THE

SOUTHERN REPORTER,

VOLUME 28,

CONTAINING ALL THE DECISIONS OF THE

SUPREME COURTS OF ALABAMA, LOUIS-
IANA, FLORIDA, MISSISSIPPI.

COPYRIGHT, 1901,

BY

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY.

SOUTHERN REPORTER, VOLUME 28.

JUDGES

OF THE

COURTS REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY THIS VOLUME.

COURT RULES AND ORDERS.

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA.

Amendment to Rule 14.1

Ordered, that paragraph three of rule XIV |
of this court be amended so as to require of
the candidate a knowledge of the history and
jurisdiction of the federal courts, and to that
end he shall be read in Foster's Federal Prac-
tice, Story or Daniels' Equity Jurisprudence,
Parsons or Benedict's Maritime Law, or Conk-
ling's Admiralty, Wharton's Conflict of Laws,
and Dillon on Municipal Corporations.
Adopted June 30, 1899.

Amendment to Paragraph 8,
Rule 7.2

The clerk shall receive no brief or argu-
ment in a cause, before or after submission,
unless accompanied by a certificate that cop-
les of the same have been served on opposing
counsel, with date of such service.
Adopted June 18, 1900.

merically shall the volumes be numbered, giving to each its proper number as Louisiana Reports.

And no volume shall embrace between its covers less than 750 pages, nor more than 900 pages.

The reports shall appear first in "numbers," as at present, and then in bound volumes as fast as enough opinions are ready to make a volume of from 750 to 900 pages.

It is required that the volumes be bound in calf, of a style and quality not inferior to the binding of the United States Reports. Adopted June 18, 1900.

Acadia and Lafayette.
St. Martin and Iberia.

Hereafter the public printer, and such oth-Pointe Coupee and West Baton

er persons as may be charged by law with the publication of the reports of the supreme court of Louisiana, are required to give the title of "Louisiana Reports," instead of "Louisiana Annual Reports," to such publications.

The first volume following the 52 Louisiana Annual Reports shall be known as the 104 Louisiana Reports, and so on thereafter nu

Rouge
East Baton Rouge.
East Feliciana and West
Tangipahoa, St. Helena,
Livingston

liciana

Lafourche and Terrebonne.
St. Mary

L. B. Claiborne.
H. F. Brunot.
D. N. Thompson.
.J. L. Dagg.
W.F. Blackman.
T. D. Foster.
L. P. Caillouet.
A. C. Allen.

M. T. Gordy.
E. T. Lewis.

Paul Leche.
R. R. Reid.

Fe

E. B. Talbot.

and

.J. M. Thompson.
C. De Baillon.
E. D. Miller.

Assumption and Ascension....G. H. Couvillion.
Washington and St. Tammany.. Robt. Hingle.
St. James and St. John the Bap-
tist
Iberville

Chas. Kilbourne. ..J. L. Gaudet.

The holding over judges of the courts of appeal in the First, Second, Third and Fourth circuits, and the judge to be appointed pursuant to a recent act of the general assem

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