Case Name: CLOUD v. DAVIS
Court: Delaware Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1797-02
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 422
Docket Number: 
Parties: CLOUD v. DAVIS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 422–423

Head Matter:
CLOUD v. DAVIS.
Court of Common Pleas. New Castle.
February, 1797 (Adjourned).
Bayard’s Notebook, 175.
Bayard, for the defendant,
objected to the reading of the depositions on the ground that the rule gave no power to take them out of the state.
Vandyke
argued in favor of their admission and insisted that the manner in which they were taken was warranted by practice.

Opinion:
Chief Justice.
The practice has been invariably to issue a commission when the intention was to take depositions out of the state, unless in the cases where a special rule for the purpose was agreed to by the parties. A general rule to take depositions before any judge or justice of the peace is confined to the state. If the party designs under his rule to take depositions out of the state, he must have it so expressed in the rule. The depositions in the present case are not warranted by the rule under which they were taken and cannot therefore be read.
Per Curiam.
Depositions rejected.