PREFACE. In this volume, 5 AMERICAN NEGLIGENCE REPORTS, the plan of the previous volumes of the Current Series of Reports of Negligence cases has been extended by the addition of many notes upon the cases reported, a list of which notes is to be found at the end of the Table of Cases Reported. The cases reported comprise those arising out of Negligence of Carriers, Corporations, Landlord and Tenant, Master and Servant, Municipal Corporations, Railroads, etc., during 1898 and 1899, decided in the highest courts of the States and Territories of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Indiana (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Indian Territory, Iowa, Kansas (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (Supreme and Appellate Courts), Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey (Supreme Court and Court of Errors and Appeals), New Mexico, New York (Court of Appeals and Appellate Division of Supreme Court), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (Supreme Court and Court of Civil Appeals), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, together with cases in the Circuit Courts, Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Annotations and notes of English cases will be found of interest in connection with the citations in several of the decisions [iii] reported herein. The Table of Cases Classified, which precedes The Editor cordially acknowledges the able services of Mr. New York, June, 1899. JOHN M. GARDNER. [For convenience of reference the official citations of the cases reported herein, so far as the same have appeared to date of publication of this volume, together with citations of other systems of reports, are added to this Table. Notes of cur- rent cases are designated by the letter n preceding the number of the page on which the same appear in this volume, as for instance: Auld v. Manhattan Life Atha & Illingworth Co. v. Costello.... .N. J.; 42 Atl. 766... .407 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co. v. Joy.... 173 U. S. 226. Barkley v. New York Central & Hud- Barrett v. Great Northern R'y Co.... Bartley v. Metropolitan Street R'y Co.. Mo.; 49 S. W. 840.. Bartnik v. Erie Railroad Co...........36 App. Div. (N. Y.) 246; 55 N. Y. .Mass.; 52 N. E. 541. Brewster v. Western Union Telegraph Brown v. Chicago & N. W. R'y Co... Wis.; 77 N. W. 748. ..508 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Cigar Co. v. City of Portland. Citizens' Railway Co. v. Gifford. City of Chattanooga v. Dowling. City of Circleville v. Sohn... . . . .Kan.; 54 Pac. 1052. PAGE 35 .299 43 20 Ind. App. 239; 50 N. E. 578....n152 Deserant v. Cerillos Coal R. R. Co.... N. Mex.; 55 Pac. 290. |