate • 129 Measure of, for appropriation of land . . . . • 130 Prospective profits 187 Dedication. See Persons and Real Property. Deed. See Partnership and Real Property. Divorce. See Persons. DoMiciL. See Conflict of Laws. Equity. Bigamous marriage ; fraud of plaintiff 188 Duress ; threats of suicide 62 Improvements made under mistake as to title 453 Jurisdiction in case of mental disability 249 Recovery for release of claim to which plaintiff might have been subro- gated 384 Release in general terms 312 Subjection of dower to judgment creditor before assignment 382 Subrogation 383, 453 Evidence. Admissions 130 Character of deceased in murder trial 248