Case Name: BOND, FOR THE USE, &c. v. WARD
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1834-11
Citations: 1 Ohio Ch. 747
Docket Number: 
Parties: BOND, FOR THE USE, &c. v. WARD.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery Ohio
Volume: 1
Pages: 747–748

Head Matter:
BOND, FOR THE USE, &c. v. WARD.
Depositions — swearing witness — certificate—amendment—authentication. Depositions to be read must show the witness duly sworn.
If the certificate be insufficient, the magistrate cannot afterwards supply it.
If the deposition be taken out of the judicial circuit where used, it must be authenticated by evidence of the magistrates’ authority.
Depositions were taken in Madison county in 1832, before a justice. His certificate did not show that the witness was sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, &c. About a year afterwards, the justice made a new certificate, of the witness being duly sworn, &c. The depositions were without any authentication of the justice’s authority at the date of his last certificate than his own signature.
Olds,
excepted to the depositions.
Doan, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
We have just decided upon the necessity of the certificate of the oath being administered to the witness. We do not think the justice, having once spent his authority, has a right at a subsequent time, 'without notice, to supply the defects in the evidence of it by his own certificate. But these depositions are inadmissible, because they were taken out of this judicial circuit, and there is no evidence other than the justice's signature of his author ity t'o act. The statute expressly requires parol proof, or a certifícate of the clerk under the seal of the court, that the justice had authority to act at the time, when the deposition-is taken- out of the judicial circuit where used: (29- O. L. 126.)
The exceptions are allowed.