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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia: Sitting in General Term, from June 14, 1880, to [June 20, 1892], Volume 17 |
| Authors | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey |
| Publisher | J. L. Ginck, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Aug 2007 |
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