THE RULES OF PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES COURTS ANNOTATED EDITED BY WILLIAM WHITWELL DEWHURST ATTORNEY-AT-LAW THE BANKS LAW PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK 1907 PREFACE This book has been compiled in recognition of the necessity for a convenient volume of the most important decisions of the Federal Courts, applying their rules of practice, and announcing the principles upon which those rules are based. The difficulty has been to eliminate from the mass of valuable material, cases which merely restate a principle before announced. The Editor has endeavored to select the leading cases under each rule and avoid repetition. Of the great number of cases cited, it will be found that, with few exceptions, the citation is from the body of the case, and usually in the language of the Justice or Judge delivering the opinion. It is believed that the selection of cases will be approved and that the volume will be found very useful to the Bench and Bar. WILLIAM WHITWELL Dewhurst. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, May 1, 1907. |