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Case No. 4,935.
FOREMAN v. HOLMEAD.
[5 Cranch, C. C. 162.]1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
March Term, 1837.
DEPOSITIONS.
A deposition cannot, under the act of congress, be taken before a judge of the city court of the city of Lexington, in Kentucky.
Mr. Redin, for plaintiff, offered to read a deposition taken before the judge of the city court of the city of Lexington, in, Kentucky.
Mr. Brent, for defendant, objected that the judge was not such a judge or chief magistrate as is described in the 30th section of the judiciary act of 1789 (1 Stat. 73); and—
THE COURT (MORSELL, Circuit Judge, absent) refused to suffer it to be read.
1 [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
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