Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 17New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Edward Jordan Dimock, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, James Newton Fiero, Alvah S. Newcomb Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1859 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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| Title | Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 17 |
| Authors | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Edward Jordan Dimock, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, James Newton Fiero, Alvah S. Newcomb |
| Publisher | Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1859 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Jun 2007 |
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