Case ID: cole-cai-cas_1/html/0501-01.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John M'Vickar v. Oliver Woolcot.
    
    HOPKINS, in consequence of the death of a witness to be examined on a commission sent to England, and sued out early in the last spring, moved, on behalf of the defendant, to amend by inserting the name of a new witness, who could prove the fact the testimony of the deceased would have gone to establish, or to be at liberty to issue a new commission.
   Per Curiam.

Were we to permit the amendment, the opposite party might lose the benefit of cross-examining ; for the interrogatories exhibited to one, might not be proper to administer to another, from whom it might be wished to extract new evidence. ° The first part of the motion must, therefore, be denied ; but you may take a new commission at your peril, without, however, any stay of proceedings on the partrof the plaintiff.