Right Hon. GEORGE JESSEL, Master of the Rolls. Hon. Sir JAMES BACON, Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY. Right Hon. Sir ROBERT JOSEPH PHILLIMORE, Knt., D. C. L. The Prelates of the church of England, who are Privy Councillors, are members of the Judiciary Committee on Appeals to Her Majesty in Council under the church discipline act, but not otherwise. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. Page 16, First column, 5th line from bottom. If the agent's name appears, without his principal's, in an agreement required by the Statute of Frauds to be in writing, the principal may nevertheless enforce the agreement against the other party signing it. 24 Ohio St. Rep., 28. Page 115, Column 2, Line 33. Where the assignee of a bond and mortgage had permitted the mortgagee to receive payments upon the mortgage; held that an omission on the part of the mortgagor to require a surrender of the bond and mortgage when completing the payments, did not raise a presumption of bad faith. Van Keuren v. Corkins, 6 N. Y. Supreme Ct. Rep., 355. Page 115, Line 18, First column. Where a special warranty of title is exacted by the grantee under such circumstances as imply knowledge that the property was held in trust, the grantee is not an innocent purchaser, entitled to hold against the beneficiary of the grantor. When the grantee has knowledge that the grantor was a director in a corporation, at the time he became the purchaser of a railroad belonging to the corporation, at a judicial sale thereof, such grantees are put upon inquiry as to the character of the title to the road thus acquired by such director. The grantee in such a case is not an innocent purchaser. Covington, etc., v. Bowler, 9 Bush (Ky.), 470. Page 225, Line 29, Second column. A servant was driving his master's horse on a street of a city faster than was permitted by the ordinance; he and the horse were taken into custody by the police, by negligence the horse escaped and was killed: Held, that the city was not responsible for the negligence of the police. Elliott v. City of Philadelphia, 75 Penn. St. R., 347. Page 475, Line 5, Column 1. Although an infant may recover for an injury where his parent was guilty of negligence contributing to the injury, the parent cannot. Bellefontaine, etc., v. Snyder, 24 Ohio St., 670. Page 557, Line 28, Column 1, add: but see Fay v. Salem, etc., 111 Mass., 27. Page 557, Line 11, Column 2. A plea justifying the fouling of waters by chemicals used for the manufacture of paper must allege an user and acquiescence by the plaintiff, or those under whom he claims, for twenty years. Gladfeller v. Walker, 40 Maryland, 1; a very excellent case as to the rights of different riparian owners. Page 743, Line 40, Column 2. The testator gave his widow unlimited power to sell real estate by words, held not to create a precatory trust, and the widow during her lifetime sold a portion of the real estate and invested the proceeds in personal securities. Held, that in the absence of any directions as to the investment of the proceeds of sales, while giving her full power to sell, the testator must be taken to have intended to leave it to her discretion to convert the estate from real to personal, and vice versa, at her discretion; and that therefore the securities should be distributed as personal property. And if the proceeds of the sale of lands had been invested in other lands, the character of the former as ancestral estate would not pass to the latter. Bristol v. Austin, 40 Conn., 438. |