Case ID: johns_1/html/0520-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Perry against Weyman.
    if the justice acause iTtried is sworn as a witness, and the oath he administered to him by another justice, it is illegal.
    ON certiorari, from a justice’s court. The errors as? signed were 1. That the justice refused to admit evidence of Pa)’meiit, on the part of the defendant below. 2. That the justice before whom the cause was tried, was sworn by . . . . another justice, as witness m the cause.
    
      Weston for the plaintiff in error, - 1
    . Foot, contra.
   Per curiam.

The act is positive that the justice, or court, that is, the justice before whom the cause is tried, must administer the oath to the witnesses. The oath administered by the other justice was extra-judicial, and improper.

Judgment reversed.