Case Name: Vaughan versus Blanchard
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1792
Citations: 2 Dall. 192
Docket Number: 
Parties: Vaughan versus Blanchard.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 192–192

Head Matter:
Vaughan versus Blanchard.
HEATLY offered to read the return, on a commission to examine witnesses, in which it was certified, that the witnesses were duly sworn by a Justice of the Peace, and examined by the commissioners. Serjeant, objected, that the commissioners themselves should have administered the oath ; or that if administered by a Justice of the Peace, he should himself have certified the fact. But,

Opinion:
By the Court
:—It is not necessary that the commissioners should administer the oath themselves; and it is to be presumed, that it was administered in their presence.