Case Name: Hunter's Lessee versus Kennedy
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1784-06
Citations: 1 Dall. 81
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hunter’s Lessee versus Kennedy.
Judges: 
Reporter: Dallas
Volume: 1
Pages: 81–81

Head Matter:
Hunter’s Lessee versus Kennedy.
ON motion to put off the trial of this cause, Sergeant tendered the affidavit of John Adams (who called himself the landlord of the defendant, and declared himself interested in the suit) to prove the absence of a material witness.
Lewis and Coxe objected, for the plaintiff,
that the affidavit should be made by the defendant himself.

Opinion:
But
the Court
received the affidavit, and ordered the trial off.