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SHERWOOD'S INDEX TO AND OUTLINE OF
MORRISON'S MINING REPORTS
by Don H. Sherwood of the
Denver Bar
GENERAL OUTLINE OF MORRISON'S
MINING REPORTS
This outline is organized by the subject categories into which Robert Stewart
Morrison divided and arranged his selected cases.
In his Preface to Volume 1 of his Mining Reports, at iii-iv, written while practicing law in Georgetown, Colorado, and dated November 21, 1882, Mr. Morrison said:
"This and the ensuing volumes of the set are intended to present not merely the leading, but the bulk or mass of the cases of importance, and not of mere local interest, bearing on the subject-matter of mines or mining, decided in the appellate courts of the several States and in the Federal courts. Also the leading irrigation cases and a large portion of the English mining decisions. Cases reported in nisi prius or inferior State courts have been in general rejected, as have been most decisions by divided benches.
The majority of the American decisions obviously come from the Pacific slope and those States of the East which contain the most noted mineral deposits, especially Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia; but the series contains cases from every State in the Union where a mining case could be found, from the mining Territories, and often from reports and magazines totally inaccessible except in the largest public libraries. * * * *
The entire opinion is given in every instance with statement of facts as full as that contained in the original report; in no instance has any portion of the opinion been omitted, so that the points of practice and other points not essential to the case as a mining case, are printed, and the substance indicated in the head notes as completely as in the original volumes, and as fully as the mining points involved.
The order of arrangement is alphabetical by subject. The leading case under each subject, where such case presented itself, has been printed first [indicated by asterisk in the outline below], and the others follow chronologically. Where there has been no case which could be fairly designated as leading, or more material than its fellows, they are printed strictly in the order of time as decided.
The last case under each heading is followed by a citation of those decisions bearing on the same topic, found under other headings in the series, as well as to numerous other cases bearing on the same subject, but which could not be specifically classed as mining cases."
In the subsequent Preface to Volume 17 of his Mining Reports, at iii, dated June 9, 1903, Mr. Morrison, by then practicing in Denver, said: "The sixteenth volume was printed in 1894. The present volume [Volume 17] contains cases prior to that date which had been omitted and new cases into 1895, to be followed by the decisions handed down in the following years to date of copyright. The only material change in the order of printing is that the cases in this [Volume 17] and succeeding volumes [18 through 22] follow chronologically under a specific head for each case instead of being grouped under topics as in the original issue.
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