Case Name: Avery v. Woodruff
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1775
Citations: 1 Root 76
Docket Number: 
Parties: Avery v. Woodruff.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 76–76

Head Matter:
WINDHAM COUNTY,
ADJOURNED TERM, A. D. 1775.
Avery v. Woodruff.
The deposition of another who had a child sick that she could not leave it, admitted.

Opinion:
ActioN of trover.- Tbe deposition of a woman wbo lived within twenty miles of tbe court, tbat bad a child of a month old, dangerously sick so tbat tbe mother could not leave it to attend court, was taken, and objected against as not coming within tbe statute; but by tbe court, was admitted upon tbe ground tbat it came within tbe reason of tbe statute.