Case Name: Leiper & Co. v. Bickley et al.
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 29
Docket Number: 
Parties: Leiper & Co. v. Bickley et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 29–29

Head Matter:
Leiper & Co. v. Bickley et al.
Notice of tlie time and place of taking a deposition, given to the attorney-at-law of the opposite party, is sufficient; and one hour’s notice, when the party lives in the same village or town, is reasonable notice, unless special circumstances should be shown to render it unreasonable.
On the trial of this cause a deposition de bene esse was offered by the plaintiffs.
Mr. Faw, for the defendants,
objected,
1. That notice was not given to the other party, but to his attorney at law, and that such notice is not good. Buckner, one of the defendants, was a resident of the town of Alexandria, where the deposition was taken, but was out of town at the time, and his house shut up.
2. That the notice was not reasonable, being only one hour before the time of taking the deposition.

Opinion:
But the Court
was of opinion that the notice to the attorney in such cases is good, and that in this case an hour's notice was sufficient, unless special circumstances should be shown to render it unreasonable.