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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 161 |
| Author | Alabama. Supreme Court |
| Published | 1910 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
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