Judge Rumsey, of the New York State courts, has decided in favor of Messrs. Spaulding for $993.25 and W. S. Little for $942.45, with near two years' interest since the suits were begun, against the Merchant's Dispatch Company. Spaulding's trees were three weeks from Rochester to Vinton, Iowa.

These decisions seem like being advantageous to nurserymen, and yet they lead to harassing regulations on the part of companies that often make it almost impossible to do business at all. It is best for all parties, that mutual understandings and preliminary contracts and engagements should supersede law. These suggestions are made without a knowledge of the exact facts in these cases, which no doubt made legal proceedings a necessity.