3 Johns. Ch. 627
Decided December 26, 1818
New York Court of Chancery · decided 1818-12-26
J. Emott, for the defendants, on an affidavit, stating that two witnesses were aged, and could not, without great trouble, inconvenience, and expense, be taken before the Master, who resided in a distant part of the state, as witnesses, on a reference pending before him, moved for leave to take their examinations before a Master, in the county where the witnesses resided.
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Decided 1818-12-26
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1907
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¶1The Court granted the motion ; and ordered, that these witnesses be examined before a Master in the county in which they reside, on interrogatories to be approved by *628the Master before whom the reference is pending, and on giving such notice as the said Master may direct; and that the defendants shall have liberty to use such examinations on the reference, saving all just exceptions.
¶2END OF THE CASES,