Case ID: johns_2/html/0294-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Norris against Beach.
    A witness who attended the court to prove a will, was arrested on his return home, by process out of the mayor’s court, and-this court, on motion, discharged him from the arrest. ■
    Griffin moved that the defendant be discharged from the arrest in this cause. He read an affidavit, stating that the defendaritxesided in the-state'of Connecticut, and had attended this court at the request of an executor and devisee of a will for the purpose of proving the will, to which he was a subscribing witness pursuant to the act; and that after he had given the requisite testimony, he was proceeding from court on his way home, when he was arrested at the suit of the plaintiff, on a writ issued out of the mayor’s court.
   Per Curiam.

We have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and when they do attend we are bound to protect them redeundo. Take your rule.

Rule granted.