Case Name: Fairbanks v. Fairbanks
Court: New York Court of Chancery
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1834-08-11
Citations: 2 Edw. Ch. 208
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fairbanks v. Fairbanks.
Judges: 
Reporter: Edwards' Chancery Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 208–208

Head Matter:
Fairbanks v. Fairbanks.
August 11. 1834.
In divorce cases, the original testimony taken before a master is to be filed with his report and the court will not be satisfied with a copy.

Opinion:
This was a case of divorce; where there had been a reference to a master and he had returned-a copy of the testimony with his report. The Vice-Chancellor wished it to be understood that in future, he should require the original depositions, taken before masters, in divorce cases, to be an-to the report and filed in the clerk's office: for, although they were, no doubt, always preserved by the masters, yet they would be safer upon the files of the court and be then readily got at in case of any false swearing.