Game Laws 



Co. vs. Lyman, 82 U. S.). The United States 

 courts also maintained purchaser's title to 

 marsh lands and enjoined trespassers from 

 shooting thereon in Chisholm vs. Caines (U. S. 

 Circuit Court of the 4th District). Thus, step 

 by step, the game laws of the land were sus- 

 tained, held to be constitutional and enforced. 

 The forms of defense which offenders deem 

 it righteous to make to game prosecutions are 

 without number, and as fraudulent as their 

 trade is wasteful. One instance will illustrate. 

 The writer, as counsel for the Society for the 

 Protection of Game, prosecuted one Clark, 

 a prominent poulterer in State street in Al- 

 bany, for having and offering for sale several 

 barrels of quail. The case was tried at Al- 

 bany, Hon. Amasa J. Parker appearing for 

 the defense. After the plaintiff's witnesses 

 had proved the possession of the birds, the 

 offering for sale as quail, and the handling 

 of several of them by the witnesses, the de- 

 fendant testified that these birds were not 

 quail at all, but were English snipe, and that 

 their bills were pared down and the birds were 

 thus sold as quail, as they brought a better 

 price, and that he frequently did so in his 

 trade. Probably no person in the court-room 



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