Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 187Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, James M. Reasoner, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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| Title | Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 187 |
| Authors | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, James M. Reasoner, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper |
| Publisher | Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1916 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 May 2008 |
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