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48 Misc. 277

Risley v. Harlow

New York Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1905

New York Supreme Court · decided 1905-09-15

<p>Depositions — On commission — Suppression before trial — Motion t» suppress — Permitting amendment.</p> <p>Upon a motion to suppress a deposition because the commisskmer’s certificate is not attached and he did not subscribe his name to each exhibit and to each half sheet, the party on whose behalf the deposition was taken should be allowed to return it to the commissioner for amendment.</p>

Relies on Brown v. Clark

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Decided 1905-09-15

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1972

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Wright, J.

¶1The only objections not satisfactorily answered in the opposing papers are:—

¶2First, the allegation that the commissioner’s certificate is not attached to each deposition according to section 902 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

¶3Second, the allegation that the commissioner did not subscribe his name to each exhibit and to each half sheet of each deposition as required by section 901 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

¶4*278It is proper to allow depositions defective in formal requisites to be withdrawn from the files and amended by the respective officers taking them. Wallace v Byers, 38 S. W. Rep. 228. In Brown v. Clark, 41 N. H. 242, the proper practice was held to be the return of the whole deposition to the magistrate for a new certificate or proper amendment to be by him annexed to the deposition and directed to the court where it was to be used. See also 13 Cyc. 969, 970; 6 Ency. Pl. & Pr. 606; 16 Am. Dig. (Cent. ed.), 1186; Wells v. Hub Pub. Co., 12 Wkly Dig. 425; Keeler v. Vanderpool, 1 Code R. (N. S.) 289.

¶5I think, therefore, that the plaintiff should be allowed to return the commission and depositions to the commissioner for the purpose of amending them by signing his name to each half sheet of each deposition and to each exhibit, and also for the purpose of attaching his certificate to each of the depositions, according to sections 901 and 902 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

¶6An order may be prepared accordingly. Ten dollars costs are awarded to the defendants to be set off against the twenty dollars costs due the plaintiff from the defendants, as to which the defendants are in default on prior motions.

¶7If the plaintiff does not desire the° order above indicated, the motion is granted with ten dollars costs to be allowed as an offset against the twenty dollars costs above mentioned.

¶8Ordered accordingly.

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