Excerpt from A Selection of Cases and Other Authorities on Civil Procedure in Actions at Law This collection of cases and other authorities is intended primarily for the use of students who are beginning the study of the law. About five years ago, when the editor began his work as a teacher of law in the Harvard Law School, he decided to enlarge the course on Pleading in that school into a course on Civil Procedure. It seemed that it would make the subject easier for the student to understand if he were shown how an action is carried through the courts, and if he were taught Pleading in its proper relation to the other steps in an action. In the selection and arrangement of the material, the editor has had in mind the needs of the first-year student who, though familiar in a general way with parts of the substantive law, has no knowledge of procedure except as he may have derived from the daily newspapers some notions of legal forensics. The cases cited in the footnotes are not for the most part merely cumulative. They are intended to suggest variations of the problems presented in the principal cases, and are adapted for use as hypothetical cases in the class-room. The names and arguments of counsel have been omitted. Other omissions are duly indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.