Case ID: nh_63/html/0405-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Doe, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHESHIRE.
    Jenne v. Harrisville.
    Foreign unwritten law, including the prevailing construction of a foreign statute, may he proved by competent witnesses, and is a matter of fact determinable at the trial term.
    Case. The plaintiff is a citizen of Vermont, and questions were raised as to the law of that state.
    
      N. B. Bryant (of Massachusetts) (Lane 8f Bole with him), for the plaintiff,
    cited Gen. Sts. Vt., e. 72, s. 1, and c. 20; Poultney v. Glover, 23 Vt. 328 ; Brown v. Ramsay, 29 N. J. L. 117; Guild v. Guild, 15 Pick. 129; Cromwell v. Benjamin, 41 Barb. 558; Hillsborough v. Deering, 4 N. H. 86.
    
      Batchelder Faulkner, for the defendants,
    cited 2 Kent Com. 459; Sto. Conf. Laws, s. 101; Gen. Sts. Vt., c. 72, s. 1; Kelley v. Davis, 49 N. H. 187.
   Doe, C. J.

Foreign unwritten law, including the prevailing construction of a foreign statute, may be proved by competent witnesses, and is a matter of fact determinable at the trial term. Leach v. Pillsbury, 15 N. H. 137; Beach v. Workman, 20 N. H. 379; Watson v. Walker, 23 N. H. 471; Pickard v. Bailey, 26 N. H. 152 ; Holton v. Gleason, 26 N. H. 501; Emery v. Berry, 28 N. H. 485; Taylor v. Barron, 30 N. H. 100 ; Ferguson v. Clifford, 37 N. H. 87; Kennard v. Kennard [ante 303, 308] ; Dyer v. Smith, 12 Conn. 384; Holman v. King, 7 Met. 384; Kline v. Baker, 99 Mass. 253; 1 Gr. Ev., ss. 486, 488; Sto. Conf. Laws, ss. 637-639

Case discharged.

Carpenter, J., did not sit: the others concurred.