McCrillis v. McCrillis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “‘ ‘ The form given in 'the statute for the certificate and caption of a deposition is to be regarded as a part of the law of the state governing the tailing of depositions. But it has never been regarded as necessary that this form should be literally and exactly followed, but that all it contains and requires should be substantially used and embraced in order to make a sufficient compliance with the law. And when it has been said that this mode of taking testimony was not favored, and that a strict compliance with the law would.be required in order to render it admissible, no more was meant, than that it should appear fairly and reasonably upon the. face of the certificate and caption, that it was taken for a cause recognized as sufficient by the statute, and that the proceedings for the taking were a substantial compliance with the requirements of the statutes on the subject #*#«*>>”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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