Oliver v. Parish

18 F. Cas. 673, 2 Wash. C. C. 462

Opinion

BY THE COURT.

If where the affidavit is positive, as in this case, the defendant, by a suggestion of circumstances to invalidate it, may examine the plaintiff upon interrogatories, there is an end of discretion, and the inquiry must be gone into, in every instance. The meaning of the rule is, that if, from the face of the affidavit itself, further satisfaction be deemed necessary, the court is not precluded from obtaining it, by examining the person who made the affidavit, merely because the debt is positively sworn to. This may be particularly proper, where the affidavit is made by some other person than the plaintiff himself. Rule discharged.