Luther v. The Merritt Hunt
This text of 15 F. Cas. 1119 (Luther v. The Merritt Hunt) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering District Court, D. Michigan primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
When fhis case was called for hearing, the counsel for libel-ants, to sustain their case, offered to read certain ex parte depositions taken at Green Bay, Wisconsin. To this objection was raised, that the depositions were inadmissible, because the provisions of the act of congress [1 Stat. 73] were not complied with.
That part of the judiciary act providing for the taking of ex parte depositions, has ever been construed strictly. The act requires, that the witnesses “shall be carefully examined and cautioned and sworn,” &c. The act requires that the witness shall be cautioned as well as sworn. It does not appear from the certificate of the officer before whom the deposition was taken, that this was done.
The objection is sustained, and the deposition rejected. The cause will be continued, to allow the libelant to retake the deposition.
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