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2 D.C. 253

Brown v. Piatt

Decided October 15, 1821

The plaintiff offered in evidence, a deposition, taken under the Act of Congress, and the magistrate certified that notice was not given to the defendant'Piatt, because he was not within 100 miles of the place of caption. objected that as the writ was issued against Piatt and two others, and the title of the suit in the deposition was Brown v. Piatt and two others, and as the two others were within 100 • miles, they ought to have been notified although they had not been…

Decided 1821-10-15

The Court,(Thruston, J., contra,)

¶1rejected the deposition.

¶2The plaintiff produced certain notes, purporting to be the notes of Piatt & Co., and a witness (Mr. Riggs) who testified that he had formerly been in possession of notes which were admitted by the defendant Piatt, to be genuine notes of Piatt & Co.; and that the notes now produced by the plaintiff are like those, and that he (the witness) believed them to be genuine.

¶3The Court did not consider this evidence as sufficient proof of the execution of the notes to permit them to be given in evidence to the jury.

¶4Mr. Jones objected to the deposition that the magistrate had not certified that he “ cautioned ” the witness; he had only stated that the witness was duly “ examined and solemnly affirmed,” &e., but the Court overruled the objection.

¶5Further evidence having been produced the Court permitted the notes to be read in evidence to the jury. They purported to be notes of Piatt & Company, for various sums of twenty dollars and upwards, amounting in the whole to f>3,404, payable to E. Hall or bearer, at their banking house in Cincinnati.

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