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The characters placed against the titles of cases are to signify changes made in preparing them. An asterisk means that the statement of facts given has been made up or condensed either from the reporter's statement, from the judge's opinion, or from both. The dagger (t) means that the reporter's statement of facts has been omitted. The double dagger (1) means that the case, as given, is reported only with reference to the point for which it is to be used, and that other points have been excluded. The briefs and arguments of counsel have been omitted in almost all the cases, without mention of them.

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Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on Municipal or Public Corporations

From the profusion of legal agencies which has come to exists and the increase in their activities, and especially from the contest over their constitutional position, a body of case-law has developed of an extent scarcely dreamed of by those who are not in close touch with the subject, and which is of great importance to the student. This work was undertaken about seven years ago as an endeavor to fill, in some measure, the urgent need for a book of cases upon the subject. In research, an endeavor has been made to read or consult all the reported decisions on the topics treated; and the vastness of the great maze of authorities, as well as the scarcity of good student's material among them, is almost beyond belief. Over three hundred and eighty cases were read or examined in making up the simple little section, consisting of four cases, on the establishment of a public easement (Ch. IV, § 1). The list of cases and the arrangement, as they finally here appear, have been gradually evolved during the last several years, from lists used and experimented with in the author's classes at Boston University Law School. A number of the cases which have been inserted were previously used, it will be found, in Judge Smith's collection of cases on Selected Topics in the Law of Municipal Corporations, which, I believe, is the only previous collection of cases on the subject; but this is due, not to any lack of research by the author, but to the nature of those cases as leading and eminent decisions which must necessarily be included in any case-book on the subject.

In the choosing of cases, those have been selected which seemed to present, in short sequences where possible, the most fundamental and basical principles. In this branch of the law - more it seems than in any other - there is danger of the students being left unable to comprehend the question involved in an important case because of the lack of a view-point from which to grasp it, which could have been shown to him by the use of some simple case (perhaps to the teacher seeming too simple) supplying the original and most elementary problem on the principle concerned.

An abridgment has been made of the opinions of judges where it has seemed advisable to cut out extraneous questions and to concentrate the discussion upon the principle to be brought out.

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