Case ID: barb-ch_1/html/0074-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Chancellor", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Banks and others vs. Walker and others.
    The affidavit of merits, in a mortgage case, under the 91st rule, need not be made by the defendant himself. It is sufficient if it be made by his solicitor.
    This was a mortgage case of the fourth class.
    
      W. N. Sears, for the complainants, claimed that it was entitled to a preference over other causes of the same class, on the ground that there had been no valid affidavit of merits filed, as required by the 91st rule. An affidavit had been filed; but it was not made by the defendant himself, but by his solicitor,
    
      J. R. Whiting, for the defendant, insisted that it was not necessary the affidavit should be made by the defendant; but that it was sufficient if made by his solicitor, who frequently knew more about the facts than the party himself.
   The Chancellor

decided that the affidavit was sufficient, to prevent the cause from being taken up out of its order upon the calendar.