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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Town of Killingsworth v. Town of Goshen.
    Depositions taken within twenty miles of a known attorney to the adverse party without notifying him, although the adverse party lives more than twenty miles oft — not admitted.
    AotioN of assumpsit for disbursements and expenditures for tbe support of one Sarab Carter, a pauper, alleged to belong to the town of Goshen. Plea — Nonassumpsit. Issue to tbe jury.
   John Allen, Esq. attomey-at-law at Litchfield and attorney to tbe plaintiffs, lived witbin six miles of Goshen, of wbicb tbe defendants were informed and who notified said Allen to attend at tbe taking of them depositions; afterwards the defendants took supplementary depositions of some of tbe same witnesses, and also of other witnesses without notifying said Allen — wbicb depositions were objected to because said Allen was not notified, and by tbe court not admitted. See Williams v. Fitch, Windham September Term, A. D. 1791.