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

Sherman v. Sherman.
    A witness who has received communications from the party under an engagement to secrecy, except in case of an attorney, is obliged to testify all he knows when called as a witness.
   PetitioN for a divorce, for tlie cause of adultery. Doctor Ives was produced as a witness on, tbe part of the petitioner, and was objected against, because all he could testify came to his knowledge in confidence, and under obligation of secrecy. The objection was judged to be insufficient. See Mills v. Griswold, Litchfield January Term, A. D. 1792.