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149 F. 204

Docket Nos. 61, 62.

Ward v. Ward

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided August 11, 1906.)

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1906-08-11

<p>.Equity — Rehearing—Newly Discovered Evidence.</p> <p>_ A party will not be given leave to file a bill of review and for a rehearingi on the ground of newly discovered evidence, where such evidence is hearsay or otherwise inadmissible.</p> <p>[Ed: Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 19, Equity, §§ 1091-1094.]</p>

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¶1.Equity — Rehearing—Newly Discovered Evidence.

¶2_ A party will not be given leave to file a bill of review and for a rehearingi on the ground of newly discovered evidence, where such evidence is hearsay or otherwise inadmissible.

¶3[Ed: Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 19, Equity, §§ 1091-1094.]

¶4.On Motion for Stay and for .Rehearing.

¶5For former opinion, see 145 Fed. 1023.

¶6■ Henry M. Ward and Austin G. Fox, for appellants.

¶7., Before WARRACE and TOWNSEND, Circuit Judges, and HORT, District Judge.

¶8PER CURIAM.

¶9The motion of the appellant to stay the entry of ;the decree affirming the decree of the Circuit Court and withhold the issuance of a mandate pending an application by the complainant to the Circuit Court for leave to file a bill of review and for a rehearing upon the ground of newly discovered evidence should be denied, if . for no other reason because the alleged, newly discovered evidence is ..merely hearsay testimony, and would be inadmissible if objected to, ,and entitled .to no weight if received without objection. The declaratidn of the deceased witness was not made in the course of the proceeding to which his agency extended, but was made many years after .his relation to the proceeding had terminated;

¶10Motion denied;

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