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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. the proximate cause of his death, where he is subsequently run over and killed by an engine belonging to another company which the first company knew had a right to use the track and was likely to use it at any time. CONTRACTS -VALIDITY-PUBLIC POLICY.-A contract by the publisher of a newspaper to use it in influencing the choice of delegates and the action of a convention in favor of a certain candidate for public office is held, in Livingston v. Page (Vt.), 59 L. R. A. 336, to be void as contrary to public policy. Perhaps the deliverance of the court would have been more emphatic had it known of the "Barksdale Bill" recently enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia. INSURANCE-VERBAL ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICY.-A verbal assignment of a policy of life insurance by the insured, accompanied by words indicating an intention to give and by a delivery of, the policy, is held, in Steele v. Gatlin (Ga.), 59 L. R. A. 129, not to constitute a complete gift; and in such case it is held that a court of equity will not interfere at the instance of the alleged donee to complete the gift, when she has not acted to her injury or incurred expense on the faith of it. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-RESIDENT AGENTS FOR FOREIGN INSURANCE COM-PANIES.-Confining the right to act as agent for foreign insurance companies to residents of the State is held, in Cook v. Howvland (Vt.), 59 L. R. A. 338, not to be an unconstitutional impairment of the privileges and immunities of citizens of other States. We question the correctness of this ruling. If it is sound it comes very near the dead line laid down by recent Federal decisions. ACCIDENT INSURANCE-DOUBLE INDEMNITY. -A railroad paymaster traveling upon business of the company from station to station, and stopping between stations for the purpose of paying off employees wherever they may be, is held in Travelers Ins. Co. v. Austin (Ga.), 59 L. R. A. 107, not to be, while so doing, a '(passenger" within the meaning of a policy of accident insurance granting double indemnity to the insured if injured while riding as a passenger on a passenger car using steam as a motive power.